ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1680, 20 November 1919, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

KM LI. IF. POLINI AGAIN. TO-NIGHT AT THE OPERA HOUSE. That brilliant' voting English actress who so entranced Palmerston North audiences on Friday last with her performance in “Eves of Youth.” is- to appear at the Opera House this evening m a thrilling drama .if mystery. “Do Luxe Annie, when she will be supported by J. ami N. I “'I new dramatic company. Ihe play ollf -‘ of those cleverly constructed dctec ue m mystery stories, the real plot of which is mJt disclosed till the hnal incidents with which the second and third ucts almuntl keep the audience m the d.iik t 11, as with the sudden switching on of all lights, tlm whole solution is sk.Uully presented ... IL space of three or four minutes. Ihe author, bv an intricate arrangement of the plot has "invested his criminal drama with ,n air of mystery which is baffling and perplexing, so many facts and conflicting occurrences being hurled m (puck succession that the audience is soon in a state of complete hewildcrmcnt. there are hints,,t a second story in the background,, hut it ls llo t revealed until a surprising denouement is reached. The psychological propi,.,,! is that of the beautiful young wife of chief of police, who, through an mjuiy tl) l„-r head, has her whole past blotted out. including the memory of her husband child, and becomes so criminal in in stiiK-t as to allow herself to be the ready ~d rcSurcoful accomplice of a notorious gentleman blackmailer. The story bcgi • m.ul ends in a Pullman car, where a doctoi L hi" fellow travellers the mysterious ;«N'rtl» l .A ..ml ,1... t,l-iv is a picturisatioii of bis stoiy. Novel settings, including the exact repr ■ for which is now avuilubli at store.

everybody^. “’nil-; blindness of divorce.' ‘“gw-inning wives and husbands has beas common as swapping horses in mu country,” declared Sumv.no Court Jus u i-’n-derick K. Crane, ot Bioulujn York) 1 from the bench. “Marriage ist . thing there is under our laws he s.iVl “Mair.v one day and come back the ,„-xt (hiv ami get divorced. L.he dangers / shown in the wow-di-Hu,°photodrania of to-day “The Blinducas of Divorce,” which will oc shown at l,\c } body’s Theatre to-night and tor Urn rest of this week with a comedy and topical.

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WITV STEWART IN “A MIDNIGHT ' ‘ ROMANCE.”

\n expose of the methods and practices bv which criminal intelligence siefs, “frames," and lands its prey among the Ms ial sets, ami the part that hotel employees often innocently play in the puftis o. tie. ullra-crooks for lauding big game, is inane in “A Midnight Romance, the second ql iho series ol special features-starring vehicles for Anita Stewart, to he shown at the Palace Theatre, beginning with 10-mght s KTeoning. Anita Stewart plays the part < a. mysterious beauty, one of the. survivors ol a sliipwreck. who, in spite of her cl arm. claims to he hut a common errant. Supping away from the hotel late (ne right she"moots wealthy Roger Sloan y 1 lie enjoying a lone dip in the surf. Hieu she disappears. He finds her again at his rolei, ■lad in shimmering silks. 1 hen the tvuible •tarts, wideli makes tbe film so interesting. V Bathe Educational and Gazette will also at shown. KOSY. “THE CO-RESPONDENT. ’ “The Co-Respondent” is pictnriscd from the play of (he same mime by Alice Leal Bollock, and is produced by Ralph W. Inee. The picture tells a thrilling story of Inland has a universal appeal, and should attract patronage from all classes of pidnic patrons in all suctions ol tno country. * * u ‘ Co-Respondent” was one of the brilliant successes in America, its season at the Broa.de a v Theatre, New York, bring memorable for its box other, returns, lie appealing character to whom Maine Hi.rnrnerstein adds her own natural D.i.rieness is that of a girl, agonisingly placed at the mercy of an outraged wife and an unscrupulous husband, while duty insists on ■nidi exposure of tier curious misfortune as love will never tolerate. In .ultHti-m there, is being shown «in episode of Ino Fighting Trail” and a Sunshine comedy.