ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1783, 8 April 1920, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY'S.

"WHEN A WOMAN SINS."

A woman's untamed impulses) pitted against a young divinity student's stern rules of conduct form the story of "When a Woman Sins," the Thccht Barn superproduotipn, which, with Thcda Bara as the star, will lio the chief attraction at Everybody's Theatre for the next three nights. The woman, Poppea,. had, through an unjust accusation, become a notorious wanton. Admirers flitted about her like moths, but she stripped them of their wealth and then flung them away. At last she meets a young divinity student, and. upon his stern character her charms beat in vain. She loves him wildly, and finally, in despair, she is about to attempt suicide when he sends her a messago of forgiveness and love wrapped up in a bunch of lilies. A Sunshine comedy u'nd topical will also bo shown.'

PALACE

In "Choosing a Wife,'" which is an English production and is an adaptation of a stage play, "Tlie Elder Miss Blossom," the theme cannot fail to interest any audience, for it is the pathetic story of a sweet and reliued woman's tragic mistake as to a man's matrimonial intentions. Dolly Blossom lias reached middloago unmarried, because when the opportunity came to her she let it pass in order to care for a little motherless niece. The latter, Barbara, is grown up when the play opens, and at a dance aunt and niece make the acquaintance of Andrew Quick, an explorer, of ripe years, who is about to set out for Africa. Quick falls in love with the niece, whose name, from a handkerchief he picks up, he believes to be Dolly, and on leaving he confides in the aunt'that, old bachelor as ho is, he has fallen a victim to a woman's fascination. The aunt accepts the compliment as intended for herself, and when Inter a proposal of marriage arrives by letter addressed to Miss Dolly Blossom, she accepts and prepares for the wedding, which is to take place on the explorer's return. Quick's amazement when he learns the true state of affairs is only equalled by the pitiful position of the stricken woman. With splendid dignity she releases him from the engagement. Realising the nobility and fineness of her character, Quick offers to marry her, but she refuses to lie an object of pity. The close of the picture dmws that the wedding bells have not been rung in vain.

KOSY. "THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR COUNTERFEITING PLOT." "The Five Million Dollar Counterfeiting Plot" was produced under tho personal J supervision of William J. Burns, and it | portrays every incident in the most, colossal conspiracy ever frumed against the , United States 'Government. This case is known in the historv of the Secret, Service as the Philadelphia-Lancaster Counterfeiting Mystery," ami the entire story is reproduced from beginning to end with all of its swift-moving drama and romance. In this picture Mr Burns reveals all the mechanical secrets by which the most in-1 -onions hand of counterfeiters in America ,'ndeavonved to defraud the United States ■ Government of five million dollars. ilq shows' for the first time the printing, (lie engraving; and the l.ill-splittin» plants of the counterfeiters. Woven into the highly thrilling drama is the pwjuiwte.■ romance of the daughter of one of tho oountoifotiers, who fell in loyp with, a Bums detective. Her rounneiation 6l Ins love, find the final reconciliation when her father has broken down and confessed, gives a beautiful touch of sentiment to tho gripping

• Charles Ray in "Bill Henry, a 1 rjauiount picture, will a\°o he shown, ■ with chapter 7 of '"lke Lightning Hauler.