ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1845, 21 June 1920, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“THE LUCK OF THE NAVY.” At the Opera House tonight, the Allan Wilkie Company will present the, great naval drama, “The Luck of the Navy,” which is fresh from a triumphant run of nearly two years in London, and is drawing packed attendances at the Manhattan Opera House in New York. central figure is the .commander of a British submarine, who finds himself in a nest of Hun spies in England. Excitement runs high throughout the play, and in the final act the interest of the audience is worked up to the highest pitch, and one of the most thrilling denouements imaginable is reached. Mr Wilkie appears us the commander of the British submarine, Miss Frediswyde Hunter-Watts as his fiancee (Cynthia Eden), and Mr ,T. Castle Morris (lute of the J. C. Williamson Company) as the pseudo-Belgian colonel. The piece will he staged on an elaborate scale, and special scenery has I been prepared from photos of the original I London production. '1 he box plan is open I daily at Oates’ music store.

PALACE

UNA CAVAUERI IN “LOVE’S CONQUEST.” [n “Love’s Conquest,” the superb Paramount picture starling Lina Cuvaiieri, which will be screened at- the Palace Theatre for the next three nights, there are many mob scenes of unusual magnitude. In one scene especially, that in which Gismonda is implored by the populace to keep her vou to wed the man who saved her child from death under the lion’s claws, several thousand men and women are employed. She was proud—-of noble blood. She had sworn to marry the man who saved hei child from the lions. But when the man appeared leading her boy by the hand, she saw that ho was neither rich nor noble, and she broke her oath. But magnificent manhood armed with courage and resource is not to lie denied. I low lie won his noble bride is told in thrilling seems in “Love’s Conquest.” A Mack Sennett comedy and Topical will also bo shown. KOSY.

“THIS HERO STUFF.’

As a man wears out Ids welcome, so wel come may wear out a man. That's what William Bussed found in “This Hero Stuff,” when he returned, a war-scanvd warrior, to meet the adulation of the public tint was heaped upon iiim at every turn. Sick of being fussed over, he decided to play the coward to drive away the admirers. This was quite successful until the one girl carnc along and taunted him with his supposed yellow streak. 'J he girl happens to be the delectable Mary Thurman, and we should think that any ordinary man would delight in being a hero to please Mary. Anyway Bill does that to rhino in his lady’s eyes, it’s up to him to regain Ids lost reputation, and in collecting together the remnants to piece, together again, be puis up some hue exhibitions of fisticuffs. It’s bright comedy all through, with a special appeal to all soldiers. The Gaurmvnt special, “The Prince m Canada,!-’ is ‘well worth the boom it is' getting. The film shows the whole of the tour from the timelie hates the King .md Queen at Portsmouth till he departs from the land of the maple. The cowboy sports and aquatic sports are particularly interesting—wonderful photography for out-door scenes make this u noteworthy film.

EVERYBODY’S,

“JOSSELYN’S WIFE” Bessie Barriscale’s latest picture, cm titled "Josselyn’s Wife,” appearing at Everybody’s Theatre to-night, is an adapts- ( u’on of Kathleen Norris’s book of the same name. It has for its central character a j, charming young wife whose husband is an j artist. Gibbs Josselyn, as ho is known, takes his bride to Europe a.s he does not look favourably on Lis new stepmother. After a lapse of years, he brings his family back homo, where a reconciliation is effected. It is then that he notices the woman lie formally fi owned upon is decidedly attractive Events occur whiclj place the philanderers on a communion vff' understanding, and the estrangement treat is springing up between Gibbs and his wife. Ellen, seems readv to be effected any day., Mow the husband is caught in a. trap.ihuu moans Ids imprisonment for murder.' bon* the, future looms up dreadfully black for Ellen, how (ho tender appeal of the liltVboy, collided with his confession of t'n>e crime, enacted in all innocent*} risr/d things eventually, are events tHat arc tjcj.d absorbingly on the screen.

LONG DISTANCE PIANO PLAYING

A somewhat novo) feat of .'iidurniice v.till ho attempted at Rvervbodv’s Theatre, during sliow week, when Mir Albert Stool will ctn(loavour to inoroaso the record for er-oi-tinuoua playing at. the piano, '('he phi do conditions arc that the player most, n-ot take Ids fingers oil the kovbivird of tlw Piano oi slop playug. Ho, may sit, stand', or recline in the attitude ho may chose,, but his fingers must contm'ually keep in playing. What good purposi- is served by the accomplishment of the task it would bo hard to find, unless i(. ests blishes exactly how long a man may carVy on any one action without any sloop The player is fed while at his work, and 'has his arms and fingers massaged consistrmly, as Mr Steele assures our reporter that it is the fingers that any trouble (if any) will occur to prevent him from carrying l ont his ambition. Mr Steele says; “That, loss of sleep after the first night does mV L . trouble me, but it gets monotonous just, before dawn.” There will he a visitors' boo): in wlu'ch any patfon •may sign his name, and tho‘hour at which ] he called, and a committee has boon formed to see that (he conditions of the piano marathon are being faithfully carried out. Mr Steele commences playing at 7.45 t.n 1 uesday evening, and will endeavour to keep on till Saturday night at 11 o’clock, which, if accomplished, will give a margin ol 2,j hours in his favour.