Entertainments.

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13522, 5 October 1916, Page 6

Entertainments.

KOSY THEATBE. "EMMY OP THE STOEK'SNEST." Big houses should be attracted to tne Kosy Theatre at all sessions today, when the new programme will be submitted. The chief item is a drama called "Emmy of Stork's Nest," whicn is adapted from the novel by J. Breckenbridge Ellis. The picture version of the story is true to the original, and is presented in a manner worthy of the best traditions of the popular "Metro" Company. Miss Mary Miles Minter, who is generally credited with being the most popular of the "Metro" actresses, takes the name part, which she suits admirably. The film, which occupies five reels, is original and romantic in conception, and tells an exceedingly interesting story. Some very beautiful mountain scenery is introduced as a background for the picture, and most of the action takes part in the backwards of Northern America. Amongst the supporting films will be found "Trey o' Hearts" No. 7, in wnich we find the. principal characters in an entire change of scene. "The Nation's Pood—Fish" is'a film out of the ordinary. It deals with the life of a trawler from the leaving of the vessel to the marketing of the catch, and includes a good view of the steam trawler in a tempestuous sea being protected by. Britain's bulldoes. The other subjects include a war topical "Home on Leave," and a £Bod juvenile comedy "The Comeback of Percy." This should be a programme worth seeing.

SUBMARINE PICTURES. The value of cinematography in the pursuit of scientific knowledge and investigation is incalculable a fact which has been impressed on the minds of people throughout the world who have witnessed the remarkable suomarine pictures which are to be presented by Messrs W. and F. Williams at the Kosy Theatre on Monday next. What lies and lives beneath the mighty ocean is faithfully and realistically unfolded by means of this pictorial record of a hundredmile journey under the ocean, and no longer does the sea withhold its secrets. The Williamson Bros., the inventors and originators of submarine pictures, have by means of a specially constructed device been able to take active moving pictures of the underwater world, including scenes of marine forests and beautiful submarine gardens which excel in grandeur a tropical landscape. Natives diving and recovering coins from the ocean bottom are clearly and distinctly viewed, and a magnificent sunset effect under the water baffles description, and a fight between man and shark is enacted within a few feet of the under-water camera.

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. /'JEALOUSY,""OB "THE GREEN BWAMBif' A story of matrimonial misunderstanding brought about by jealousy■ w the latest Triangle play to head the bill at Everybody's to-day. Bessie Barriscale, whose acting in J. he Golden Claw" and "Bullets and Brown Eyes" has made her such a favourite with picture lovers, is the woman who has a passion for suspecting her husband and who thereby •nearly brings herself life-long misery, during an interval in the production of "The Green Swamp," Miss Barriscale said to an interviewer:— 'I am getting more and more concerned about the story that is to be told and the story's message. As far as X am concerned, I want my plays to. say something to men and women; I want them to count as an influence in other lives. To me there is a great responsibility in,the making of a photo-play. The good picture roaches an audience of millions. It ought to cany a great message of thought and happiness when it does of young love, dpesgipg up and curlycurls, and now demands the story with 4he punch and the actor who can deliver it." The supports chosen are in every way excellent, A niost interesting picture Is "Physical Education," taken by the remarkable Pathe slow photography. A bright Vitagraph comedy; official war pictures, showing the activities of the Royal Flying Corps and views of Niagara Falls; and the "Pathe Gazette," complete a strong programme. As special added attractions two other features will be included in "The Offending Kiss" (Vitagraph comedy), and a riotous Keystone Triangle comedy "The Great Pearl Tangle." The times of screening are advertised elsewhere.

PALACE THEATRE. "THE EXPLORER." From African jungle to the glitter of London lights if a far cry, but the ingenuity of one of the most powerful of modern playwrights, William Somerset Maugham, contrives to make a telling use of this very feature in "The Bxploror," the Paramount film now showing at the Palace. The film was a very costly one to produce, and the result is a triumpn of richness of effect and power of plot. The leading character is Lou Tellegen, who has been in the lead with no less a star than Sarah Bernhardt. The leading lady, Dorothy Davenport, is exquisite, and a fitting associate of the lordly company of Famous Players. The supporting programme includes good fare in a London Film Corporation Drama, "The Two Columbines," and a laughably clever Bray Cartoon, "Haddem Bad's Elopement." The management announces that tho prices are as usual.

SKATING RINK. The attendance at the Rink is still keeping up to the mark and by advertisement on page .1 of this issue the proprietary announce novel features for' Saturday night in the shape of a Ladies' Half-mile Handicap and a Gents' Half-mile Handicap. Judging by the interest displayed in these events and the keen finishes of the previous racos, a goodly number of entries can bo relied upon. The much-talked-of Carnival is now near at hand and next Wednesday and Thursday should.,see "something doing" at tne Rink. •'• It is also anounced that during Sh6w Week the proprietary

ere putting on a "hard-up" Carnival, which should prove entertaining both to Paimerstonites and visitors to the town during th 3 Show period. ,