Entertainment?

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 1372868, 15 September 1917, Page 6

Entertainment?

KOSY. A sorrowful little heiress and a whole-souled manly student are the two principal characters in “Happiness.” They are taken by Enid Bennett and Charles Gunn, who are both perfect, but honours must also be given to little Thelma Salter, who is the cherub of the piece, bringing love and happiness to the other two. Two lively, comedies, a topical and scenes are included in this programme. T -j EVERYBODY’S. A trusting faith is totally betrayed in “When Love was Blind,” when the heroine tells her fiancee of her former life with a lover. He turns coldly from her, refusing to admit her explanation. This picture will be shown at Everybody's to-night with “Peg o’ the Ring’* anti a topical. PALACE. To-day at the 2 o ’clock matinee and again twice in the evening sessions “The Iron Woman” will be shown at the Palace. Nance O’Neil, the wellknown actress who toured the Dominion a few years back, takes the big part. “Peg o’ the Ring” will bo shown at the day sessions.

HAMILTON HODGES’ CONCERT. Wednesday next will bo a memorable day in Palmerston North, when the talented party of Wellington artists organised by Mr Hamilton Hodges will give a grand musical concert in aid of the Stock Baby, No. 21. The artists comprising the party are all of outstanding merit, and can bo depended upon to please the audience. Amongst Mr Hodges items will be that latest song, “A Big Lot of Sunshine Coming Soon,” In, the fortnight after Mr Hodgc s first sang this in Wellington, 1100 copies w'ere sold, and is still selling freely. Miss Teresa McEnroe and Miss Segricf are both warm favourites with tho local public and their reappearance is anxiously awaited by all lovers of music. Signor A. P. Truda is a flautist who has not yet appeared in Palmerston North, but has been received with tumultous applause by largo audience in other centres. Mr Crawford is an elocutionist of whom nothing need be written, as he established himself when ho performed here last year. The accompaniost is Mrs E. W. Qucree, and this lady can be depended upon to carry out her duties in her usual able manner. Tho box plan opens at Andrew Millar’s this (Saturday) morning, and as tickets have been soiling rapidly intending patrons arc requested to book early. Popular prices will be charged and the proceeds help to swell the funds of tho Stock Baby, No. 21.

“THE BIRTH OF A NATION.” Among the fathers of America lived a poet leader who dreamed a now vision of humanity—that out of the conflicting interests and character of I.‘! State's, stretching their territories from the forests of the* North to the tropic jungles of Florida, there could be built one might people. For eighty years this vision remained a dream —sectionalism and disunity the grimmest realities of American life. Until Lincoln’s day the right of each State to peaceful secession was scarcely disputed, North or South. New England had more than once threatened to withdraw long before South Carolina in tier Wind rage led the way. Within hud grown into a living soul and in the mortal agony of four years of Civil War and eight years of more horrible Reconstruction, a Nation was born.