Entertainments.

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13763, 17 December 1917, Page 7

Entertainments.

PALACE. OLIVE THOMAS IN “ MADCAP MADGE. ’ ’ “Madcap Madge,” the new Triangle play starring Olive Thomas, the “Follies” beauty, was written by R. Cecil Smith and produced under the supervision of Thomas H. luce.

Tli© Flower family owns two daugliters —Julia, who has not landed after six strenuous seasons, and Madge, the ‘ * Madcap, ’ ’ who is still at school. Mrs Flower reads an announcement in the papers that the Earl of Larisdalc is seeking his health at Palm Beach incognito. Here is the chance of Julia to annex the title as well as the ancestral estates. So mother and daughter leave for the resort, leaving Madge at the finishing school. This does not suit Madge, who, after a scries of escapades, is expelled and joins her mother and sister at Palm Beach, much to their discomfiture. Madge shows that she is rightly christened ‘ ‘ Madcap, ’ ’ as is seen in the events that follow their sudden arrival, for she puts the fashionable Palm Beach colony in a tumult and drives her mother into hysterics.

A vaudeville act entitled “A Welsh Rarebit and the Dainty Girl,” will be staged by Jones and Raine, two clever artists direct from Puller’s circuit. This should prove a more than usually good programme.

KOSY. MARY MILES MINTER IN “ PERIWINKLE.” Here is what an American critic says of “Periwinkle,” this dainty actress’s last appearance: "In every respect this latest Mary Miles Minter picture is the best production featuring this young star that America has offered so far. In this picture Miss Minter’s charm of personality and genuine acting ability have the .advantage of a plausible, interesting story, with the strength of real life in it, and the fascinating background of the sea to add a pleasing flavour of romance. The photography and lighting effects of the exteniors arc beautiful, and the interiors, the lifesaving station, and the homes of the sea-faring folk are interesting.”

“Periwinkle” is the name given a baby girl whom a lifeguard finds in a wreck, and as Periwinkle grows up she radiates such sunshine that she is finally able to redeem a very blase young man and make him a useful citizen. In these words you have a synopsis of the latest story which Mary Miles Minter Charmingly enacts, and for which she has been given human and material surroundings of fidelity and believable conduct through her scenes by James Kirkwood. George Fisher plays the young man whom Periwinkle redeems. Chapter 16 of “ The Iron Claw ’ ’ and a topical will also be shown.