OPERA HOUSE PICTURES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13395, 1 June 1914, Page 4

OPERA HOUSE PICTURES.

„ The Opera House whs packed on Saturday evening with a delighted audience. The music was .splendid, and gdss ft long way to make the entertainment enjoyable- The programme opened with a delightful scenic, ••"Sicilian Cities." There is another sceijiu> most beautifully colored, "Grenoble, to Aix Le ..Bains'" The <.-»r«?ot, ■Steel' Ream" js piie ojf Edison's powerful, -lensatioijaj;- yet w?t!)al human dramas, of deepest inter'«s}>/ . The J^p-st edition of • PaUi^s Qa/ette shows' the, % best he\vs/ and, fashions froiyi' .-'J?nTis.'' "Bupny for/ fche Cause"- is one of'.-\Vijt.a-graph\s best comedies. . Whenever/ &jr Bunny : finds himself corifrontecl , by a difficult problem, whether it be m "business or other methods," he ! j^es ■to , his wife vfiih it, ami gets her to , help . him out.' He does^ not', realise, to what an extent Ire is ,in|[eibte«..£o iier, tor advice, arifl /thinks, that, his., success is due entirely, to his own efforts! .. When. Mrs' Bunny .'shows -him ari invitation she has received to join a woman suffrage club, he is very indfgnajjt, a'n4 annpunpes pompously that women hayo not brains enough to vote,, and tells his wife tfyit on no account will he permit her, to have anything to doVSvith tl^e movement. Bvtniiy comes home , to find \ a suffrage meeting, m liis house, and raises quite a rumpus about it, but he has to go away to a. meeting of, the "fat men's" qlub, where hp listens with approval to an f anti-«nffrfl^e, fcupaker. After .the meeting he, is invited) {(> spoak ojj. local charities at the nqit meeting, and rejtijrns home to prepare , his speech, Accustomed its ho is to asking his wife's advice, jio is very disgruntled , when «ho refuses to help: him, telling him that as women have not brains enough .to- vote,t they v&vinoU therefore, help luWlo prop'aro aspeech. • By the end of the week he is m despair, "and has made.no progress .whatsoever. His wife offers to help him on condition tha-t he will, help her receive at the suffrage club that night. Bunny consents, and his wife gets things m slxape for hinv A,t the meeting of the suffrage club, Bunny is delighted withuthe pretty women lip meets, find becomes enthusiastjc, agreeing to march with; the delegates from /Manhattan,, at the. parade m 'tyashington. In. the parade he proudly, carries a suffrage banner, greatly, to; the amusement of the members of the "fat men's", club, who $a&niO|i fluite understand his sudden > coin? version lo .the. "cause." The. rejnainser of the s^pjes is of aij exceptionally high order, an<ii wij}. W> \ Repeated ngain tins evening. „,.■..,.. ,,... j,,,,,-,*^,,-,., ■