AMUSEMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13992, 30 August 1909, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

SHERWOOD'S PICTUIIES. Sherwood's Picture Company will reopen at the Theatre Royal to-night with an excellent programme of new pictures which should attract a large audience. Some of the '"star" films to bc-shown are Magic Drawing Room, Brooklyn Bridge, His One Friend, Ancient Rome, Waif and Statue, Dick Turpin, Burglar and the Girl, Father's Derby Tip, Cello. Player, The Hen that Laid the Golden Egg, Mysterious Cab, India and Ceylon, Swiss Peasants, and a host of other attractive subjects. At intervals between the pictures some comic items will be given, and the programme will conclude with a mirthprovoking pne act. comedy (in which Professor Sherwood will take part). Seats may be booked at Kingston s confectionery without extra cost. TIMA.RU CATHOLIC CLUB. The comedy " My Lord in Livery," which forms the second part of a vocal and dramatic entertainment to be given in the Assembly' Rooms to-night under the auspices of the above Club, tells of a scene that was enacted in the residence of Sir 'George Amberley outside London. His daughter Sybl together with Rose and Laura arc shocked at the former receiving a letter that informs Jier that a nobleman would come aijl make love to her and obtain a ring (rum her and to prevent him from doing this they decide to play the part of servants. Hopkins, .the new footman, arrives that day a little while before the nobleman (Lord Thirlmere). The latter attempts to buy the ti/rmiT's .situation, which with the a:d of 10 sovereigns he' succeeds iu d ung. in going to their room they are espied by Robert who informs Spiggot and the fact of a neighbour's house being entered the night previous is sufficient to make him declare " both men" burglars. He in due course communicates this to the ladies and shortly afterwards Thirlmere appears in a footman's livery. By the strange manner of those present he sees he is taken for a burglar and continuing his endeavours he obtains possession of all the jewellery including a ring. To pacify v tiiem he hands back everything but the latter, and all join in a gavotte' which is exceptionally well arranged. Before taking his departure however, Thirlmere makes known his identity, when Sybl clamours for her lost jewel but too late! He returns, however, and hands it back and finally asks forgiveness and an acknowledgment that he won the bet. The piece is very amusing, and should satisfy the most critical.