AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15445, 7 September 1914, Page 10

AMUSEMENTS.

FILLERS' PROGRAMME!.. It is. hard to say which w:!l prov» tiit• Bust popular and entertattittt;i subject on Fulteis' programme t&'-.s. .vee-fc. Tliosv* who l:Tse a jjr.iy t drama mil appelate Kay-lsee*s eiAjO iu it JccdncC.on t nutted. "Tae Pittal'." u » a powerful #tery in which a pr-'tt.v "ottntry girl forsakes tfw fttlags choir for a company «f actors. John Hern (.stajie man.ij;e-t> ts atcr-ae;-«'d by the girl's yc-oct locks and tempts her trom lite straight path fry snpp-r* and chain paiiae. A prevku* r.ctiiu of Kern' s t'teaehery dec des to sav# tfir js rf, but without Muxes* ta t'Ue sirt retains a faith :n Hern; The fatter arranges to take the sflrt away, t';tut when tli.*- t'tue c<;m.ii.s ht» rival ,'s oatrw rue re' upon th> .scene and promptly U s'-ftHe.'i Hern's teal chicaetfcr... Th:s t-iae Hazel is eonv need.- land the t.i rival <>C tho> polio- an end to a s::i>u.ndrv'i'4 career. "Cite- Nort|i<?k C j-y. are famous tut' thi.'r product ions, and in "Votes for W.rtttn," ijtt a sJury <.t the; St:ffir»j?*-tte. siu:.-h ra has never been previously attempted t»y th"camera. Rep-lute w.th tender pathos ar.d an abundance ef conutfy it shotvs that wi.iiir.n'a proper _ sphere f.> her tome. The- : C;: up of the Xordsk Coy. ts tlie ct success in e\,\:L'y "detail. Another drama. "The Pl-itce.** v. the Desert" features M.icv Fuller and Ma:- McUe rmett, in a t;r-at ICdijon li"m. Thi> i_-cen.es are-' v.-ry rny; and th:.' favoi'ritf» Mary Fitter t.s s*'.»a at hec hest. Ttuv. "Auatraliab Gazette" gives plenty of topie:»t bcii-a. •" Ben .rcttEtu Sydney" depicts strv»t ?f-eae» at!-'I the ur.ndorfat Sfvitrit WVes bathorir. k 'S:t:r:sht>t.s ut .Ya-ura Fa'!»" has hc«n taken po tits of vantage ar.d the scene;* :.ra e.v-ep.tttvt. a'ly tine. ••The M ssrng. t> : »aior.d" IrmU the- comedy e'emcnt. Althsturh patre?t.»

E.ave disappointed lately by special war turns not appcar.tu:, this week they tan leek forward with to tho i> et tires adwrt:-:.\t screened. To-night's spretais are, "Making a British Soldier."' a very tntrrtitinittg turn. as abo ts •'General lan Hanekon tttsipeet ny our Terrtti.T.a's. Dunn,; tlte tf the tatter Mr H. Undd wt'J tlie very latent (tutr.otic so:if;. "Xev.- Zealantt ;e tlie Front. THE POPULAR LYCEUM. Ilayvvarils have for tis-.-ir patron:- tentyut a ttn.e cekieutum of sttpe:-.or ftlius. wlnel't eovers a \vt»Ee There ate ten subject.-, itelu-tin;; .1 pitUtrt- iJttitled . e't a So.d.er, ' a.so one .Geuerat Sir laii liataiftc-r:. 'lite star t'dn» is a powerful tiraitta entitle;! "Wilts of a Sit en." Iliijjhjon, a weiithy cynif, resolves to start u nt-.v life in the •-uitntry. llw meets MtE'ie Parker, the daughter «f a county {arson- A month later ths cytite and site s tuple country in»;d i-re nuirriel. his return to tsn'ls tlitat his wife carea iKjth.n;4 fur sar.etv, prefj-rr.ny it» t-pettl her time aitltnj{ the r ty s un.o. tun »tes. W Liie in the st«nt>. Att!l:e meets Kusa, en.: of ttie lluyhson's fVtentk. is a io interested in etiartty werk, and as a resuit he an t if fib betonii> t'rtends. Corn Groysoa, an ;-.dventurtvj. loves Hu'_'uson, and tttafces hiru siisp.: tons ot Alutie. Aliliie that lsrmt«h;on is fur t»s utiaatttt: aisU-r tvhi>tn she tin-.ts later to lit- Rt.sa, and hnttt;s her !.a. k t )i_ Brousshtott. mtierarit ot tEtis, orders Millie to return to ft. r fatlier. His faith in wentatt k it-1 is shatterfl. ami he sots bni-k to C'or.i. ariti astrntps his o!c! itiV. I rrn.-i lifjt t rrtMe mistake. to the cmtritry !i>- ntt:is tlcit M Hie, ktirthrjStwi. haiyone t« Afr'cn to tak-> u{» misi'.-'onary work and hp follows. A tribe of natives attack tho party. A friendly native gives th? .i!arnt, am!

Meets with a party ct hunters. "I'll*? v.h.te men j't) to the rescue, i'he nr.ry ]>.: rty are about to be burn-•[ aliw. u-i-.ott Hujihs-.m and his party amve. A 1; it battle ensues. anil t!:-' bla-ks are b.---ue>!. Hn'_:hsnn find-lii-r w:ie and h:rcivencs>. The suoport-in-x fihiK a:'; 1 :ii> > 01 very h'crh standard, inetudiin; t':e ;'i >p:c-l Gazette," which :s a very clio-co n>::>.b.'r.