AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, 18 November 1919, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

PABAMOUNTThey were married, and her husband wanted a honeymoon. She had other ideas and declined, so he picked her up and kidnapped her, retiring to a sequestered island to keep her until she came to her senses. This is only one situation of many bright ones in the Goiawyn picture, "Friend Husband," in which the new fashioned wife is Madge Kennedy, and the old fashioned husband Rockliffe Fellowes. No opportunities have been passed in this delightful comedy, which ranks as one of Madge Kennedy's best vehicles. The unexpected happens in an unexpected way, and the story is particularly suited to tho bright little commedienne who is featured. A number of supporting subjects include comedy and interest films.

"COST" THEATRE.

TWO SPLENDID FEATURES. The current change at the Cosy Theatre includes two splendid pictures. "The Co-respondent" is picturized from the play of the same name by Alioe Leal Pollock, and 's produced by Ralph W. Ince. In settings, lighting, direction, photography and titling an unusual degree of excellence was attempted. Ralph W. Ince' personally directed the production, putting into it the best fruits of the thought, and experience that has given him an enviable position among the pioneer screen directors of America. The picture tells a thrilling story of life—and has a universal appeal, and should attract patronage from all classes of picture pa rons in all sections of the country. "The Co-respondent" was one of the brilliant successes in America, I its season at the Broadway Theatre, New York, being memorable for its box office returns. The appealing character to whom Elaine Hammerstein adds her own natural lovableness is that of a girl agonizingly placed at the mercy of an outraged wife and an unscrupulous husband—while duty insists on such exposure of her curious misfortune as love will never tolerate. "Believe me, Xantippe," is a splendid five-reeler melodrama, in which popular Wallace Held adds further to his laurels in i popularity. This programme will be! shown again this evening. I

The fame of Louise Mack, the wonderful woman who did euch fine work in France and Belgium during over four years of war, and was, on one occasion, a prisoner in the German lines, has preceded her, with the msuit that seats are already in keen demand for her on/Miight recital at the Masterton Opera House on Friday next. Louise Mack's recital is not "jußt the ordinary dry lecture." It Has been referred to by the Melbourne Age generally as "a revelation, an enlightening influence of inestimable value emanating from the greatest woman- speaker ever heard in Australia," Miss" Mack will tell of "How I met Edith Cavelll; "Five Days a German Prisoner"; "What I; saw inside the German Lines": "With Edith Cavell in Brussels"; "Crossing the Straits with Captain Fry aft," and a hundred and one personally observed incidents of barbariI ties, outrages, heroism and devotion of intensest interest. Referring to | Louise Mack's account of her second meeting with Nurse Cavell, a contemporary writes:—"They met again at the hospital the following night; the story of that meeting, of the martyred nurse'b wonderful bravery, her devotion to duty, and the subsequent tragedy that moved all the world to pity and honour, held the audience enthralled." Children understand and enjoy Louise Mack's recitals equally with adults. The box plan is at the Bristol.