Town Hall Pictures

Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1740, 15 April 1916, Page 5

Town Hall Pictures

TO-NIGHT,

■ The following is a short synopsis of the two most important pictures to be screened at the Town Hall this evening;— “Billie’s Debut.”—Patsy only meant to have a little fun with Billy, when she gave him her best stage smile, but Billy had just run from his wife, and the little soubrette came into his life like a ray of sunshine after a week of rain. She couldn’t shako him, for he followed her to the theatre and waited after rehearsal, and her disdain only made him more eager. They persuaded Billy that the best way to get a smile from Patsy was to become an actof himself, and he was enlisted in the force of supers. Then they sent a box to his wife for the opening performance. Billy didn’t know she was comingj but he was afraid that someone might recognise him, and insisted upon a disguising beard. Billy saw her as soon as he came on the stage, but he felt safe hiding behind the whiskers, and all might have been well, had it not happened that the beard came off, and as luck would have it, it happened right in front of the box in which his wife was sitting. Billy had amused the audience before them, but what followed was funnier than anything that the show had ever offered. (Featuring Billie Reeves).

“Leap from a Liner.’ ’ —Having suceeeded in making Florence believe her sweetheart, Norton, false, the conspirators strive desperately, to get Florence Into their power and to rid themselves of Norton’s presence in the game. They secure a medical certificate, signed, under threat, by two doctors to the effect that Florence is insane, cleverly abduct her right under the n se of the police, and carry her aboard an rut-going liner. This episode thrills with startling action. Florence, when far out at sea, leaps from the ocean liner into the dpad of night, battles with the waves, is finally rescued by a fishing schooner and carried to the humble fisherman’s home. But her mind is a blank.