ENTERTAINMENTS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7914, 4 August 1917, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CLEMENT WRAGGE’S LECTURE.

The return visit of Mr Clement Wragge was eagerly looked forward to by all who had had the pleasure of hearing this well-known meteorologist on his previous visit, and it was not surprising, therefore, to see a very large audience in the Municipal Theatre last evening. The subject of the lecture was “The Eternal Universe and the War,” and in the course of his remarks the speaker expressed the opinion that the war simply had to come, that man brought it upon himself, and that it would finish in favor of the Allies “in God’s good time,” when the world had been cleansed, when man had humbled himself and been brought to a realisation of his duty to his neighbor. Illustrating the lecture were some beautiful slides showing the starry firmament and the glories of the heavens, whilst as an introduction the lecturer showed some fine views of his own home, where he has cultivated plants from all parts of the world. The second part of the lecture was devoted to the forecasting of the weather, and many points of interest to the farming community were touched on. After the lecture specimens of radium were privately exhibited.

Mr Wragge left for Takapau this morning and speaks there to-night.

PERMANENT PICTURES. A belated honeymoon trip to a mountain cottage affords the scene of the dramatic central incidents of “The Bondage of Fear,” the fine World film drama to be screened at the Pictures on Monday evening. This play is the best of this good firm’s production yet released, and is remarkable for some new artistic studio work on sub-titles. The play lias a particularly strong plot based on the infatuation of a rejected lover for the heroine. His headstrong conduct places her in a position of awful danger, which is hideously increased when he is shot down by an intruding burglar. Tile latter promptly seizes on the situation to turn it to profit, and settles down to blackmail the unfortunate young wife. Ethel Clayton, as the heroine, is magnificent, and her powerful acting places her in the very front rank of screen artists. Arthur Ashley as “Skinny,” the arch villain, is most impressive, especially in the scene on the lonely mountain lake when he buries in its still waters the body of his victim.