AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 1 May 1913, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC.

HAYWARD'S PICTURES,

COMPLETE CHANGE TO-NIGHT.

"LADY CLARE."

This 'picture is an exquisitely Srtis- ' ti; rendering of the familiar-poem in' which Tennyson carries us back to the good old days of Merrie England, when knights were bold arid ladies fair and castles abounded as centres of the great estates. Lord Ronald comes ,to • Lady Clare bringing her the gift of a.. doe. Th«?y are betrothed and soon \o be married. Their meeting is watched by William and old Alice, the nurse, his wife in evident satisfaction, and later tho nurse comes to Lady Claro to congratulate her "that all comes oxit so just and fair" as Lord Ronald i& really heir to all the groat lands and she is not really the Lady Clare. She confesses that the old earl's daughter died in her arms and that she substituted her own child who grew ivp as Lady Clare. But Lady Clare wilt have none of this plan : that she states, and decides to go to Lord Ronald and tell him. releasing him from his engagement, even though it breaks lier heart. Sho dons a simple garb of a humble- girl, aud crossing the fields reaches his estate and. tells him her story, and then-we find that Lord" Ronald is-"worthy-of her love, for he '.laughs at ;.the tale and, in the words of the poem, tells v -her•; that if she is not the Lady Clare-and he is the rightful owner they too will wed to-morroir morn and she shall still retain her place in the world. The story is played with frreat delicacy and poetic charm by the Edison, players';, and .fully sustains' the dignity and charm of the original work. In addition to this picture a splendid programme will bescreened, including H.M.S. Now Zealand at Wellington.