ENTERTAINMENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXX, Issue 14509, 4 March 1916, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TOWN HALL PICTURES

"THK BORROWED lIYTVRO

PLANE."

''The Borrowed Hydroplane" is tho title of tho 15th chapter of "Tho Mil- | lion Dollar Mystery," and will be included in tho 'change of programme at the Town Hall to-night. Tho last chapter closed with a. thrilling adventure and tho defeat of the Black Hundred as the result of somo clever work by Norton, with the aid of a dictaphone, that -wonderful betrayer of secrets'. To-night's picture will move matters on a stage, "The Borrowed Hydroplane.' - ' Defeat after defeat seems only to spur the "Black Hundred" to greater daring which'requires moro hazardous plans and rescues by •Tonos and Norton, as is vividly portrayed in rhis episode. Boldly they take Florence from her guardians and rush her out to sea. Meantime, they d eye end on the House of Mystery in force and demand tho million dollars of Jones. A great - winged man-bird speeds out over the sva—Jones stands at bay iv a light to the finish—and in a sudden turn mif tlie wheel, the ■'Black Hundred" again faces defeat. A local topical of interest will be the film presenting last glimpses of the Eighth Reinforcements as they left Wellington, and other interesting topical items will be shown in the Bathe Gazette, one of which is a good picture of Coroporal Bassett. the Jirs't New Xealauder to win a Y.C. "Their First Quarrel" is a Yitagraph comedy sparkling with comical situations, in which Sydney Drew causes heaps of fun. •'Queenie of the Hill"' is another brilliant comic-featuring Billie Reeve-. Billie gets a job with a wealthy woman, whose maduess is that she is- Cleopatra, aud her lover is Mark Antouv. Billie enacts Mark Antony, but falls in love with Cleopatra's maid, Charmiau. Jealousy in the breast- of Cleopatra springs. But just .see what Billie springs. "It is a svreani.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES

ANTHONY lIOI'E'S WORK JMVrUIiISKI).

Always on the look-out for superior dramatic masterpieces, the T.P. Electric Cinema proprietary have secured the masterpiece English production of 1916 for this evening's entertainment. The works of the dramatist Anthony Hope are very popular with readers, and "The Prisoner of Zcnda" ranks as one of his* best. ThLs splendid book is brought out in picture form by the London "Film Company, and the press in the towns where this film is at present showing are unanimous in their high appreciation of its merits. The story is too well known and too long to recount here, suffice it to say that it is a film 6000 ft in length, and perfect in acting and photography. Tlie leadingroles are enacted by Mr Henry Ainley and Miss* Jane Gail. In support of this feature are several items which include '"'The Girl and tho Reporter (2-act melodrama). ''Charlie Throws the Bull," a Charlie Chaplin cartoon, •'Manners and the Man" (comedy), "Ganmont War Graphic" and others.