ENTERTAINMENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14140, 10 June 1920, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

PARAMOUNT THEATER. “A BURGLAR FOR A NIGHT." Kirk Maiden brings home from China William Neal, a man who has helped him in a row with the natives. Ho finds his father ill and in great distress because a raid is being made upon the railroad which he controls. Kydc promises to get him back the road. The operations are being conducted by Jas. Herrick, rhe president of tho road, and Clayton, the road's attorney, who is engaged to Herrick’s niece, Janet, who Kirk rescued as his yacht came into port. Neal takes Kirk to a thieves’ college, where he learns to cyaek safes, and he goes to Herrick’s to look into a safe there. Jane interrupts, and Kirk abducts her. Neal advises that he marry her, since a wife cannot testify against her husband. A fake marriage is provided for, and Janet returns to her uncle to .announce her mayriage, though she does not know that it was Kirk who married her. Just then Kirk walks in to ■denounce Herrick, and •lanet announces him as her husband. There is a clash of wills, in which Kirk is victor, and the plotters abandon their attack upon the road, while Janet and Kirk plan to ratify their marriage. A fiy-ther episode of “Wolves of Kultur ’ a comedy and a Gazette complete a splendid programme. COSY THEATRE. ••BONDS OF HONOUR.’’ Yamashito and Sasamoto are twin brothers, sons of a Japanese Count, high in the confidence of his country. Yamashito is studious and helpful to his father, but Sasamoto’s escapades bring him into the meshes of the German secret, agents, and he delivers to them the plans entrusted to his father. He is discovered .returning the documents, and is expected to clear his name of stain through harikari. But Sasamoto prefers life, and escapes to Russia. Yamashito offers his life in his brother’s .stead, but is told to follow Sasamoto to Russia and bring him to justice. Through his resemblance to his brother he exposes the spies, and Sasamoto at last atones in the Japanese fashion, leaving his brother fyec to marry the girl they both have loved. Another exciting chapter of “The Lightning Raider,” a eomedv (“Just Little Things”), and a Gazette are also to be shown. “THE WOMAN THOU GAVEST ME.” There is probably no author in the world of fiction to-day that has a greater '(following than Hall Caine. Thus the coming of one of his works in “The Woman Thou Gavest Me” has been the signal for a rush at the box office wherever this feature has been advertised. The story -of this book is well known, this having been a very widely-read book—a fact which makes t.li efilm so popular with theatregoers. To-night’s programme will commence at 7.45 o’clock sharp. There will be a big orchestral accompaniment. A special matinee is being held on Thursday afternoon at 2.30.

ALLAN WILKIE COY. “THE ROTTERS.” A theatrical treat is promised for Saturday evening, when the Allan Wilkie Comedy Company will present 11. F. Maltby’s world-famed comedy “The Rotters,” at the Opera House. Mr Wilkie has selected a special company for the production of this piece throughout New Zealand. “The Rotters” arrives with a great reputation from London, where it was first introduced four years ago, and has been revived, with tremendous success, three times in that city. The plot has. to do with the. laughable dilemmas of one Clugston, a self-made illiterate man, who has risen to the middle-class in provincial North of England. Clugston boasts of his ultra-respectability, but receives many severe shocks through the lapses of the' members of his family. A conspicuous figure in the play is Olugston’s chauffeur, a well-educated man who is an outcast from his people. The dialogues are reported to be particularly smart, and the situations are riotously laughable. Owing to the, remarkable success of ‘‘The Rotters” Mr Wilkie has secured the Princess Theatre, Melbourne, for a season of 16 weeks, in order to introduce the play to Melbourne audiences later on. The box plan is on view at the Bristol.