AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13343, 3 April 1911, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC

HAYWARD'S PICTURES. LYCEUM THEATRE. The week-end change of programme took place at the Lyceum Theatre on Saturday evening, when there was a very large audience present. The pictures shown were a a exceptionally entertaining and interesting series, and keen approval was manifested by those assembled.' The star film depicts a powerful and telling dramatic study, entitled “Renunciation,” and is one of the popular Vitagraph Company’s best efforts, the staging, setting, and acting being all that could be desired. Another powerful study is entitled “A Woman's \Vit,” a stirring story of the stratagem oi a woman who has been captured by brigands. “The Little Hero of Holland” is a particularly fine study, which met with general appreciation. A splendid study, full of exciting interest, is “The' Taming of Wild Bill,” a Western cowboy comedydrama. A particularly interesting film depicts the most exciting events in connection with the recent Houndsditch affray. The doomed house, in Sydney Street, the troops and police surrounding the house and firing on the Anarchists, the hospital nurses in attendance on the injured, and the funeral of the murdered policemen, being vividly depicted. The nicturc depicting the sulphur industry in Sicily is a good one, well worth seeing. The Australian Gazette gives views of athletics. swimming championships, Victorian racing, and a splendid view of a German training ship under full sail. Pathe's Gazette also conains some very interesting •terns. The comics were good, and comprised “The Passing of the Grouch,” “Who Wins the Widow?” and “The Dog Sweeper.” Hayward’s Orchestra rendered a fine programme of incidental music. TO-NIGHT this grand series will be repeated, and another large attendance should eventuate. NEVILLE THORNTON BENEFIT. The Opera House was packed last evening for the Neville Thornton benefit performance. In addition to several items by the Garrison Band, Madame Emiiv Briggs sang “Sunset and Evening Star”, Mr G. C. Chambers “It is Enough,” and Lieut. G. Buckley played “Abide With Me”. His Worship the Mayor, Mr C. E. Mackay, said the fund was now sufficiently large to enable the committee to send Mr Thornton to Rotorua, and to maintain him there for some time. He trusted that by the time the list is closed the committee would have sufficient to enable the’’ old veteran to end his davs in the peace which he deserved, and in doing this they would have achieved their purpose. He took the opportunity of saying that Mdlle. Dolores has generously donated a guinea xo the fund, and that Messrs Fuller and Sons had kindly placed their plant and an operator at the disposal of the “fund trustees” for a performance, to be given in aid of the fund on the 21st inst.