AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13421, 7 July 1911, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC

HAYWARD'S PICTURES

, Tlio change of pictures at flip Lyrpum Theatre lak (, cvm in i* a traded another very audience, who were very well plena'll with the programme. which j H a fine one. I lie dramatic element its particularly strong in t his aeries, some powerful and stirring studies boitif? screened. One of the finest of these is entitled, “Her .Soldier Sweet lii art. ’ a sweetly pathetic story of the days of the American Civil War. A. yonll(>■ man enlists in the Unionists and in rejected hy Ins sweetheart, whoso sympathies are with the Confederates. He is captured hy the enemy and shot as a spy: and the girl is stricken with remorse; the scene where she is alone with her dead lover Jieiug very touching. “The Broken ('rms ’ is another splendid drama. Hie story is woven round a young couple in the country, and the young man decides to try his fortune in the eitv. and takes a most, affectionate farewell 'of his sweetheart. She breaks a. cross she is wearing and _ (rives him half, telling him that saonld either wish to break off the engagement to return the other half. Arriving in the city, he stays at a boardinghouse, where he meets another young lady, who linds out his story by intercepting a letter. Sbe tries to part the lovers by moans of another hail cross, but true love is always triumphant, ami the story ends -lappilv. "Dick Farrell’s Prize” is a stirring story of the West, which tells how n cowboy won a handsome prize by rescuing a young gild who had been captured by a Rang ol outlaws. Some thrilling incidents and intrepid riding is witnessed, especially when the hern and heroine are escaping from the bandits and arc nearly re-cap-tured, when another party of cowboys romes to the rescue and lassoes the outlaws. “How the Tenderfoot Made Good” is another splendid stow of Ibe West, in which a young fellow disguises himself as a young woman in order to capture a noted outlaw and win n bride. The comedy olememont is catered for with such screamers as “Queen for a Day," "The Little Darlimr,” “The Masquerading Cop," and “The Widow of Mill Creek." A splendid topical picture slu ws the unveiling of the Queen Victoria Memorial and flu* march past of the troops. The incidental music of the Lveenm Orchestra was again greatly appreciated. TO-NIGHT this line programme will be screened for the last time, as another change is due to-morrow night.