ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1598, 15 November 1912, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THEATJIE EOYAI* 'f ho Thcalro Royal's Him programme '"> drawing great houses. Tlio Crimson Enmhlors, who provide tlio first portion of tho programme, are quite ;t Company in thein- , selvos. Other "turns" includo a clover vcnti'iloquial entertainment, musical i comedy work, arid tlio am using musical eccentricities of tho Ito-Jto-Jli Trio. Lμ Bow's trick cycling with a dancing part- ; ner is , ono of the test numbers, and the ! wholo entertainment is thorougldy enjeynUc. \ FULLERS'PICftJBES.. . i A complete change of programme was : prosentcu at tho Situating Kink in Vivian ; Street last evening. Tlie no* "releases" are quite good numbers, and tho pvo- • gramme is v.-cll varied. Recent happen* ; ings of interest in various parts of .tho ; world are depicted j.ti tho latest Gaumont ■ Graphic. "Winter Sports in North i Sweden" is a very iittsiresting ntimbor. , Among tho dramatic films is a "Wcslera" • drama, entitled "A Western legacy." i Some very pretty country and city, scenes L are shown, in "Plymouth; and its Surroundi inss." Among other good pictures are:— "The Smuggler's. Daughter," "'Modern i Portia," mid "Cocoa Cultivation." The : programme will bo repeated this evening, [ and a special matineo performance is trn- , nouiiced for • to-morrow, > THE KING'S TKEATBE. The piece- de resistance of -the current ' programme at the King's Theatre' is a " Vitagraph photo-play entitled "The > Money Kings," a really excellent drama. ' "Tho Thumb Print" is a oa'pital story, • and other pictures worthy of mention ate: • "The- Melbourne Cup," "Evolutions. of a Duck Egg," and "Dupin Buys a Watch," . THE NEW THEATBE. ' • Tho chaßge < of programme of the New ' Theatre continuous pictures acted as ft 5 big draw throughout yesterday. The smes. r included a drama by the Selijr Company entitled "The Bevi.l, Servant, and the " Man"—a ■ modern allegorical play. A > young husband abandons himself to' dis- • sipahon, and leaves his beautiful you.ng • wife to grieve over Ms lack of-attention, p Ono night, before he proceeds to the cafe, his wife lets him know' that if he 'deeicted to spend his nights recklessly sh» } would do likewise, The husband returns 1 late, and fairing into an armchair dreams - that the devil leads him to his favourit* j Cafe, where lie discovers his wife- flirting 1 with another. . The devil so. taunts the r husband that when lie awakens and dis- • covers that lip lias been, teaming ho ' arouses his wife and promises to reform, > The Lubin Western drama "The Deputy's ■ Peril" is a story of a hand&iine young 9 deputjvsherift'i itarronr escape from death 1 in a coiner's den, "and .the capture of ■ the gang. Another dratnatie conception,., ' "Nerves and the Man," is an Edison mas-' terpiece. Among other studies are: "Beauty Spots in South Devon," "fisifc Dawg, "Rice 'Harvest ift. Japan," and the A. B. comedy "Tragedy of ft Dress. Suit." The picture of "The Melbourne Cup" is very distinct, and exhibits ,the principal phases of tho famous 'sportin.? event. To-day ojjtl to-night the Vitngra-pn Company's exclusive drama- "Though t Tour Sins be as Scarlet" will be ,jatro- i . duced, * ,; , ■ i BHORTTS THEATRE. An excellent prpgratnme of new pictures tfas screened at theatre in Willis- ' Street last night. . Chief among a most ■ entertaining set of films is "The Missing Finger." The story is that the Jewellers I Protective Association gets .i call to the I '.cficat that a jowsllery store' lias b«m : broken into. The detectives hasten to tho i store and find that the jafe isasbeeu blown i open snd looted. Searching- for a teluo ; the chief detective finds the finger of a • man, which' evidently has been blown of? [by the dytiainite. At a hospital near by he is informed that a man has just b*ai" treated ter ! the injury. Next morning , the burglar, Michael Clark,- rushes :to the railway station, and is just in time j« '. swins on to the back platform of a train as the detectives arrive. The officers charter a special, engine; 'and. pursne tho, train, and'dash 1 phst'-'as the-'fngitive jumps from the train and escapes. ■ A. few years later Clarke turns up on a ranch out West, and, meeting Bill Jackson, the raftchowner's son, becomes acquainted,, iind te receivtd by the family. • Maty , asister of .the- surgeon who treated Clark's woupd, giNS Witst, and is a guest, at the wmcii. Both young Jackson find: GlaTk fall 'hr love with her. One day ehe faikw, ij snapshot photo of the tvro. riien, -and sends a copy to her brother, lrfio rotog-: ' nises the burglar, and with the detectives '' goos West to capture him. Clarke resists ' arrest and is shot. Another good pictur? I is "A New Cure for Divorce." in tb;is 1 story a young eauplo, test married,.go to 1 the seaside for their honeymoon, She. *p{uses to learn sirimming. and he 'goes in " bathing 'with another girl. She ttentens : divorce. While tho trouble is at. its ; height her father entertains them all at : an evening, in •ffhtee the chief item is a ! kinomatograph film, which. wji3' tnkeh at : ' the wedding qujte unknown to tie bride or ' the bridegroom. The glame back te'thst happy day heats the breach., and the ypirajj ! bride's jealousy is conquered. Among the ' other nianters are:-"ln.tho Pu.pil of 1 His Bye,*' "The Gauniont Gra-phje (a ■ partirailafly good one th-ig we«;),' and ■ ! 'Our Ariny" (showing British Army manoeuvres). ; THE EMPRESS THEATRE. The Gustomdry 'change at the Empress ■ Theatre to-day will includo a spectacular. Wild West demonstration, of cow-ljqy. ■ rough-riding, entitled "The Fall Eoimct- '. ap on T 5," an-exclnsivO suTjject, This ■ film, which occupies over half. an. hemr, affords vivid and close'views .of. a recent i annual ■β-isplny of wild horse-breakiug, i bttck-iumpinp, stoDr tiding, ;buU .dozing, and lasso throwing. Another subject which can be soen only at this theatre Will be the A.B. comedy-drama "So IfeaT, and let soPor." This is'described as : an adnaralile example of high-class photo-. -. PEOPLE'S PICTTJBB'PALACS; : The new Picture Palace, ono' of the most oomforbWe and most central picture theatres iti Wellington, is -to open.. Us doow to the publip tq-niQrtow at 11 a.m. An exhibition of pictures (by invitaMon) is to bo given this evening.