ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3979, 12 July 1915, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

PATHE PICTURES. The flowing tide of sustained success i® still with the Patlie Picture management at His Majesty’s Theatre. Rig houses were recorded at both the afternoon and evening sessions on baturday, when the sparkling new programme called "forth complimentary commendation on all sides. The star feature, “'Hie. Intriguers l /’ came as a regular surprise packet. This is a seatlnng indictment of the looseness or society in America, where everyone who appears to bo wealthy is received with open arms. This leaves the opportunity for well-dressed parasites to prey upon all who may have a weak spot in their lives. Two such gentry come very near to wrecking the lives of the hero and heroine in this gripping story, which contains many powerful dramatic situations. It is splendidly filmed by the Lubin ComW. “Coney Island Nightmare” afforded the big audience a real good laugh. In this the Vitagraph players describe how a romantic young iady after reading a' v ‘shilling shocker” lays her fair head on the pillow. Sho has a dream in which the characters in the absurd story aro ludicrously mixed up. The humor is simply irresistible. No less amusing was “Gussic, the Golfer,” in which Syd. Chaplin kept the audience in a very merry mood. “The Red Signal” is a sensational romance, widen shows how that heroine of the railroad stops an oxpress train from being hurled to destruction. It is a. thrill from start to finish. A film which was followed with rivetted attention was “The Wonders of Magnetism,” which shows what a wonderful aid to the mining industry is Edison’s magnet ore separator, which is shown doing seemingly impossible tasks. Among the many stirring war pictures shown by the ‘Gaumont Graphic” were interesting views of the German army and something of their field guns. This firstclass programme will be repeated tonight.

OPERA HOUSE PICTURES. As is usual on Saturday evening, j the Opera House was packed from floor to ceiling when the two great stars “Jockey of Death” and “Mystery of the Diamond Belt,” were screened. Never before has such a sensational and exciting drama been shown than “The Jockey of Death.” There are superb circus scenes, marvellous tiglit-wire walking, a race for liberty arousing tense excitement, riding a bicycle on a wire stretched across a river, and many'more wonderful scenes, until one wonders what the next nerve-racking act is. The acting is splendid, while the stage mountings are worthy of the highest praise, especially that showing the interior of a circus, with its tier upon tier crowded by a fashionable audience,. evidently spellbound at the marvellous performance of the heroine of the story. This consists of being hauled to the top of the big building, and making a perilous descent upon a single wire, walking backwards and forwards, and varying the performance by riding a cycle over the wire across the heads of the audience. The final dive into the net was received with enthusiastic applause by the audience. It is all very wonderful, and illustrates the remarkable experiences which the modern picture artists have to undergo in order to please an exacting public. This picture takes up the whole of the second part. The other star subioct is ‘Mystery of the Diamond Belt. ’ This pictures Sexton Blake and his bloodhounds, and is :5000ft in length. The remainder of the programme, which includes the latest European Gazette and a splemdid Keystone comedy, is exceptionally good, and will bo finally screened this evening.

AY OR LD ’ S PI CTURES. The popular Gold Seal serial drama “The Trey o’ Hearts” is being continued at the World’s Pictures this afternoon and evening, this being episode No. 12. it is stated that during the filming of this section, as the result, of the premature starting of a landslide effect, the entire Gold Seal Company, including Wilfred Lucas (the director) and Harry Vullejo (cameraman) missed death by literally a matter of inches. Cleo Madison, Goo. Larkin, EdwardSloma and Ray Hanford, in an auto, wore being pursued by a vigilance committee for alleged complicity in tlie murder of Hopi Jim. Realising that capture meant lynching, Tom Walsh, as Barcus, starts a landslide high above where tho car has to pass, the idea being to separate tho pursued and pursuers by a bank of rocks and earth. The proper place was selected and eighteen cans of explosive set. The fuse was cut and time and at tho signal the action began. The fuse, however, burned too fast and a premature slide resulted. Realising tho danger the chaffeur threw tho clutch and shot into top gear and tho car just cleared, although tho occupants were struck by some of the smaller stones. The camera tripod was broken and Mr Vallijo several exit about. It was a, marvellous escape and those who had suffered were hurriedly removed to Holy rood, further operations being out of the question that day. The star feature will be supported by a special topical feature entitled “The Striker’s Nightmare,” 1000 ft in length, “Italian Cavalry,” “Stress of Circumstances,” “The Hoodoo,” “The Tramp’s Paradise,” and “Poor Old Piesan.”