The Empress Pictures

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 6, 29 May 1914, Page 3

The Empress Pictures

j KING’S HALL, TO-NIGHT. Mr T. Britton, who is making a vigorous and successful effort to secure new contracts in the way of a supply of the newest, latest and best films on the market, desires to apologise for the delay that has occurred through no fault of his own, and hopes that patrons will overlook any ol the short-comings that necessaiily accompany a new enterprise of any kind. At the special request of patrons he has secured for to-night as the Starr picture a representation of Sir Conan Doyle’s first great literary triumph, “The Sign of Four,” which portrays with intensitive skill the methods of that great detective of fiction, Mr Sherlock Holmes. In addition the following will be screened: “A Trip Through the Mountains of Colorado, ” a scenic of great excellence; a Gaumont graphic; “ Broncho Billy Ward,” a cowboy drama dear to the juvenile eye; “ The Hungry Mosquito,” a screaming comic ; and the in teresting and exciting drama, “The Lost Deed.” These will be followed by the side-splitting comic, “ Jones Jonah ;” “ Buttercups,” a tale of the Irish peasantry, the whole concluding with the farcical comedy, “The Ginger-bread Man.” The plant in use at the Empire Pictures has already proved its worth with the result that for clearness and accuracy of detail, life-like movement, absence of glare, gl.tter and 'vibration, a d loch nical perfection the picture -j shown cannot be equalled in any picture show in the Southern : Hemisphere. A complete cb :uge of programme cm Saturday j night, and jl’preafter a series of • films prove absolutely | the produced in the j provinces..