The Empress Pictures.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 6, 12 June 1914, Page 3

The Empress Pictures.

KING’S HALL, TO-NIGHT. At some considerable expense Mr Briton, proprietor of the Empress Pictures, has secured for one night (Friday) only, one of the greatest films ever produced, '* In the Hands of Ihe London Crooks,” which comes straight to Huntly after a phenomena I!y successful run in the Queen’s Theatre, Auckland. From beginning to end, the film, which is 5,000 feet in length, is full of dramatic incidents: a horse race, a prize fight, a battle on tlie Afghan Frontier, and the lurid excitement of a gambling den, with an intricate detective plot underlying the whole make up a drama which is as thrilling as it is beautifully stagQ.d, . This masterpiece can only ha shown once, and lovers of the dramatic should make a point of being present to-night. The star will lie supported with other new films of excellent quality, the whole making up a programme whose equal lias ! never been shown in the provinces. On Saturday night an entire change will be screened, “ The Federal Spy” being the principal pictm-q of the evening, whole - other projections will portray | the comic, dramatic, and scenic, stiicli ; without which no programme is complete. Beginning with next week, Mr j Britoq will show four times, the . .eniags chosen for the great pr. - i aminos contracted for belie , Thursday, Friday, Saturday land 'h.nday. The pictorials and ; handbills %i.ye an idea of the pic : ■ secured, and seats can i be b inked at the King’s Hall at iy h >ur.