The Empress Pictures.

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

The Empress Pictures.

KING’S HALL, TO-NIGHT. ! Large audiences, which increase with every new programme shown. greeted Mr Briton’s effort to cater for their amusement with great enthusiasm, delighted patrons going home more than satisfied with the pictures screened, and pronouncing them, especially that great film, Monte Cristo. unsurpassed for excellence of detail, clearness of view, and variety of interest. For tonight the star film, entitled “ For Love of a Man,” details the sufferings of the innocent heroine who is accused of a crime she did not commit. Forced by circumstances to associate with “ crooks, ” she is enabled by a strangely dramatic coincidence to prove her innocence by securing the punishment of the real criminal, the various dramatic situations being vividly portrayed in a picture 2000 ft in length. Another drama, “Riches and Rogues,” is of intense human interest., as also are the vivid incidents of “ Western Life” depicted in “ The Trial of the Lonesome Mine ” and “ Mother’s Love v. Gold. ” Side-splitting and laughter provoking comedy is provided in “ Bobby’s Boh, “ The Gloves of Pfcames, ” “ Oh ! What a Swim ” and “ Day Dreams, ” while the beautifully coloured film, “Old Biskra,” is of high educational value. “ Man in the*World of Men. 2000 feet long, the principal picture for Saturday night, is well supported, while Monday’s programme will prove equally meritorious and interesting, the Melbourne Cup being added as an extra. Mr Briton states that in future he will show on Friday, Saturday and Monday evenings, and that the pictures screened in the King’s are'absolutely new. never yet having been shown outside of Auckland where tlioy were projected in one theatre only.