Empress Pictures.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, 6 November 1914, Page 3

Empress Pictures.

KING’S HALL. FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND MONDAY. “Aeroplane v. Automobile,” great film for to-night (Friday) features a thrilling series of adventures with Arizona Bill. Morgan’s chief aviator .figures in a desperate race through space after Betty Morgan’s daughter, who has been kidnapped by a band of desperadoes headed by Clarke who lias been accused of selling trade secrets to a foreign power. While high in tlie air the hero sees tlie kidnapped Betty in a motor car, and swooping down to earth is captured. With Betty he escapes in an aeroplane which is wrecked by bombs thrown by the desperadoes who captures Bill and Betty. After being imprisoned in a mine they finally escape, the triumph of virtue and the defeat of vice being vividly portrayed. The supporting dramas and comedies form a fine setting and contrast to the main picture. On Saturday “ Fighting Death ” (3000 ft.) will evoke a series of thrills and the most profound excitement, compr.sing, as it does, a dive on horseback from cliffs, 58 feet high, into the , raging waters below ; a deatlii defying trip, hand over hand, on - a 250 ft. cable stretched over frozen rapids, another famous dive over ! Brooklyn bridge ; and other adi ventures of the most vivid type, t Other projections of comic, ■ dramatic, and scenic interest, i complete an excellent and varied r programme tie like of which is , unique, two Keystones round off - the whole. i Monday’s serif; of pictures t is epually good, ;jf f; </e ivsistmice r j being “Run to I- uTh,” a long i i and absorbing dele live mystery,

the 8000 feet of absolutely new and original pictures forming a programme of exceptional and varied interest.