AMUSEMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 517, 13 November 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

CURLE'S PICTURES. Lovers of good pictures are reminded that the great star film, "The Great Circus Catastrophe," will be ahown to-night, and will be well worth seeing. For the change tomorrow evening, a nicely arranged series has been secured. "Broncho Billy's Bible" tells the story of how from the division of the proceeds of a robbery Bill laughingly puts a Bible in his pocket. Later on he catches a mate cheating at cards, in the row he receives a bullet, but the Bible in his pocket saves him. A terrible chase ensues, and with what consequence the readers will see in the picture. "The Vagabonds," "The Passers-by," "Rice and Old Shoes" are all good dramas. Among the comedies "Two Knights in a Bar Room" will be found very entertaining. Some good scenics, comedies and Pathe's Gazette go to make a good entertainment.

HAYWARD'S PICTURES. The programme to be presented by Hayward's Pictures at the Town Hall on Friday night is well above the standard, and evidences to a Dronounced degree the splendid range and organisation of the management. The performance is to take the shape of a benefit to the Te Kuiti Fire Brigade, an institution which has already done yeoman service for the town. It goes without saying that the public will respond generously to such a laudable object and make Friday evening's performance memorable by a bumper house. The programme has been specially designed for the occasion, the special feature being a magnificent Vitagraph comedy entitled "The Picture Idol." Beth Ward, a school girl, has fallen in love with Howard Hanson, a picture play actor. Her parents learn of this, and her father calls on Howard, and they arrange a plan to cure her of her foolishness. Howard dines with the Wards, Beth is enraptured, until he exhibits such a stounding manners, and persists upon bawling, then she begins to see some defects in her idol. In return Howard asks the Wards to his place. He arranges with his room mate to impersonate his wife t and employs several children from the neighbourhood to represent his children. Mr Ward and Beth call, and she is so shocked that she is glad to escape. Other subjects include an exceptionally wide range of dramatic, comic, and educational films.