AMUSEMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 522, 30 November 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

EMPRESS PICTURES. To-night at the Empress Theatre will be screened a masterpiece in picture drama entitled "The Price of Beauty," a powerful and forcible story of life in high circles. The plot circles round a yuung girl just returning from school, who advised her mother, a beautiful widow, of her home-coming and engagement tu Count Leopold. The mother does not extend a warm welcome to the girl, and when the Count calls he is attracted by the exceeding beauty of the widow, and, forgetting his sweetheart, pays court to the mother, and during the dance the attention of the youne girl is attracted to the perfidy "of her sweetheart, who she observes kissing her mother. The girl is broken-hearted. leave 3 home, the mother marries the Count, who tires of her and goes abroad. _ The Countess becomes enamoured with a famous tenor and elopes with him, but pays attention to another man, which action causes a quarrel and the tenor quits. The Countess falls ill, and, although she again sees her husband and daughter, no reconciliation takes place before she dies. The Count fights a duel with the tenor, but' is mortally woundpd. The whole picture i 3 well acted and the scenery is worthy of the drama. Attractive and amusing supporting films will also be screened. The music will be in the capable hands of Mr H. Christain. HAYWARD'S PICTURES.

A few of the more attractive and interesting subjects to be screened at the Town Hall to-nght and Monday appear in our advertising columns. "Saved by a Telephone," "Tha Yellow Bird," "First Man In," and "The Great Prayer of the Arabs" (scenic) being amongst the more interesting of the films. Briefly the story of "Saved by a Telephone" is as fullows:—Mr Lawson is getting ready to depart from (he office. He has a large sum of money which he intends keeping in his own house over night. He is watched by Blinky Morgan. That night Lawson goes back to the office, leaving his wife in charge of the money. Morgan and Kelly enter the house and demand money from the woman. It is at this stage that the telephone plays an important part in the story.

CURLE'S PICTURES. On Wednesday evening at the rink, the programme will include several good dramas, including "Paid Back, a dramatic recital of a modern newspaper scoop, founded upon real incidents in the life of one of our great political factors. "Her Uncle s Consent," "The Struggle," and "The Social Secretary," are three dramas brimful of interest, "German Army Equestians" is a film showing the daring of men in the saddle. _ A good industial film is "Artistic Glass Works, while "Kerka Falls" is a very pretty scenic. . Several gaud comedies are also included in the programme.