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AMUSEMENTS.

HAYWARD'S PICTURES. Another grand change of programme will be screened at the Town Hall to-night. The atar film is entitled "The Bread Carrier of Paris, or Wrongly Accused," and is over three thousand feet in length. Labroue shows the plana of an invention to Jacques Garaud. He is interrupted by his son, who comes in with a toy horse. The horse is broken and the boy stuffs paper into a hole in its side. Garaud is in love with Jeanne Fortier, the housekeeper. Jeanne is a widow, with a little girl, to whom the master's son gives the broken horse. Garaud makes love to her, but a quarrel ensues. After Jeanne's departure Garaud gues to Labroue's private rooms and attempts to burgle the safe. Labroue comes into the room and is killed. Garaud sets fire to the works aided by the watchman, and then leads the world to believe ha is dead. Jeanne is arrested for the crime, and committed to prison from which ahe escapes after fifteen years. She obcains a situation as a bread carrier. A change of scene, and Lucie, Jeanne Fortier's daughter, is seen going over her effects atfer the death of her foster mother. She finds the old toy horse, and a mysterious envelope bearing instructions that it is to be opened on her twentieth birthday. Living in the same building is a young man, who falls in love with her. This is Robert Labroue. After many exciting adventures and complications in which Garaud, who has changed his name to Harmand, plays a prominent part, the papers which were accidentally secreted in the toy hcrse are discovered. Garaud's guilt is disclosed and he is arrested, with his accomplice, for his crimes. Robert and Lucie find happiness in marriage. CURLE'S PICTURES. The star picture at the Rink on Wednesday evening next is an historical subject well known to every reader of history. Cardinal Wolsey, "the man who preferred a martyr's death rather than sink a principle, even to please his king." This was the beginning cf the establishment of the English Church in Great Britain. Pictures of this description are only too rare and should draw a good house. Other good dramas are "The Girl at the Keys'" a story of wireless telegraphy and "What Fate Ordained." Pictures of general interest are "Potteries of the Nile," "Reedham Figure Drill," "Seeing New Orleans." The comedies will as usual be found bright and clean. "Broken Hearts," "Fashion and its Consequences" being included in the number.

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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 524, 7 December 1912, Page 5

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AMUSEMENTS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 524, 7 December 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 524, 7 December 1912, Page 5

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