AMUSEMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 532, 11 January 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

EMPRESS PICTURES. Amongst tbe subjects in the new aeries to be screened at jhe Empress Theatre to-night is one described «s a fascinating story, told and thnllingly developed entited Black Blood " The plot has been written with most conscientious care. There is a .general glow of warm heartednesa reflected through its characters. They are actuated, not by distorted subtle ties of motive, but by plain straightforward, healthy passions. The story is of the love of an Indian doctor, under circumstances-mos> romantic. The series of exciting happenings throughout the unfolding of the drama afford the author unlimited opportunities for a display of many remarkable incidents. The management wish to draw public attention to the candle competition. Every parson paying for admission to the pictures is entitled to one coupon to be used in the competition.

JANSEN. GREATEST TRANSFORMIST FROM AMERICA. On Tuesday night Jansen and his company will perform in the Town Hall. A Wellington paper says:— Janseri is- no ordinary transformist. In those transforations which have distinguished him he has departed well from the beaten track, and has continued far beyond the point where so many others have stopped. He does everything neatly and quickly, and with the greatest ease, and act succeeds act with such rapidity that you lose count. The Death Chamber is one of the best of the mechanical perplexities, and mystified the audience as much as anything else Jansen did. Dressed as a gaoler, the transformist is forced into an electrical chair, the curtains are drawn and while the ladies look ou in horrified expectancy, the current is switched on. Then the curtains are drawn back to—disclose no Jan sen. By some strange means, and is it seemed in full view of the audience all the time, Jansen had contrived to change characters with another person, for the audience discovered, after .finding that nobody had been electrocuted, that Jansen was on the stage -before them—where he had been throughout. The piece de resistance is Jansen's leviation act. The lady who is the subject of the performance is duly hypnotised and placed upon a couch. A cloth is thrown completely over her, and then, as if in answer to the will of the magician, she rises into the air. No support or lifting medium of any kind can be seen, and the delusion is heightened by Jansen passing a hoop across the floating figure. The audience looks on in rapt amazement. Then the figure slowly sinks again. Jansen approaches, snatchse away the cloth, arid discloses —nothing. Just at the moment the audience- had thought the trick over, the supreme poser was presented. Jansen does this better than any other entertainer in his line who has been in Wellington for years, and the effect obtained is quite extraorinary. These, however, are but a few of his acts. Throughout the entertainment he rains them down in rapid succession, and the attention is never relaxed."

PREMIER PICTURES (LATE CURLE')S.-

Patrons at the Rink were well rewarded last Wednesday for spending the evening there. The management intend keeping up to the usual high standard films, none but the best from Fullers, Auckland and Wellington, being shown. Next Wednesday and Thursday the pictures to be shown are of an exceptionally attractive nature, including "The Touch of a Child s Hand" and "Me and Bill," dramatic; "Rhine Falls," scenic; "Melbourne Cup," topical, etc., and a host of others equally entertaining. On Thursday there will be an entire change of programme of sensational dramas. The full list appears on Wednesday.