AMUSEMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 539, 5 February 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

EMPRESS PICTURES. At the Empress Theatre to-night. —Resurrection of Nick Winter."—A gang of thieves have chosen for their operations an art museum. The direc tor of the museum has discovered the leader of the gang and has had him arrested. In revenge the other members kidnap his daughter. The old man gets Nick Winter to take up the case. Nic succeeds in travelling with the thieves in their motor, but his disguise ia penetrated, and he is taken gagged to the riverside. He succeeds in overpowering his captor, and putting his own papers of identity throws him into the river. Next morning the papers advertise the great detective'sjdeath. The thieves think the detective to be dead, and this enables him to lead them to a country house where their capture is affected by the blowing up of the house. The.realistic effect of this last scene stamps it as a masterpiece. "OUR MISS GIBBS." Of the performance as given by the company to appear at Te Kuiti Town Hall on Tuesday next, 11th inst., a contemporary says: "The theatre, spacious as it is, proved utterly inadeaccommodate all who turned up last evening to witnes the production of the popular musical cumedy "Our Miss Gibbs," by the "Merry Widow" Opera Company, under the direction of Mr D. Bourke O'Connor. Seldom indeed has such a rush for admission been seen at the hall and scores of people had to be reluctantly refused admission. Every seat in front of the house was reserved, and even with extra seating accommodation provided, and the orchestral reserve invaded, that did not nearly relieve the crush. At half-past 7 o'clock the gallery and back of the house were filled to overflowing, and so enormous was the crowd awaiting admission that it was 8.30 before all were seated in front and the curtain went up. The audience, besides being a record one, was enthusiastic to a degree, and the management of "Miss Gibbs" may be congratulated on the signal success achieved, for the comedy was one of the finest ever produced in the ton. The success of "Our Miss Gibbs" is due mainly to the many catchy sonas and sparkling wit and humour with which it abounds and its remarkable popularity in Sydney and elsewhere may be attributed to these, it is a very bright and cheerful entertainment, in which much of the success is due to the principals—Mr D. O'Connor as the Hon. Hughie Pierpont, Mr Geo. Edwards as Timothy Gibbs the Yorkshire Cousin, and Miss Eva Moore as Miss Mary Gibb*. supported as they were by a most capable company. The box plan is at McColl's, where seats may be booked without extra charge.