AMUSEMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 540, 8 February 1913, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

EMPRESS PICTURES

To-night, Monday, and Tuesday.— "A Ghost of the Fast." A drama dealing with life in a travelling show and afterwards on the concert platform. A girl leaves home and friends to marry a man in a lower Btation of life. The husband takes to drink and his wife has to support herself and children by performing with a band of strolling players. One child dies and the mother in despair leaves the old life and goes back to her home. She is received by her parents and takes up musicial training. A manager hearing her voice at a charity concert, induces her to take up singing in earnest. She is a great success on the stage, and the manager aßks her to marry him, but the knowledge of her husband, who still lives, keeps them apart. The nondescript husband discovers his wife at a concert and attempts to lay hands on her, but is shot accidentally in a struggle v with the attendants. The bar to the loverß* marriage having been removed the story ends in a happy manner. There will be tho usual splendid supporting programme of dramaß, comedies, scenics, etc. "OUR MISS GIBBS." At the Town Hall, Te Kuiti. on Tuesday next, the Merry Widow Opera Company, under the direction of Mr D. B. O'Connor, will present, by arrangement with J. C. Williamson, Ltd., the woild-famed comic opera, "Our Miss Gibbs," which had such a phonomenal run in Australia, and put up box office records for Wellington and the other big centres of New Zealand. Press reports to hand refer in highly complimentary terms to the performance and performerß alike, and a real treat should be in store for lovers of comic opera. The company, which is thirty-five strong., carries an orchestra of its own. The principals include " Miss Eva Moore, Miss Ida Leggatt, Miss Cliff Palmer, Miss Bertha Hunter, Mr D. B. O'Connor, Mr John Ralston, Mr J. H. Mitchell and Mr Geo. Edwards. The opera will be staged on an elaborate scale and an in the same complete manner as characterised its production in Wellington. The box plan is at McColl's. The millinery display in the first act is being arranged by Messrs Green and Colebrook. PREMIER PICTURES. The above pictures at the Rink on Wednesday and Thursday were attended by a large and enthusiastic gatherings. The films now showing are of the first order J and are well worth a visit. The programme to be shown on Wednesday being one that should not be missed by the pictureloving public and on Thursday the entire change of programme, including the star film "Tragedy of the Desert," one of the most powerful dramas ever produced.