AMUSEMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 557, 9 April 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

EMPRESS PICTURES. "The Child Stealers." Sarah Vatier leaves hospital after a long illness penniless and without a relation except a baby daughter She is found "by Louis Cervier, a child stealer, who gives her shelter, Cervier hears that De Cordaillon has a baby daughter, whose godmother has left her a fortune, which is to be in the hands of the father until ihe baby attains a majority. The man determines to steal the child and hold her to ransom, and, under the threat of allowing her own child to perish, he forces Sarah to agr 3e to aid him. At the very moment Sarah 13 being dragged into a gulf of crime, De Cordaillon is bending over the cot of his dead baby, \lone in the house, Cordaillon conceives the idea of burying his child and buying another, so that he may retain the fortune. The following day Cordaillon goes to Paris, where he meet Cervier, who agrees to sell him a child. Soon after, however, attempts to steal a child in the park, but h 9 is seen and arrested. Mean while the nurse had returned Sarah's baby to her mother's lodgings, leaving a note to explain. imagines the child is for Cordaillon, and gives it to him. After bis departure she finds the note, and realising it is her own baby, she iB about to rush out in pursuit when the police enter and arrest her for complicity with Cervier in child-stealing. Twenty years later Sarah is released from prison, and is given a letter of introduction to Helen | De Cordallon, whom she recognises as her daughter, but she thinks it better J not to disclose her own identity. Cervier has escaped from pris>n, and he levies blackmail on Uordaillpn, at length even requesting Helen's hand in marriage. PREMIER PICTURES. To-morrow evening the above pictures will be screened at the Rink, and the programme is one of excep tional merit including educational, scenic, dramatic and comic films. The Selig Film Company have a very stirring drama entitled "Partners," and a particularly interesting subject to be screened ia "Travels in Turkey." i Only first release films from Fullers' Auckland and Wellington,are shown by the Premier Picture Co. THE MERRYMAKERS. Friday night at the Town Hall will see the first appearance of the above entertainers, who seem to have made a great name for themselves by having specialities of a novel nature. The star turn of ,the programme is D'Almaine, .billed as America's leading hypnotist. He will collect his subjects from the audience, and endeavour to make them do various hypnotic suggestions which have created quite a furore of laughter in other towns visited. He than will perform what is known as bloodless surgery, showing how an operation could be performed on a subject while under | the power of hypnotism. D'Almaine will perform a hypnotic blindfold drive in the street at 3 o'clock on Fri day. Other artists will assist to make an enjoyable evening's programme, among whom are Sharp and Fist, American bellringers and zylophonists, whose performance is regarded as unique of its kind. Miss Phillis Cremer is just from the FullerBrennan circuit, having been undei that management for two years, anc well known comedienne of rar« ability. Collins' and Clarke, pafctei ; comedians, in a comicality entitlec "Gwendoline" Fred Carlson, a balla< i singer of repute; Pip Evans, come ; dian, and Perce Lorraine, singer o i Scotch songß. A portion of the Dro I gramme will be given to conjurin) : when several illusions new to thi part will be introduced. There seem I to be a variety of items to suit al t patrons, and ought command goo business.