AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1914, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

o— HIS MAJESTY'S PICTURES. The programme presented at His Majesty's Theatre last night proved excellent. "The Black Circle," 3000 ft. of Celio's dramatic sensation, takes pride of place. The various thrilling scenes in the society thieves' den in Chicago are marvellous, introducing great secret trap door devices. To-morrow evening (Wednesday) the Vitagraph masterpiece, 3000 ft, "The Tiger Lily," will be screened. Cleo Morin, suspecting that her husband, the famous maitre-de-ballet, of the New Opera House, Paris, thinks more of his work than of her, runs away with an ardent admirer. Ten years later, Cleo, who has become a famous actress, takes a villa near Florence, where she is soon surrounded, by a bevy of admirers, chief of whom is Albert Lamereux. Sidney Bretton, an artist, suggests that she goes to a mask ball as the Tiger Lily. She buys a magnificent Bengal tiger and takes him to the ball, where she makes a sensation. Morin comes to Florence and by chance takes the next villa to that of his ex-wife. She becomes infatuated with Sidney Bretton. The climax is reached through Bretton falling in love with Nina, Morin's daughter, and Cleo becoming jealous of her. Not recognising her husband, she speaks to the girl, threatening that if she will not restore Sidney to her she will set the tiger at her throat. Morin recognises her and cries: "Stop, do you not see that the girl is your own daughter?" The shock is too much for the woman, she totters and is picked up unconscious. "Quo Vadis," an entire show, will be shown on Friday and Saturday only. ROYAL ARTILLERY BAND. NEW PLYMOUTH SEASON. The New Zealand tour of the famous Royal Artillery Band, which has been the daily delight of thousands of people at the Auckland Exhibition, is being brought to a close at New Plymouth on Thursday and Friday, after which the Band will return for about ten days to the Exhibition. Two concerts will he given in New Plymouth, the first in the Theatre Royal on Thursday evening, and the second on Friday afternoon in the recreation grounds. At each concert a programme of an exceedingly attractive character will be played, and the audiences of the two. concerts will be treated to entirely different selections of music and enabled to realise in some degree the great versatility of the band, and the deeply interesting character of various classes of music interpreted by a "military" band of the highest standard. Not only are strictly popular prices being cbaj-ged, but special train arrangements have been made to enable visitors to reach New Plymouth with ease. ; and} excursion fares will be charged. The times of the HaweraNew Plymouth train have been altered so that it will arrive in New Plymouth in plenty of time for the concert, and it will leave about an hour after the sntertainment is over. The first concert, on Thursday evening, will have a particularly fine programme,, one which has evoked the greatest enthusiasm in every town visited by the ; band on its, present tour. It includes the grand march "Rienzi" (Wagner); Beethoven's splendid overture "Egmont"; Wagner's magnificent "Entry of the Gods into Valhalla" ; the ever popular overture to "William Tell," and not least in popular favor, the wonderfully performed piccolo solo "The Wren.' The box plan for, the evening concert is now open at Mr H. Collier's music warehouse, and tickets for unreserved sats may also be procured there. Mr Collier has also a plan of a large block of chairs which will be placed within the oval of the recreation grounds and which may bo reserved in the same way as the seats in the theatre.