ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 256, 8 March 1911, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

BIOGRAPH PICTURES. The splendid set of moving pictures submitted at the Theatre Royal on Monday evening will be screened again tonight. The programme is particularly long (over 8000 ft), and as the subjects dealt with include scenery, educational, topical, dramatic and comic all tastes, will be freely catered for. CARROL'S DRAMATIC COMPANY. Edmund Carrol's Company will appear to-morrow night at*the Theatre Royal in the sensational and emotional drama entitled "The Man They Could Not Hang." The play, from the pen of Mr. Claude M. Murrcll, is written on facta, relating to the life of John Lee, who stood the ordeal of being placed three times on the hangman's scaffold for a crime of which to this day his innocence he proclaims. The piece naturally gives the author great scope for sceni as well as sensational effects. Mr. Roy Herbert, as John Lee, is an artist possessing exceptional ability, being natural and not too emotional. Miss Beatrice Morton has a part particularly suitable to her sympathetic style of acting. The comedy is in the hands of two welK known favorites, Miss Clare (iuorney and Mr. Geo. Gardiner. The remaining, characters are capably handled by snen well-known artists as' Mr. Harry Meyer* as Mr. Lee, senior; Mr. C. M. Koegan. as Rev. Denton (spoken of everywhere as a fine character study); Mr. George Keally as Sergeant Clarke; Mr. Mnnrfcft E Cnrtwright as Sir James Hayes; and. Miss Olga Silvester ns Mrs. Lee. The eombinatioH is a strong one all round 1 , and New Plymouth residents are «ure of a treat. Popular prices will be charged, and the box plan is at Collicr'R.