ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 60, 1 September 1911, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

SAUNDERS' PICTURES. DEACON BENEFIT. Mr. Saunders has generously offered the whole gross takings at Whiteley IDill to-night to this deserving case. The tickets have been well pushed by an energetic committee, and although it is more than probable thai large numbers who have 'bought tickets in sympathy with the object will not attend, yet we strongly advise all ticket-holders desirous of viewing the pictures to put in an early appearance at Whiteley Hall tonight.

"A TICKET IX TATT'S." I Ask any man in the street what a ticket in Tatt's. means, and the odds. ar« lie will be able to tell you, although that lug sweep-making concern is now • banned, in a legal sense, so far as this country is concerned. "A Ticket in I Tatt's." has a. moral for all young gentlemen who will a-gambling go the moral that easily-gotten gains are as' easily dissipated, and that fine friends' are more than numerous when the coin is spinning round in a free spirit of gay abandonment and not a thought of "the morrow. Apart from this the picture, lias exceptional merit, judged purely as an illustration of the strides which kinematography is making every day. Perhaps the finest and most exciting picture of the whole film is the steeplechase scene in which an exceptionally ( large field is shown over some very difficult country. Several horses ooine to grief during the running of the event, and one is left, to marvel at the manner in which the experienced cross-coun-try rider escapes serious accident. This picture, alone, is worth seeing. The central figure in the story itself is a young man named Hare, who loses his billet because of Jiis race-going propensities. lie has a wife and child to provide for, and in a moment of desperation sends for a ticket in the next sweepstake. As. luck would have it, he draws the favorite and duly lands the coveted prize after agreeing to pay the owner of the horse a third of the booty. A wild carousal follows, and by a piece of trickery and the placing of a bloodstained knife in Hare's hands, one Falcon succeeds in making Hare believe that he is the perpetrator of a cold-blooded murder, which Falcon himself committed. Bare makes his escape and writes a letter to his wife admitting his plight. Subsequently Falcon and his wife quarrel, and in her dying moments the woman confesses that Falcon is the guilty party, and Hare is restored to his family. • The picture gjiowing Hare's mental afflictions during the time he is hiding, and the manner in which the manufacturers of the film have worked in illusory effects depicting the terrible nightmares of the supposed murderer while he sleeps on a rude' bed, are at once striking and powerful. Another fiiie_ portion' of the picture is that depicting a race on the Adelaide Racing Club's course. Owing to the heavy expense of securing this film the price will be one shilling to all parts 01" the house.