ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 84, 29 September 1911, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

"A ROYAL DIVORCE. " •Whiteloy Mall waa packed last evening to witness the famous historical drama "A lloyal Divorce." whith, it is no exaggeration to say, is one of the finest films the eineniatographer has ever produced, and certainly about the roost attractive dramatic piece Mr. Saunders has yet shown. Everyone is acquainted with the story of the life of the .-rctt Napoleon, his wonderful exploits as statesman, engineer, soldier, and ruler, his wooing of and lnarriaae with the fascinating Josephine, the tragic royal divorce, and how his star began to want so soon after his marriage with tilie daughter of his old foe. the Emperor ot Austria, and his ultimate end, broken in spirit and health on the island of desolate St. Helena. But however well one may .lie, versed in the history of this great character, one can never get tho same insight from the printed word of gifted biographers like Hose on the ont side or Abbott on the other into the stirring incidents of the life of Xnpoleon as one can from the series of moving pictures presented last night. The representation is as life-like as art ran make it._ One forgets for the nonce when the brilliant scenes in which Napoleon moved are exhibited that one is looking at animated .pictures. They seem so realistic. The coloring j s as perfect as it can be—battles, the famous retreat from Moscow-, the marriage scenes, the coronation. escape from Elba, bis farewell to the. Old Guard, and his incarceration on St. Helena, The lilin i* an unusually long one, taking up half of (he programme. The other half is devoted to fine seenics, comics and dramas. ''The Knyal Divorce" will be again shown this evening, and those who have not seen it should mako « strong- effort to do so. It is worth the amount charged for admission twice over.