ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 157, 2 January 1912, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

EMPIRE PICTURES. On Saturday night the change of programme at the Empire Theatre attracted a very large audience, the programme being of such a nature as to make everyone thoroughly well satisfied with it. "The Price of Beauty" was the leading piece shown, and represented a stirring drama of high life. A beautiful widow receives a letter from her daughter, at college, announcing her engagement to Count Leopold. A dinner is given in honor of it, and during am interval his fiancee's mother offers him a flower, and as she is putting it in hie buttonhole, he kisses her. The daughter sees him, and becomes heartbroken at his unfaithfulness, and leaves home after trying to kill her mother. The Count eventually marries .the widow, but after two years tires of here. They receive an invitation/ to attend an evening at which a great tenor was to sing, but as the Count did not care to attend ho went abroad. The Countess attended, and the singer fell in love with her, and an elopement followed. During the travels the Countess met another admirer during the temporary absence of the singer, who returns much enraged and leaves her. Then she becomes mortally ill, aild asks for her husband and .daughter to be brought to her. They come, but the daughter will hot be reconciled to the Count. The Count fights a duel with the Italian singer, who proves the better marksman, and the Count gets shot. Amongst the other star items were the picturesque scenes of France, a comedy "How She Conquered," a Pathe Gazette, "A Surprise i Party," a Vitagraph Comedy, "Latent Sparks," and "Know-all." "After fiftyl years, or the Golden Wedding" was/a pathetic and interesting scene, depicting the life after 50 years, and the aged man tells of what happened in the haopy days gone by, and relates incidents up ; to the present day. As a scenic picture of Cians" would •be difficult /to surpass, and the scenes' that are plied on the screen give one an excellent idea of the ibcauties of Nature. The same programme will be repeated to-nigljt. To-morrow night it will be succeeded by a new one, including including; the great star film, "Dante's Inferno/' said, to be the most awe-inspir-ing spectacle- ever shown on the kinematograph machine.