ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 180, 29 January 1912, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

EMPIRE PICTURES. | '"fHE PRIMAL CALL." The new programme of pictures at the Empire Theatre on Saturday afternoon and evening drew large audiences. The , very human sermon preai&ed by "The ■ Primal Call" is pointed enough to ba ■ understood by every adult, and suggests ' the eternal truth that the normal woi man still retaking primiipe instinct * > enough to prefer the red-blooded human - animal. The materials are simple ♦ pnough. Society, parents down on'their luek. It is necessary to sell their daugh- - ■ ter to the highest bidder in the matrimonial market. Hence her engagement '' to a millionaire, She isn't keen on millionaires, but loves men. At the sea: side she sees the primal man—a large, full-blooded person in a bathing suit and with bulging muscales and a masterful face. She coquettes with him over the small matter of a shoe with sand in it. - He is rough and masterful—civilisation hasn't killed his. instinct to regard woman as the person who obeys. Subsequently the primal man descries the woman walking with the modern millionaire. He, gives chase, "outs" the modern person with a vigorous thump, and in a later melee strews the sands with .various men who come to the rescue. One picture discbvers the primal man and the woman at a meal. He roughly disdains her sandwiches and produces meat, ordering her to gather wood. She meekly gathers it. After the melee, with the men the primal person ..gathers the girl in one arm, and a stray parson in the other, races for a boat and clambers in. They pull- to a steamer, go aboard, and are married. The story is a very powerful one! A star story is "The Tenderfoot's Round-up" of the dashing cowboy •order. It tells how a young husband gambles and is otherwise a "rotter" and "makes good" on his brother's cattle, ranch. The JTboys" make much of his, shoot the ground from under him, rope him and made him ride a bucking broncho. He is perhaps the best rider on the ranch, and a Jarge sized takedown for the boys. Subsequently, when they desire to frighten him some more, he "takes hold," wades into the whole outfit with fcls fists, and gains the re- ; fepect of those wild cowpunchers. Last scene, the tenderfoot back home in his cowboy rig, wife glad to see him and the new baby ready for dad's proud examination. There is a stirring railway drama of '62, wherein is much chasing and shooting, blowing up of railway lines and so on, much that is new about the Delhi Durbar, a fine glimpse of the country round Vesuvius, "Rebellious Blos■soms," in "which a naughty schoolgirl (who is really in full bloom.) is very angry because her widowed mother threaten* to maryy a man. There is much laughter and tears, and the inevitable i ending. Ma marries her man, and the blossom blooms at church with his son—everybody delighte/1. A Napoleon comedy is gqpd. An admirer of the great soldier, from a close study of his exploits, gets a bee in his bonnet and drills everything in sight, with comic effects. Through this comedy excellent moving pictures are shown of some of Napoleon's battles and defeats. There are many other scenic, dramatic afod comic films, the whole forming a splendid entertainment.