ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 211, 5 March 1912, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE. "THE MYSTERY OP A HANSOM CAB." Saturday's brilliant programme will be shown for the last time to-night. Tomorrow the management will again provide a "star" attraction for the pictureloving public in the form of a picture version of Fergus Hume's brilliant and sensational novel; "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab," a picture drama that will electrify all lovers of the sensational. The picture is a wonderfully vivid portrayal of Melbourne life, with scenes of the slums, streets, and side-lights of Melbourne society. Patrons will see the whole story enacted before their eyes in a manner that no book could convey, no drama represent. "The Mystery" is a drama of avarice, 'opportunity and a drama of life; rightly classed "the sensational picture of the year." The boot is one of the most widely known of all colonial novels, and to add special interest to the screening the management has secured the services of the wellknown eloeutionist, Mr. Alf. Boothman, who will give a graphic recital of the etory as the picture is thrown on the iheet.

GARDEN PARTY. Thursday, the 14th March, will see "Overdale," Mr. R. Coek's beautiful grounds, looking very gay. A merry gathering will throng the innumerable beauty spots, and congregate around the many amusing side-shows, and when the day is over a delighted crowd will acknowledge that they have had the seavery best garden party. The Park Tennis Club, who are organising the function, have a large and energetic committee at work, and no pains will be spared in carrying through a long and varied programme. MISS MARIE BAINES. Miss Marie Baines, whose English comedy company is to open in the Theatre Royal on Wednesday, is one of the few actresses who have enjoyed a I Royal command, she having been summoned to Sandringham last year to entertain Prince Edward and h'is guests on the occasion of his birthday party, a task which she undertook with satisfaction to everybody. She- is a typical Lancashire girl, with all the gaiety and spontaneity of her class, and her production of "Miss Lancashire, Limited," has won her the warmest praise from both the metropolitan and country Press ®f the Dominion. She is very ably supported by a company of artists, who are all new to the Dominion, and who were specially selected for the piece and the tour, with the result that ?he now pre-

gents as compact and capable a caste for the production of the play as it ii , possible to get. The box plan for the two nights is open at Collier's.