ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 271, 13 May 1912, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

EMPIRE PICTURES. ,*

There was a touch of "infinite variety" n-bout the change of programme s.i:,ii..a,d ai. :l le Empire Picture Theatre on Saturday evening. It contained something to please the most fastidious tastes. "The End of Robespierre," which Carlyle has portrayed so realistically in his "French Revolution," was treated equally as dramatically as a cinematograph subject. To those who have read of the revolution it is doubly interesting. It was faithfully descriptive of Paris at the time of the fateful end of teh reign of the Louis dynasty, and the untold horrors when the sanscullottes held sway. Apart from the sorry plight of "les aristocrats," the sympathies of the audience were drawn towards the exciting episodes of two lovers of high d'pgree, The photographic effects of "The End of Robespierre" weir« on a lavish .scale. 'Who's Who in Doggyland" was a novel film, and afforded glimpses of canines of almost every known breed. Tn "The Teamster" those present were provided with an "out West" drama, dear to the heart of most patrons of moving pictures. It dealt mainly with an encounter with a gasg of Mexican desperadoes and the selfsacrificing act of an unrequited lover, in the person of a teamster. "As in a looking glass" reflected two possibilities in life, which man—especially the prolific sower of "wild oats"—'often finds himself confronted with. How virtue triumphed in the end, mainly owing te the game of imitating "What Father Does," on the part of a, quartette of child actors, won many plaudits from the audience. The potentialities of hypnotism were forcibly demonstrated in a detective story entitled "The Inner Mind." On the scenic side, "The. Isle of Markin" showed quaint Hollanders at work «nd at play, and photographs of some picturesque landscapes. The comic element was largely represented. "Caught with the Goods" was cleverly descriptive of how the tables were turned on a well-meanning but unfortunate band of purists desirous of exposing a gambling saloon. Other comics were: "Willio Wise and the Motor Boat," "Why he gave up," and "A Living Peach." Pathe's Australian fiazettc was also screened.

THE NORWOODS. To-night Professor Norwood and Miss Winifred Norwood will open a return season in New Plymouth. The excellent and arousing 'entertainment they gavt here quite recently is still fresh' in the minds of theatregoers, and the company is assured of a good house. Referring to his performances in Wellington the Dominion says: "After seeing Professor Norwood's remarkable demonstration at the Opera House one is inclined to believe that there may be some justification for the claims made in the advertisement, if those taking up the study could achieve anything like the prorficicncy of the. visitor. It is, 0 f course opni to anyone to doubt the extent of nis powers to dominate the mind of 70 per cent, of those who ventured on the stage, as was the case on Saturday evening; to even doubt that anv of toe "■ne were under the hypnotic influence; but doubters must then concede that Professor Norwood travels with him a company 0 f highly-skilled actors, salar.es must he a continual source of worry to th;e management. To the latter alterantive we cannot subscribe. Professor Norwod makes no attempt to diswitT, t* S ° m ?" S sublets trav, with him; so they did with Professor Kennedy and Madame Cora, profes jonal exponents of hypnotism of a P coupe o decades ago, still these people are ow tamly sent to sleep and as surely 1 TZ S s funnv thin,, S„? ™ Ug f Stion of th * »«hI. The box plan is open at CollferV