ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 295, 10 June 1912, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

EMPERE PICTURES. A good all-round programme was submitted at' the Empire Theatre on Saturday night, before a large and appreciative audience. Pathe's Australian Gazette contained, as usual, a number of interesting topical events, the like of which serve to keep folk in New Zeaknd far more in touch with happenings o{ public interest on the Continent than by the help of a meagre cable serviee. "The Scandalmongers'' was a typical drama of the unpleasant episodes thai sometimes crop up in everyday life. The pieee, which was not overdrawn, was conspicuous for its strong moral to scandalmongers and society in general. The subject does not dwell wholly on the seamy side of life, and contains several bright and happy touches. A screamingly funny comedy was screened in the shape of the "Courtship of Miss Triffles," and it shared honors with "Captain Barnacle, diplomat," which was a less farcical but none the less interesting comic. Incidentally, it was responsible for some very clever acting. In "The Rose Rouge"'(or "His Life for a Flower") a French drama of exceptional merit and force was provided. It fias much about it that is gay and fascinating, and in marked contrast it contains pathetic and thrilling passages. It deals, in the main, with the hopeless quest of an Apache who falls in love with a beautiful Parisian—a lady of high degree. Despite his apparent foolishness, the audience could not but admire his self-sacrificing act in allowinj himself—he was innocent of the crime—to be executed as the murderer of the idolised but unscrupulous object of his affections. This was done to shield her honor. "The Battle of Pottsburg Bridge" was another star film, wonderfully descriptive and realistic. "The Wreck of the Delhi" was also graphically depicted, along with a sensational race between an aeroplane and a kidnapped battleship in the film dealing with "Lieut. Rose and the Stolen Battleship."