ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 48, 15 July 1912, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE EMPIRE PICTURES. Saturday night was change night at the Empire Picture Palace, which waspacked to the doors, and if e.-ccellenefc possesses any magnetism . the present, programme will draw crowded house* every time it is screened. There is something in the programme to entertain, instruct and amuse, which should please all tastes. The star drama, if it is fair to so style or designate one when all ar» of such high merit, is entitled "Chaine of an Oath." It is a Vitagraph Russian drama and'its theme .revolves around a. young peasant girl's struggle, "love versus duty." Dazzled by the wealth displayed by a returned peasant, who hasemigrated and been successful, the peasant girl decides that she will emigrate » and seek her fortune too. Before going, however, she is bound by an inviolate' oath to return and marry a peasant named Gregory. We .follow her to America, and see,her comfortably established as nurse maid in congenial surroundings. Anxious to improve herself she attends a night school, and the' usual happens. She falls in love with a handsome young student. To his pleadings, she is yielding when her oath is recalled to her. With pain she sends him away and sorrowfully goes back to keep her oath. He follows, and the dramatie -, meeting, with the ultimate triumph of love, are wonderfully portrayed. The other dramas are "Two Old Pals," a remarkable Selig animal picture, in which Toddles, the Selig elephant, takes the principal role, "The Twelfth Juror," a Tannfoauser production, and "The Little Organist," an Edison drama. The topical series is particularly interesting, includ- ' ing news of the ill-fated Titanic and Atlantic icebergs. "Early Morning Reflections" is a farcical comedy that keeps the audience in a roar throughout. Whilst larking a lieutenant's Talet breaks a valuable full length mirror. He is horror-struck, but suddenly conceives the idea of impersonating his master from the other side of the mirror. This he successfully does 1 , though his master, who haa.had a night out, can hardly believe" his" eyes when he sees his reflection. He rubs his eyes, makes all sorts of facial contortions, which are faithfully imitated. He even tries to polish the mirror. The whole is screamingly funny. At last the servant girl comes in, . and while he rushes to embrace her the valet knocks over the mirror and makes the master believe he has done so. The other comics are also mirth producer*. x