ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 92, 4 September 1912, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE. NEW PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT. A most, attractive series of films, all new to New Plymouth, is announced fo* screening at the Empire Theatre to-night, lhere are no fewer than four d nuiia 8 which rival each other for first place on the list, ''The Lesser Evil," a story depicting the thrilling adventures of a beautiful fishermaiden who falls into the hands of a band of smugglers, is quoted by the leading kinematograph journal at Home as the finest single-reel subject the A.B. Company have ever released. This in itself speaks volumes. "Children whe Labor," -produced by the Edison- Company m conjunction with the United ■States National Child Labor Committee, is a film that must catch on. The subject of child-labor in the United State* of America is one that is being constantly discussed. The intensely interesting story which this film tells carries a theme whiqh ought to appeal stroiHy to every right-thinking man, woman and enild. Beginning with a remarkable symbolic scene of the toiling masses ot children 011 their way to the deadening work in the mills, the story unfolds itself by making us first acquainted with a situation which few people realise, men being thrown out of employment while children are taken from schools and from «n, ly A /1° work beyond -their Years. Uut of the Depths" is a strong vigorous idrama, floating with real red blood, one of those intense dramas which has made the Essaimy Company famous. In "Brown of Harvard," the helig actors are seen to advantage. There is a splendid boat race with shells in this, wliidi in itself IS a feature The programme ia not only stiong m the dramatic class, for it includes The Archipelago of Stockholm." a Nordisk scenic; "The Coming of the itw r™ ?! Ul ,? ational l««>n; "Pathe's Latest Gazette and "Sunny Cevlon." IJie .comic items are "The Lost 'Dog'* 'ihe'lktl' l^ m 1 f y ; DlIm P t y Circus," and . IJie Little Delicatessen Store," « fetcliInfmboT 6 El " SOn ' New m «sical q " u ' l ' l f supplied by the Empire "THE MISSING LINK." The theory of "the missing link" incrests most people, and an opportunity to those to whom the problem appeals of being further enlightened on the 6ubnen Mr. Philip Hereford (member ol the American Academy of Sochi *>T\ Wil ' lpfture on "MaSi relation t : lie Apes and the Lower Animals " Tha i lecture will be illustrated by specially prepared lantern slides J® every phase 0 f the subject from tin pnm.tive protoplasm, V rehk t orU nl stGis, and wii'ioim nt * life, to the well-knownapnendk-7°™ of men with tails) -and iiFm, ,'f lSe * relationship between i - ot Wends. Full partiXs ™ nounml -later. W " he an *