ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 93, 5 September 1912, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE. Variety is the keynote of the bi-weekly cnange of programme screened at the Lmpire Picture Palace last evening, before a crowded audience. A powerful dramatic subject is provided in "Out of the Depths," which depicts a young man swayed on the one side by honest motives and on the other by the fact that only money is wanting to provide the maintenance of an invalid mother at a sanatorium. He makes the sacrifice, iroobmg his employer. The mother jjoes away to health-recruiting climes, but when on the high road to recovery she accidentally learns of her son's imprisonment for embezzlement, of which of course, she had hitherto had no 'suspicion. The shock kills her. The scene changes, and the clerk-now a convictis shown sitting in the penitentiary He is of the right material, however,'and years after his release sees him rise to affluence and position. Enters then the blackmailer, who was a fellow employee of the ex-convict at the time of 'his downfall. Twice is the blackmailer sT cessful m extorting large sums from the now .prominent banker/who, when a«ain and sends him about his business. Th t latter immediately makes tracks to inform the banker's lover of her fiancee's eaily h»tory. but is providentially Y an ace of achieving his object. The exciting adventures of a beautiful fisher lass who falls into the hands of smut glers are well set, and i„ "The S r livil, while a splendid A.B. film was released in the shape of '■Children who Labor.'; The film.'which was p^S in conjunction with the U.S.A. National babe information and authentic Inn P«mngs. Included .in "Brown of far" yard" is an exciting picture of an ei"nt I ml-' o** 0 ** me '- <<The Coming o the St Z a " ' ntCTe *t'"«» educational sab cct, descnptive of wool-growin. n e «The ,K i eS v °, n the ™«c%ide there Aa usual, comics' we a f"t 1% programme. ltme of tl,e