ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 105, 19 September 1912, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EMPIRE PICTURES., Several ''star" iihns were included ill lust night's bi-weekly change of programme at the Empire Picture Palace. "The Flower of the Mormon Citj" was a feature drama which served to show liow things were run in Utah. A blacksmith became a convert, and settled down among the Mormons. His daughter grew up to be the flower o! Mormon City, and trouble ensued when a .Mormon elder demanded her hand in marriage. Tlie girl, who was in love with a young American, who was not one of the Hock, refused. Togelher tliey fled the city, but the girl was captured and taken back to the Mormon. There the elder forced on the marriage ceremony, which was, however, dramatically interrupted by the illness of the heroine. Before the marriage could be completed, she was heroically rescued by the "unbeliever." "How State# are Made" was an excellent picture, whiefc was in a sense very educative, although romance was its dominant feature. It showed families of emigrants—one iu particular—trekking westward to start iife afresh under new conditions. It was in the Tush by the new-comers to register their new-found sections that the dramatist was afforded ample scope for liis story, which concerned the heroic fight of a young wife in defence of her husband's "claim." The picture was excellently staged, and cleverly acted. Yet another star was released in the shape of an adaptation of Thomas Moore's beautiful Irish poem concerning Ellen "Pride of the Village." The picture—"You Remember Ellen"—was specially attractive o,n account of it having been photographed in Ireland. Pictures ©I Shakespeare's birth-place were among the good things comprised in the scenic film, '•Historical Warwickshire," while the "Oaumont Graphic," ''Potters of the Nile," and a brace of comics rounded of! the programme. "WHO'S WILLIAM?" Referring to "Who's William?" which.' is to be produced by the Wykeham-Nable Company at the Theatre Royal to-night, the Evening Post says: "Who's William, a farcical comedy by Harry Carver, is quite good business all the time and it was played last evening with exhilarating freedom and dash. The dialogue is bright and cheerj", and the company bright and' too, and tlie result is two or three hours of really enjoyable fun making. There is lint apace to outline the whole • story, but people fond of a evening at the Theatre should ask themselves, Who's William?" The box plan is open at Collier's, and day sales may be had at Hoffman's.