ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 131, 21 October 1912, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL PICTURES. A complete new programme will he presented to patrons at the Theatre Royal to-night. The new films are a well diversified lot including an intensely dramatic portrayal by the Vitagraph Company, "The Cylinders Secret," in which an innocent young fellow is acquitted of his father's murder by the evidence of the dictating machine.' There are also two humorous Vitagraph comedies ''Half a Hero" and "Who's to Win," the latest number of Pathc's London Gazette, a Western romance by Kalem.

"The Outlaw" and a very pretty nature" study of a domestic pet entitled "Studies iii Kittens." Colour photography is represented in a gorgeous picture "Marriage in the Reign of Louis XV." This brilliant selection will be shown to-night and Tuesday night only a.s the Theatre is engaged on Wednesday night.

"ROSE KATE" AT THE EMPIRE. Denmark as our forefathers knew it hundreds of years ago has given rise to much storied lore. It is a country of which even now \vc hear very little, and in consequence a istory based on incidents within its confines invariably arouses interest and curiosity. "Rose Kate" (or "A Race for Life"), a 3000-feet film which was released at the Empire Theatre on Saturday night, is Danish in thought, character, and action. The whole picture was photographed on Danish soil, and, what is still more interesting, was depicted by the famous Danish actors. The drama, quite apart from its enthralling interest, served to enlighten the audience on many points concerning the Danes, their style of architecture, and the like. Rome of the castle scenes were superb. The story itself was dramatic and sensational, with a deep tinge of quaintness, characteristic of its Danish setting. The plot was cleverly conceived, and excellently portrayed by the Danish actors who seemed to have their heart in the work. It involved a murder, and the wrongful condemnation of an innocent man, and showed the subtleties of a noble woman to secure a confession from the real murderer—the condemned man's brother. The race for life ensued when the heroine galloped and ferried across country just in time to save her lover from the headman's axe. There is something irrestibly "taking" about that popular actor Maurice Costello. A point in his favour is that he is always associated with only the best of films. One of these was "Nemesis," which figured Costello as a rising young medico whose wife proved faithless. In the end Nemesis descended on both his runaway wife and 'her unscrupulous lover in a manner as interesting as it was terrible. The other star film was "From Fireman to Engineer." It showed how a fireman secured promotion by catching up to a runaway engine, by means' of another locomotive, and sensationally rescuing the manager's daughter. The little girl was on the runaway. The new programme also included a splendid industrial film depicting Ihe making of lead pencils, Pathe's Animated Gazette, a viow of t'lift Henley Regatta i 1912, and tlivco comics. I

BERNARD'S PICTURES. To-night's change of programme at His Majesty's Theatre, Stratford, includes a number of star films and several excellent scenic, industrial and comic subjects.