ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 138, 29 October 1912, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TLIMMER-DEXXISTON SEASON. The chief topic of conversation among local playgoers at present is the forthcoming I'limnier-Denniston Company's two-nights' season, which commences at the Theatre Royal to-morrow night. Ifc is not very often that a company that bears fche prestige as this visits New Plymouth. The plays to be staged are of a very high order, as is the company, which includes Messrs Geo. S. Titheradge, Hurry Plimmcr, A. E. Greenaway, Hurry Sweeney, Mrs. Robert Brough, Misses Beatrice Day, Lizette Parks, Temp# Tigott and Beatrice Uchler. After all we havo heard about "Nobody's Daughtc," which will he the opening production, we will now have the opportunity of passing our own opinion on the play. "Nobody's Daughter" is the English theatrical success of the year, and certainly none the less the Australian. Tlie plot is an extremely interesting oqe. The London correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, writing of this play, said: "I do not know who orders your dramatic fare, but "Nobody's Daughter" is a gem worth having. I never saw anything more touching, while at times I laughed, but it left me, when the curtain fell, with my eyes full of tears I could not staunch, and this for so hardened a play-goer is some tribute to th« merits of the play. It is a domestic play with many sharply contrasted phases of character." On Thursday night Oscar Wilde's brilliant and scintillating comedy, "A Woman of No Importance,® will be staged, with Mrs. Brough in the title role and Mr. George S. Titheradge as Lord Illingworth, his original creation. The box plans are at Collier's; day sales also at Collier's.

EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE. To-night is the last opportunity that picture patrons will have of viewing the fine picture, "Love's Revenge." The supporting items are all extremely interesting, and the film showing the accomplishments of the phenomenal blind boy, Woolcott Coombes, is certainly one ef the most instructive pictures the management lias yet secured. There will be the usual complete change to-morrow night, including "Across the Isthmus of Panama," another great picture of the stupendous engineering feat of forming the Panama Canal. The management notify patrons that'this picture is entirely different to the film shown 'on the opening programme at the Empire Theatre.

THEATRE ROYAL. Last night ushered in a change of programme at the Theatre Royal, which was a distinct advance on many of its predecessors, good as they were. The light dramatic subjects were particularly entertaining. Special mention must ba made of "Lulu's Doctor," a Vitagrapk film, which starred Maurice Costello ana a winsome little maid of tender years—also a member of the accomplished Costello family. The former figured in ths role of John Lewis, a physician who was in love with a charming girl. He wrot» to his fiancee saying that he was coming to marry her. As she had just received a letter from her brother-in-law, | asking her to come and mind his' child I sl)e asked her lover to wait for tw» years. The doctor thought this was an excuse to get rid of him, and the couple parted in anger, and the girl went out West. Eventually she returned, bringing' the child with her. As fate would have j it they took rooms near the doctor, and one day the child, being left alone, 1 broke her doll. She toddled off to the I physician to mend it, and after a series of'interesting incidents, involving some clever child-acting, proved the uncon- ! seious means of reuniting and reconcilingthe old lovers. "The Fatal Mirror" was- : a more powerful dramatic subject, cast on different lines. It was of unusual interest, on account of it being descriptive of the quondam bitter enmity « Western America between cattlemen ana sheep run-holders. In the eyes of cowboys the men who had to do with sheep were worse than criminals, and shoulo ) be shot down or hounded out of ta« I country. The theme of the piece was as enthralling as it was cleverly inter* preted. A quaint and fascinating litttt' comedy-drama, "The Twins," unfolded a very picturesque story with unusual situ* ations. The Tannhouser Company waswell represented in another light drama;, "The Light that Failed." The scenicswere well up to the mark, and include® two industrial feature films, "Rangoo* and it* Environs" and "A Tobacco Plan*tation."