ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 139, 30 October 1912, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE.

The new Empire programme showing to-night is a revelation in picture form, and deals with that variety of subjects that has made, and will keep the picture entertainment a popular form of amusement. The educational possibilities of the kinematograph are great, and full advantage has been taken of that greatness in the Selig film showing this evening, "Across the Isthmus of Panama." It shows in a series of remarkably clear views, the progress of one of the greatest engineering feats the world has ever known. Among other things is shown the great canon, nine miles in length, cut through the mountains with the aid of the wonderful modern machinery. Another star subject is a thrilling railway drama by Gaumont entitled, "Their Livesfor Gold," and there is an Edison pourtrayal of an old war veteran answering his last roll call. It k entitled -'The Sunset Gun."

THEATRE ROYAL PICTURES. Owing to the Theatre Royal beingotherwise engaged there will be no pictures showing at the Theatre .Royal either to-night or Thursday night. On Friday the pictures will again occupy the Theatre, when a complete new programme will be shown. The management advertise a big scoop in the flint world that should considerably popularise the Theatre Royal Pictures amongst patrons of this admirable form of entertainment.

PLIMMER-DENNISTOX SEASON. This evening at the Theatre Royal will usher in the brilliant Plimmer-Denniston Company's keenly awaited season. "Xo- , body's Daughter," the opening production, recently ran for nine weeks at the Palace Theatre, Sydney, and for eight weeks at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne. Already Xew Zealand playgoers have echoed the English and Australian verdicts, and have taken this delightful play to their hearts. "Nobody's Daughter" has been described as the most compelling play produced in Australia during the last decade. The situations are delightfully true to life, and in the finale to the third act, when the unsuspecting and up till then goodnatured and jovial husband discovers that his wife is the mother and his friend the father of the illegitimate girl, the audience is held spellbound. It is a dramatic scene calculated to thrill every pulse. The charming domestic touches to the drama are capable of bringing tears to the eyes of the most hardened playgoer. To-morrow night Oscar Wilde's brilliant comedy, "A Woman of No Importance," will be staged in all its completeness. A fact that adds interest to the production is that in the two characters of Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Arbuthnot Mr. G. S. Titheradge and Mrs. Brough will appear in their original creations. The box plans and day salcß ar* at Collier's.