ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 155, 18 November 1912, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL PICTURES. The management are to-night Showing on the new programme a picture that is claimed to eclipse any star film yet placed upon the picture market. The masterpiece in question is a circus story (and a genuine Nordisk production) entilled "The Great Circus Catastrophe." A New Plymouth resident saw this picture in the Queen's Theatre, Auckland, > last week, and states that it is the ; greatest picture he has ever seen, and ] as this gentleman is a regular picture patron, he should be well qualified to judge the merits of this production. The - popularity of Nordisk films has led a "• great many other makers to class their productions as Nordisks thereby ensuring a popular reception. The present film is a genuine Nordisk masterpiece, and the greatest picture jet produced by this studio. The public are particularl,? notified that this attraction (flii j only ha shown on Monday and Tuesday, j and that there will be no increase 'in the i pri?M of admission. ■ ;j EMPIRE PICTURES. / j Something to please all tastes Was in-H eluded in Saturday night's change ff! ! programme at the Empire Theatre;-'] Among the dramas, pride of place must ' be given to a quaint, homely picture "Me and Bill." The pathetic theme which ran throughout its length must .] have sent manv of the audience into a "brown study." It hinged round the boy and girl love of four children (the •; sexes were evenly divided) and showed : them, years later, married, each couplo with a child of their own. One was a boy and the other a girl. By the time ;• the children had grown up. the two mothers had passed the edge of the ' "Greater Beyond," and the younger generation in turn formed an attachment., The boy went out into the battlefield,' an<l fell fighting. The girl, after pining l for her lover, also met with 1 her death, and in the closing seene—beaiU.ifullv'depicted—two old men (the original mates, comrades of a life-time) were shown reflectively smoking by the chimney-Wife, ".Tust Me and Bill Left." There was also much human pathos in a touching Selig child 'study. "The Little Matchseller,' 'and a Lubin drama, "A Child's Prayer," lost nothing on account of its charming Western setting. "Elephants at work in India" was an excellent film, giving a glimpse of the Herculean feats of these mammoths under the subtle Erection of the Mahouts, looking like mere ants on their backs. The elephants were employed in the timber industry, doing single-handedly what it taken 'in New Zealand a tea mof bullocks or a .traction engine to perform. "A Trip on Lake Constance" disclosed much magnificent Continental scenery, and many topical incidents of important merit were plctorially depicted in the current number of the Gaumont Graphic. The comics were all <rood. especially "The Revenge." In this film the kinematograph sought to stress, in the course of numerous complicating situations, that to ,be able to cook a good meal is a big recommenda-. tion, in the eyes of mere men, in favonr of a marriageable girl. Very humorously it pertinently called to mind the skit: "ITe may live without love.' for what is love but repining; but where is the man who can live without dining!" There will be another change of programme on Wednesday, featuring a Kalem mftsterpiece, "The Seige of St. Petersburg." "LES CLOCTIES DE CORNEVILLE." The box plan for the Inglewoorl A ma- • teur Dramatic and Operatic Society's performance of "Les Cloches do Oorneville, (o take place on Thursday and Friday evenings next, is well filled, betokening huge attendances. Those who have not. already booked seals should do eo at once to save disappointment.