ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 163, 27 November 1912, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL PICTURES.

The great Northern Company's star picture "Shanghied" will be shown tonight for absolutely the last occasion in New Plymouth. For intense and exciting situations this film easily rivals any of the previous Nordisk releases, and it can safely be said, holds the audience spellbound. To-morrow a complete, change will be introduced, including a magnificent historical portrayal, "The Prisoner of War," or ''Napoleon on the Island of St. Helena." a dignified and pathetic picture of the last days of that powerful Comican who ros,« 'from the multitude to the Throne of France. On to-morrow's programme the management will also include the picture of ''The Central School Carnival" taken last Thursday.

EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE,

'•THE RELTEF OF LUCKNW."

The following is from the London Daily Express of September sth:—"Four "Id men had a cinematograph show specially to themselves in an upstairs room in (ierrard street yesterday. The film was the Edison Company's reconstruction of stirring scenes in the Relief of Lucknow, and these four guests—redcoated pensioners from Chelsea—were in-, vited because on another September day 33 years ago they plaved a part themselves when Tlavelock's dust-choked "samts" broke dim and desperate through the narrow Janes of Lucknow. They sat there in the darkened room, the four grev warriors, whose burnished old medals bore a young queen's head, and on the screen before them the gulf of 53 years was spanned by a thousand feet of film. One «=eene showed the start of the man who volunteered to go through the lines to Haveock. •That's Kavanagh. I saw him just before he started. 'Don't tell my wife,* belays to me. He worked on tlie same post as me, did Kavanagh. No other man could have got through. He was the only civilian who ever got the Victoria ™*; ~ ° Pnd of t,l( ' film brought avelocks Highlanders tumbling through the smoke, their'bonnets on their bayonets, and one of the / 0 „r who had been tlirongh the siege chuckled at the sight of them. Plus picture will be *hown on the new programme at The Empire this evening. '

I "THE OEISITA." | This evening at 5.3.-, the New PlyHn»y a.visit to Stmtfoid. They have chartered a special tram to convey the members and 0 chestra, returning from Stratford at 11.07 p.m A very fine reception, from nil account*, awaits them in Stratford, in .Unday as yon are no doubt aware. this splendid company give their final performance 5 „ N(nv Plvmouth am] syung. riiis. performance will positively be the last, as we underhand the Wa If""" °P™t* Sori'-h- intend buying duced there. Some „f the committeemen paid a special visit to the last performance here and it is understood they it "], ull f,m '" ou Wl *«y "W't- ™- r-7 „ U \7 aro tak ™ with "The seats are going splendidly.