ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 256, 19 March 1913, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL. { '.When it is mentioned that last change of programme at the Theatre lioyal included no fewer than four pictures 4>v the popular Yitagraph Company. one can well gauge its worth. One of the quartettes was a problematic drama ''Written in the Sand" and it proved to be a masterpiece of fine dramatic study. "The Road of Yesterday" introduced a wave of pleasing sentiment, throwing many of the audience into brown studies. ■ Its theme -was- of a Iruly delightful order and.its acting >vas the best that the Hiograph provides. The Jetting of this film "was"'one "o*f its main features, being on- a superb scale. Indeed, one' would have to go a Iftrig way to find a more acceptable picture. Great interest was manifested in a magnificent industrial subject. "Paper Manufacture in Maine." It depicted 'tlie industry in till its humorous departments, showing work in the primeval forests,- the logs'in' their eighty-mile passage down the river to . the mills, and, ,tlu>. .full, interesting process of converting them into paper. John P<unny and Florence Turner figured to advantage in a Yitagraph farce, "The '£wo Cinders." while a highly-diverting novelty, in which tli,e chief directors of the Yitagraplr Company 1 all appeared,' ivas shown in the shape of "A Yitagraph Romance." OUiLt g6'od : "films "were also shown. Thev comprised- The Pathe London Gazette, "Winter Sports- in Bodelle,"

'"The Schiovans Troupe" (a colored vaudeville subject), and. '"The.. Ov«;n-eyed Monster," featurjng ,jlftK.Ujider.' ,4- sp.ee-. ail attraction;is. promised for it.o.-inurxow in the shape (if ''TJ.Ii; iljlis qf.tiieJJods,". which is described' a? tin;, greatest. Yita-, graph 3001.) fee.t masterpiece .yet..,screened. ... , ■ ,■ , ' ~,. ...