ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 288, 28 April 1913, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL PICTURES. A brilliant new programme will be* presented at the Theatre Royal to-night and continued for the two following nights. The special star picture is a. patriotic subject entitled: "With the Colours," being an answer to the question, so often asked of recent times,. Is England Prepared? and this interesting picture (the companion of "Trafalgar and To-day") gives us some idea of the great British Army. The supportingitems are an exceptionally bright selection of the best makers' productions. EMPIRE PICTURES. The star item at the Empire Picture Palace on Saturday night was a semimilitary drama entitled ''The Broken Sword," or an officer's romance. The story deals with the love affair of a young German lieutenant named Von Dorsa and a music artist named Fleurette. Von Dorsa . rescues the artist from a runaway horse, and falls in love. His superior officer finds it out and sentences him to eight days' confinement in his rooms, and makes him promise not to hold any communication with Flcu'irette. The artist, however, unable to account for Jier lover's sudden silence, determines Jo flea vc the town. But she cannot leave 'without finding out the cause of his'silence. She finds her way to him, and his good resolutions vanish at the sight of her. Just as they are together, Von. Dorsa's father and his superior officer, who is a great friend of theplder Von Dorsa, walks into the room for the purpose of making the youngman arbitrator in a game of chess, (n his rage, the elder Von Dorsa breaks his son's sword across his knee and drives him from the house. Some years after, young Von Dorsa, now a music halt artist, visits his native town. After having a quarrel with another artist, he is almost killed by an accident. During his convalescence he becomes reconciled to his mother, his father having died while he was away. Besides these, an excellent programme of the latest film was also screened. A Lubin film, "A Fugitive from Justice," was a film d?aling with a man's ingratitude to a helping couple who saved him from his pursuers. Those people who like the fragant peanut had an opportunity ef seeing the methods by which it is grown Sn a film entitled "The Peanut Industry." The Topical Budget was full of a number of interesting items, Besides these, a number of very good comic lmns were, screened.