ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 292, 2 May 1913, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL PICTURES. An ex(j!ii-ilcly-co' ored picture, cmbodying a fust-mating dramatic romance, ■ entitled, "The Money-lender,'* , was. screened at the Theatre Koyal last evening. A young man indulges in the squandering habit, and borrows huge sums of money to satisfy his needs, in the expectation of receiving a fortuno on the death of lm uncle. As uwiial, a girl in mixed up in the plot, and the prevails upon him to buy her an expensive necklace. The young man's uncle dies, but, to the a&tonUnmcat «E alt concerned, hi* fortune i« bequeathed •t® his grandchild. There is a condition in the will, however, and that is that he < must marry a certain lady within a ( vein 1 , failijig which the estate revert* to the nephew. Here the real pli.t com-mem-M and circles r:iund the unfmtu- ' nate legatee. The latter is away on ft holiday, and the old money-lender takes the opportunity of placing the necklace amongst his personal belongings, his idea, being to have the legatee disinherited, whereby the fortune would fall to til* nephew, as a result of which the <tft» stands of the money-lender and his accomplices would be satisfied. InstrtUjr - * there is a hue and cry over the miafriag ■ necklace, and the heir to the estate tt \ arrested for the theft, ahd sentenced t» - imprisonment. His sweetheart meanwhile pursues the avocation of a niufse i at a hospital, and #hile owupied •her ditties, .» t ;jnan i; «ji.p, one of the accomplices in .the brought in, he having beenhurt in an accident Before his'deuifcjifj he confesses the culprit*-'-J arrested, and the innocent heir to cetate joins his sweetheart, and all is j ! happy ever afterwards. There is m ,] utter absence of any forcing of incident* in this picture, and the whole sequent . of events, exciting, tragic and though they be, possesses that element 4 of rationalism which gives to the stofy la living power, and ig the means wt' 1 ! rivetting the attention of the aUdienee' from start to finish. A splendid nw- •,* porting programme of the latest topical,' dramatic, comic and scenie subjects w-'s also screened. ! ; g There will be no pictures owing to the Theatre Royal being otSftF* J wsie engaged, and to-morrow night *lll', % be the last occasion on which the puUfe will be able to view such a genutoe drama, portrayed with unflinching realism. EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE. . Tho "Massacre" will be showft fjqr the *^ e last time at the Empire Picture Palate to-night. This great film, which has a!» ready made such an impression here, i« '.j by the famous American Bfograph Com* - i "pany. and it is undoubtedly ahead at 1 anything before produced in Westflfß';s subjects. The theme is distinctly intafi , eating, and the settings give an idea:w a Western life as it has never before been k| depicted in motion pictures. 'The stt»» $ aacre", is supported by a splendid variety ' of other subjects, all of which have, brand of "novelty" to recommend then. .Commepcjngon Saturday at the itwtwiftj * ;a^thet'«ie^ : the' prHrclpM tinental 'masterpiece, 2300 feet, entitled 1 "A Daughter of the Slums." • I