ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 1, 2 June 1913, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"THE MONK AND THE WOMAN." At the Opera House on Thursday night "The Monk and the Woman" will be staged for the first time here by George Marlow's dramatic company. This play is described as daring in some respects, for it deals with the story of a young" princess who, to evade undesirable attentions at Court, finds refuge in a monastery. Her first entrance, the attitude of the monks to her—they have been taught according to tlie play, to hate women—and the subsequent fall and love-making of the young monk Paul, form the principal incidents of the play. The scenic effects of the piece are said to be of the most elaborate kind. Realism is the keynote of the piece, and the management promises to .place before patrons "The Monk and the Woman" on a scale of great lavishness. I The box plan is now open at Collier's.

THEATRE ROYAL PICTURES The Theatre Royal was again crowded on .Saturday, when the striking dramatic study "The Black Mask" was presented for the last occasion. This picture has made an impression on local picture patrons that will not soon be forgotten. To-night the management will introduce a complete change of programme selected' from the best productions of the front rank producers. Owing to the theatre being engaged on Tuesday night, this selection will only be on view tonight and Wednesday.

EMPIRE PICTURES. The outstanding feature of "The Secret Treaty," the Empire's current "star" drama, is its realism. None of the tricks and artifices of the cinematograph trade are visible in its 3,000 feet of solid merit. The characters really live, and the spectators ,lose their grip of this world, and become a silent witness of one of life's dramas played in another world, where all is foreign, strange, and fascinating. A treaty, which affects the destiny of a nation, has been signed, and a powerful secret organisation devotes all its powers to recover the document. A clever spy is entrusted with the work, and he uses the wife of the Minister of State to encompass his ends. The scene is laid in pleasant places, the glimpses of the characters, riding in the forest being magnificent. In the apartments of tihe Minister lies the safe, whose secrets are protected bv a long row of automatic pistols. Plot after plot fails, then the spy plavs his last cards. Victory in death would seem to be his, when, ignorant of the danger, he opens the safe and receives the bullets of the guns. Grasping the packet, hj& crawls to the headquarters of the Society. The dying smile of triumph changes—he has secured the wrong document. Among the supporting pictures, "Quaint and Curious Canterbury" cannot fail to* please, while "The Topical Budget" is better than ever. "The Hour of Peril" (Rex drama). "Two Gay Dogs" (Selig Comedy), "Gentleman Joe" (Lubin drama), and "Funccus ns Luna Park" (Eclair comic), arc films that also appear in this record programme. Tonight the same bill will bo given. HAMTT/fON-PM MMER DRAM \TIO COMPANY. The new TTamilton-Plimmor Dramatic Company which will open in New Plymouth a two-nighls' season on Julv 17tii, will produce during their stay here Sydney Widnell's new plav "A Woman of Impulse" and "Dr. Wake's Patient" —two plays that have lately been the means of still more popularising in Australia this brilliant combination. The producing and acting generally of "A Womnn of Impulse" and "Dr." Wake's Pntient" have earned for these excellent players the culogism "The most complete ami perfect society drama company since the Brongh-Boueicault davs."