ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 219, 16 March 1914, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE BAND CARNIVAL. Matters in connection with the forthcoming Band Carnival and election of I ''Queen" are well in hand. Professor | Cardston, who has been specially en- , gaged to carry out the carnival, has had some 200 dancers under tuition for weeks past. The juvenile section is classed a3 one of the best sets the professor has had the privilege to control. All thu dancers are acquitting themEleven stalls, stocked to overflowing, this section of the carnival will be one of the finest yet witnessed in the Dominion. Mrs Browne (the Mayoress), with her energetic ladies' committee, will, when the doors are opened on the 23rd instant, present the finest bazaar display that has ever fallen to the ot of the public of New Plymouth to witness. Oleven stalls, stocked to overflowing, with ten silver-tongued attendants to each stall, shoud send a thrill of gladness through the hearts of every patron of the bazaar. "The Queen of the Carnival" dectiien is already beginning to warm up. Several committees have various projects in hand to raise funds to place i their respective candidates at the head of the poll. We hope the -fight will bo keen and exciting. THE EMPIRE THEATRE. Easily among the very best picture entertainments which have been put on in New Plymouth is the current show at the Empire Theatre. There are ( several stars, but the brightest in the constellation is "In the Bishop's Carriage." It is an exciting drama, enacted in bright American fashion. The film covers the story of a girl's temptation and trial. Nance is a wilful child and is severely beaten at the board-, school. She runs away, and takes refuge in n room which transpires to be the lodge of a pick-pocket. Two years later she is following the pickpocket's trade. At Pennsylvania railway station he steals a bag of jewel- | lery and gives it to her to escape with. She gets away, but the alarm has been raised, and, seeing that she is watched, she calmly walks into a bishop's carriage and thereby allays suspicion. Ske feigns illness, and is taken by the bishop to a house which is none other than that of the robbed man. Circumstances set the police on the trial, but she departs by a window just before they arrive, and this time time takes reivije in an office of a theatre manager. Sl»c'ug the police following as if in search of someone, the manager pretends she is learning a part for the stage. When the police leave she agrees to take work as an actress. Her pickpocket acquaintnee insists on her return to the manager's office to bring away the jewels she left there. Against her will they both go. The pickpocket is captured by the manager, and the police sent for. The manager cleverly shields the girl, but- gives the man into custody. Slie commences her stage career, and soon is tempted to misappropriaee an actress's jewels. Con-science-stricken, she rushes with them to .the manager, crying: "Why do you place temptation in my way?" The manager again sees her through, and from then on she progresses in her professiun. On a night on which she makes a big hit, the released pick-,pocket appears in her room at the theatre, but is followed in by the manager, whose muscular persuasiveness saves the situation. Last seen of the villian is aboard a teamer en route to India; last seen of the manager and Nance is on tlie pier, locked in each other's arms, watching the ship go out. Other capital pictures support the feature item.

ROYAL PICTURES. An exciting anil thoroughly interesting Lubin feature, "Partners in Crime" will he the chief attraction screened with n new collection of films' at the Theatre Royal to-night. The actual partners in crime are two prominent citizens who do not betray the slightest outward evidence of the prominent part they take in the depredations of a dangerous gang of motor-bandits who terrorise the inhabitants of a wealthy suburb in which they operate. The big Lubin feature is accompanied by n choice selection of picture delights.