ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 283, 2 May 1914, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL PICTURES. Tie present programme at the Theatre Royal is attracting much attention and the audience last night was very delighted with the entertainment presented. The Pathe 3000 ft. star continues a favorite and should draw an excellent house to-night, last occasion of showing this marvellous picture. The programme is strongly suppprted by films of great variety, including a Vitagraph drama, "The Other Woman." "Rice Cultivation in China" is 500 feet of most instructive value, "Zcpherin's Duel," a screaming comedy, and "Her face was her Foitune," a picture that nearly requires the Theatre to have clastic walls. A matinee will be .given this afternoon at 2.30. Children admitted to all parts for 3d.

HOW TO DANCE THE TANGO. The Theatre Royal holds a surprise for picture patrons in the' next programme, when they present the great and only "Tango" picture, which has drawn crowd'ed houses wherever shown. It marks a new departure in the art of kinJniuU.<,raphy, as it is the first attempt made io g.ve finished productions of up-to-date dancing and ut the same time to imparl dancing lessons .from the screen. The big pictoral claims to practically teach several dances, but it deals principally with the now notorious "Argentine Tango" which lias raised so much diacuasiju. Masterly exhibitions ef this !-»t'=~t society fad are given, by Mr. \V.j. '■ '■•> .MtCutcheon and Miss Joan Sawyer, who are credited with being instructors to New York's famous "four hundred." The film shows the New York Theatre lli/uf Garden with its dancing academv in full swing. Wnjlace McCuteheon' and Miss Sawyer are seen starting their ambitious pupils at the first step of the Argentine Tango and gradually ins:-act-■n& th«m in and leading them through the intricacies of the dance, after whist the same pupils, having mastered the ait, are shown as the finished article. Aladame Gene", according to a recent caDlu, eulogises the "Tango Argentine" n s the most charming of all ball-room dances, and the management states that the present pictorial presentment of it would appear to be causing a good den! of in terest in Auckland, as many of the samo faces are to be seen watching the steps night after night. "How to Dance the Tango" will be accompanied by Mr, McOntclieon's original music.

EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE. .At the matine? to-day a complete change of programme will be screened, featuring a two-part story of'a Chinaman's feindMi plot, '•The Chinese Death .thorn, a Kalem melo-dramatic masterpiece. The storv is as follows:—Martin Avery, opium fiend, saves Mildred, a wanker's daughter, from the! Chinese crime syndicate, and is assigned by the eader to a midnight burglary. Ho'bare»y escapes capture. He turn* in the proceeds, and rolls into a bunk in the eader s, (Moi Ling's) opium den. Th« banker and his daughter enter the den on a slumming tour. Moi Lfng-entraps Mildred into one of his rooms. Avery goes to the rescue, and the hanker in return gives him a position. Hearingfof Ms former tool's rise, Moi Ling plots to get lnm in hi, power. The result is that Avery becomes his prison-r The same night the syndicate raid tile bank, and overpower Avery's brother, a nijrhtmlcbmn, blowup the vault, and emptv ruiow, u, c brother learns of Averv's whereabouts (the Chinese den) a„Tar mng CS wth the police to raid thepC ml A'• V- aP[)oal ' W, ' tllin « «rfcli» and threatens him with a Chinese death «><"'.,, the slightest scratch „f which, means instant d*nih. T),c police to t'w tJioin. Supporting fii ms arp « The "* r »y. or tho Came il'icf, Plants and Flowers." while the uT'Th?P 7 h Une Qu rrel'' and The Gusher." a Kevstone, etc The wip, Ch. Dubois' arrangements.