ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 296, 18 May 1914, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL PICTURES. An at/.raelive and new selection of motion pic lures Will open at the iheatie Royal to-night,, headed! by a great Vitagraph star drama, 2UUOK, entitled "The Myrf.ery of the Silver Skull," a striking story in two parts, which may lie tie- j pended upon to thoroughly entertain all those who pay the theatre a visit tonight. The liarrativ;.' is full of tine situations, but it would take too much space to give them in. detail. The remainder of this great programme includes a "Gaumont Graphic," u colored comedy, "The Witching l llour," charming scenic, 'Na'rional i'ark of Lapland.," another line drama, "The Colonel's adopted Daughter," a Gaumont educational, "A Blast Furnace," and an uproarious . ltXlOft Keystone comedy "Mabel's Stormy Love Affairs," and an additional laughtcr-provoker in "Uncle's Namesakes." The collection should please the must fastidious, abounding us it does in variety and instruction. Popular prices rule, Is and lid,- and seats can he reserved at Collier's. EMPIRE PICTURES. The s J .;iv offering at the Empire Picture Palace, 011 Saturday night exemjplilicd one of the moving picturs filrn'e most powerful attractions, the presentment of the works of a great author iu dramatised form in all the natural and renlis'.ic setting which the limitations of stage scenery debar. "Silver Blaise," which is the title of the picture, is well knmrii to all readers of Sir A. OonMl Doyle's books as one of the ntyst exciting adventures in which the. great deteciive created by that versatile author has ever taken part. Sherlock Holmes has become a household word since Conan Doyle created him, and in his appearance on the moving picture "creen has lost none (if hi 3 charm to admirers of virile detective stories. "Silver Blaze" is a brisk story of the i.urf, dealing with the hocufsshig of a famous racehorse, and the detection of the miscreants hv Holmes' finnans asiethods. It is a picture well worth seeing, from every point of view. The film is exceptionally well supported bv eomedies, secnics, and dramas, the thief attraction in a host of froml items being "Rallies,'' n Keystone aoniedy, which is well up to that linn's reputation fo r pure and unadulterated mSrth.