ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 21, 15 June 1914, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EMPIRE PICTURES, If there is one thing wliioh -*PM|)iJ to the average man, it ia to to MbiniJ tho scene's in an art, science, or ind«i«|j| try, the inner workings of Which the most pant a sealed boos. It with a knowledge of the fascination such an introduction to the reajips'afi the unknown, that the Empire Pwtttwj! Company is screening' "How Pictures Are Made" in connection wi®K the new programme wteh appeared raj the Empire Picture ll&lace $n daturdaWfj night. There is probably no more intj#|s§ esting picture tfcta this, for the art-Ma the cin6mat<graph has acquired hold on tlhe popular fancy that eveUjjtf tiling concerning it readily socurw .tentiou. This ton presents an unkjoii;) opportunity for securing an answer many questions .which, .arise in ' ttwi'7 minds of the audiences at a .movie*, picture show. HoWig it possible fprn a comedian to faCl frank the top stojy of a sky-scraper, to effect an eaoapo from under the wheels of a tram, Co fall from an aeroplane, to go tMtongh., firo and water, and, <wiWal, coimv ~3p'i smiling! All these .jnysteriea are W* 1 . plained. The 'wonderful ittuMon "Up its soen in the making, every detail "nl-wKf industry from' the enactment o! ma to the screening of the film is faithfully disclosed. Some conee|)UoK'jti*'the enormous industry which, is':4UMfc& sary to cater for the wauto of 'nflf careless individual! who drops; in lytVjS moving picture shrow witifoirt 6"tihilH|ji|® of (the world-wide organi°j|BDn /wraiffl caters for his enjoymeni! jKli well supported, the eluding "Trapped in a Forost Fire," *jT stirring ,'story of the Adrionack tains, "Within the Enemy's Linu," 1 trnf Edison drama of great merit, and. Many Brides," the diverting histiMT.pl" a complicated lovo affair. ." " $ THEATRE ROYAL PICTURfIfeI 's' "THE THIRD DEGREE." ..{[ To-night We Theatre RovaJ Pidmtf? Company will introduce to the N«w Hiv'-: mouth puolic a big pioture vergton of greatest police drama of modern diineiL/; produced by the pooular Lubih OonhTj pany. Charles Kleini's exposure of ti#yl methods of New York .po 100 to •onfession, in a stage play hastaketf*< the work bv storm and the pictujre' 1 ' presentation hjia met wrtn likef Iho highly-dramatic atorv is excellently , v told. Tibie story begins with & ooOen. sceno givincr an idea of tae cafryfauMm ' of Howard Jeffries, a banker's soniiad,Robert Underwood, two university eta-;' dents, who were at the iheod of an rnly set, and were always in treraHe.- * A telegram reaches Howard from Ida • father, telling him to go to New to make the acquaintance of his step-mother. Robert, who goes ■ him, recognises in Mrs Jeffries an njSgff sweetheart. Back at Oollege Robert tfa»V, dcrwood is expelled for 'bad coni&stt ■ * and Howard Jeffries, who raairis&yKfc. a waitress, is forbidden to the'lßLffi bv his father, Robert obtains,a tntion for minting portrait-', and IhwHHM timacy with Mrs Jeffries in renewwHjfE however, soon -finds out that 1 BSgfi bert's so-called masterpieces are rubbMUj! and writes to liiin, breaking off ttcK&i acquaintance. Robert replies with a ter addressed to Mw Jeffries, wb.;".i threatening suicide. Meanwhile, Jfcffnjw has had a, bad time, nnd Hi' \ wife was worked at home to make, n&otKs p .V- meets some old college friepdvv and after a nishit out visvta Roberta rooms in a intoxicated state. Robert 1 * places him on a eouoih, where he tails-4i asleep, Mr* Jeffries calls, but does not' v: !i see her step?nn. Directly she foavw ? Robert Underwood kills ihimself. How- ' * ard Jeffries is accused of mwder, and } is subjected to the terrible ordeal of ' the third degree. Brutal 1- handled, ha' S was hvpnotfsed by the bead of the di«- -i----tnet police, Captain Clinton, at, wlmw suggestion ihe doeflared himself (juOty,* ' V !' and is nut in prison. Anne is told by her husband the conditions under wiiieh j lie confessed, and after g:rnt difficult' S sueeeeds in inducing Brew-otcr. « great lawyer, to take up the ca-o. Mrs Jeff- ?) riei", sen., is recognised by fb« lift boy, who informs. A meeting -takes T»'*ce at DrewsterV. office, and final! v Howard Jeffries' innocence is proved, snd he reconciled with his father. The other pictures in tlie programme ire: "Ojminfont Gm])hie" (topioal), "How Bobby Call«l Her niuff", (comie.l. "On the Coast of the Black Sea" iKeenic). and "Out in the Kain' (comic), Tfoml miew ; —ls and 6d—will nile for this bwa • * programme, and seats eat- W retervofl at Collier's. All Theatre Bora) PtoUfcl» k '| special stars have mot \vWl> tremenodHLJ success, and "The Third Degree 1 viU<f3ls3 Jure to make another ' Sml