ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 39, 6 July 1914, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE. 1

•—— -t J A programme of more than ordinary i merit drew an overflowing attendance '. at the. Empire. Picture Palace last Saturday evening. The whole of the second half of the evening was devoted to the screening of a picture presenting scenes in the life of tho great N'apoleon. In the main, it was well produced, and it is well [lacked with representations of battle .scenes and of many historic incidents in which the little corporal was the central figure. Many of these scenes were seen and enacted and photographed at tlie places where they actually occurred. Napoleon'* coronation, the battle of Austerlitz, the terrible retreat from Moscow, the French defeat at Waterloo, and many other incidents and episodes in the Emperor's career are graphically presented, and in the final section of the picture, he is shown, an exile at St. Helena, reviewing in daydreams the military triumphs by which he made Franc supreme, for a time, in '. Europe. The supporting pictures are ' a. very fine selection. One lias for iti subject some livci'y water-p'ay in the ; Wellington boat harbor. ''The Medicine i Show at Stone Gulch" is a ripping comedy, dealing with the adventures of j an itinerant quack. Easily the most beautiful picture seen for some time is one of garden flowers, '\Souie Golden ' Flowers," depicted in their native ; line*. The 'Tathe Gazette" is well up to standard in all its features, a particularly intcre.--.ting item being the . arrival at Gravesend in the Uregcni of I the mine strike leaders, who were de•ported from South Africa. " The : Message of the Sundial" is a cleverly conceived playlet, with a ; simple but effective plot. The central idea is that the unhappy story of a pair of lovers belonging to a by- • gone generation provides a moral and ' a warning which induces a pair of I modern lover* to take a wiser course j tihan the earlier pair, who made shipwreck of their happiness. "The Elusive Kiss" is n livo'y comedy by the A.K. Co., dealing withi the misadventures which overtake a .honeymoon couple in their efforts to escape the attentions of :\ circle of chaffing friend's f and acquaintances. The same' pictures | will be screened again to-night. Seats may be reserved at the Empire office at any time between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., | and 0.30 to 7.30. or ring 'phone 305. 1