ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 84, 4 September 1914, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

.li.YJillJdtK tfJOl'UttfcS. "'I lie Idxpert's Secret" is n rwnai'kpiWc film, showing tbo ramchinations ot' the directors 01 a great Aaueri<\an <<onmto Trust, ito wrest a. great (secret trotn a young inventor, and every inch of the lilm is full of interest. "The Scientist's Doll" is a TJaamntiaiiser Jilm dl' peculiar and absorbing interest, '«'n•trin;.;' round the invention of a mechanical rt«JI, wiliwlt aii o<l scentiut hoped would ialk, .move and eat. Tie [■Mi- tliciue is manifest throughout. and in 111 is particular film the 'lovers smire their .hearts' detsire by what might be termed spectacular means, and, with money obtained by a strong invpeinonnt ion of Mephistoplieles before the ,il 'ready soured scientist, who- fe lit its impelled to do the right tiling at last by his ward, the young couple lived liaippilv ever after. Then> are several other lilnis ol' exceptional interest ill 1 lie present programme-.

"THE VVR'MOK,."

Few picture 'films llave l»een got up witn such elaborate and realistit effects as has "'l'he Wreck," an Amerksuii' railroad drama, that w to 'to sciwned at the Rmpire to-morrow amt Monday. A head-on collision botww,n an express train and l runaway engine is anions the remarkable features of this lilm. Tilicre is no fake iVbout tho collision. Tihc picture makers weirfc ,'t.o great expense in imrchasiug! t'lw trniiw and laying lines for the sole -pitr-posi inf engineering a big smash for tli< cd'tfU-iUion f.f picture lovens. The story woven round this startling .happening is jwwerfall.T drama!ie and full of human pathos mid appeal.