ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 215, 19 February 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

ROYAT. PICTURE?. "WifTlos Puts up for Parliament" is (he title of a comedy to bo shown at the Rnval to-morrow. It is plpction timo, and WifTlpr.'mother-in-law-promises him a (rood round sum if hp pan win a spat. TTp surmounts many difficulties. font on polling day lip receives one vote! lie manages to conceal the figures from ma-in-law long enough to get the cash. Li fig for Parliament! A fine drama is "The Long Lane," by the Lubin Comi' pan v. John Black and Ray Meers are ) both in love with Ruth, daughter of old I Henry Grier. Ruth favors -John, but the old man objeets. The two suitors have a fight and Ray throws John over a cliff and hp is supposed to bp killed. He is, however, nursed back' to life by somp, settlers in the valley. Old (Trier on his deathbed makes Ruth • promise to marry Ray, and John, having recovered. arrives back at the mountain homestejul just after the wedding. He does not enlighten the girl but warns Ray that- unless he makes a good husband lip will have him, John, to reckon with, John leaves the country and after seven years returns to find Ray a drunkard, and Ruth and her little girl"driven from home. John takes them to his cabin and hears the pitiful story, then goes in search of the cruel husband. The two men meet at the edge of the cliff where years before •lohn had b;en thrown over. Drought face to face with the man be had tried to kill. Ray becomes terrified and in his fright draws backward until his foot slips on the edge and he is dashed to death. Satisfying himself that. Ray is dpad. John goes back to Ruth. He comforts her and tells her sadlv that she will never have to return to' Ray. EMPIRE PICTURES. The new programme submitted last night for the first timp was in every wav a very good collection. Undoubtedly the feature was "Codes of Honor" with Ormi Hawlev In the lpading role. .Marie liowditeh, a shoplifter, is taken in a raid in which her husband is killed. .Marie's baby is taken to a foundling home and later adopted bv the Mortons, while Marie is sentenced to live rears' imprisonment. Marie leaves the institution a reformed and devout woman. She seeks out the Mortons anil begs for thp return of her little son Robert. Morton gives back the boy, and Marie makes a fresh home in the West. Tlcre she marries Ranker Harrison, a widower, who also has a little son, mimed .lames. Fifteen years pass. Robert becomes the cashier of his step-father's bank, and -Tames district attorney, lioth are suitors for Mildred, the proud and beautiful daughter of Judge Early. Mildred gives her heart to Robert. Kidd Hogg, a pal of Marie's criminal days, turns up, ar.il demands as. the price of silence two thousand dollars. A like sum belonging to Judge Earlv is given Harrison to keep over night. Marie is tempted to steal tlie two thousand dollars, but ri'cs above the temptation. That night, the Kidd enters and steals the money. Robert, returning late, is. seen in the room by James. Til,, next morning when Judge Early and Mildred arrive, James aceilsi s Robert, declaring lie had seen him there at three o'clock in the morn'ng. Robert, believing his mother to be thp culprit, refuses to deny tin- {heft | IT,, is taken ofT. Kidd Hogg gets drunl ! and is fatally shot in a quarrel, lb asks for the district attorney and every

i;liir,£ is ch'jv.vd up. "An JiilVrna! Tan-ic," ;i!id "Down f.0r.0 AVuy," are two cv.'cllcni. drama-. "TiiiM Slio:-" is a comply )>v Ka)r;»: dnhn J.iiiujv h wcl] to the front in ''Tunny's Swell Affair," u comedy; Lena Contortionist"' is an interesting vaudeville turn: "Austral'im Ca/.cfti-" as inhml rontons all the latest ih-avs. A si»:m*ki 1 war topical "Kinir fJj'or.L'J l at the Front." i-to-nijrlit only.