ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 314, 14 June 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE EMPIRE THEATRE. Adventures with leopards, ferocious lions, and otlier~wild beasts of the African jungle are portrayed in the Selig photo-play, "In Tune with the Wild/"' which is tlie feature of the current picture programme at the Empire Theatre. The Initial screen lust Saturday night was witnessed by a fufl house, and the film was watched with great interest. It is a woll-connceted story as told by kinematograph, and the scenery is quite beyond that on which the common run of" picture drama is built. The central figure in the plot is Robert Wayne, an English missionary in Central Africa. On receiving advice that he has been left a legacy of £50,000, Wayne sets out for the coast, accompanied by his wne and infant daughter. On the way he is ambushed by hostile natives, and severely wounded in the head. His wife and child escape to the coast, and proceed to England, but Wayne, whose injury has affected his brain, wanders , without reason or fear into the forest, and lives with the wild beasts for scvenI teen years. Then, photographs of the ! "wild creatures of the jungle" are ev I hibited in England; a party is formed I to rescue him, and eventually he is re- | stored to sanity and civilisation. Latest war news is chronicled in the GsuiI meat War Graphic. Othi»; items are 1 "The New Stenographer," an entirely ] new production by the Vitagraph Company, featuring Flora Finch and Lilian Waiker in a farce-burlesque of irresistible humor; "When Kings Were Law," ; | an A.B. drama; "Suspended Ceremony."; a Beauty comedy; "Through Baandeberry," a delightful scenic. Music is supplied by Mrs. George. Thursday next the management prosent the first instalment of "The Adventures of Kathlyn." This film is about 40,000 ft. in length, and will take thirteen weeks to screen. Every Thursday and Friday an instalment of about 3000 feet will be shown, each instalment bein" a story complete in itself. The first instalment of "The Adventures of Kath- , lyn" is entitled "The Unwelcome , Throne." Plan of reserved seats is now i open at the theatre.

HUMAttITS MYSTERIES. jj Speaking of Hugard, the wonderful i conjuror and illusionist, who, with his i company, opens at the Theatre Royal on j Wednesday, June 18, Mr. Edwin Geach, J the well-known theatre entreprcneucr, 3 who has handled the greatest performers ? in this line, from Carl Hertz on, in aj contemporary, says: "Comparatively speaking, a young man. it is nevertheless 23 years since he delighted his first audience as a conjuror. After all these years of unremitting patience and practice, now that he has mastered every sleight of hand trick, and invented many wonderful methods of his own, ho still •regards himself as a student, and spares no effort to obtain that ultimate goal upon which he has set his heart. To the average conjuring performer Hugard's handiwork is a revelation. Commencing with a few siinple*yct unexplainable sle'njhts, he actively proceeds i from feat to feat until he practically fascinates the audience with his brilliance. He lias been well termed "the man with the wonderful hands," and, as he says, there are feats which bis facile bands perform that be cannot see the movement of himself. Ifis great rifle act is spoken of by the press as being one of the finest and most astounding feats yet performed in the ! magical world. Hugard is supported by a strong company of Continental artists, including Miss Myra Erringtoh (soprano and instrumentalist), Madam Carroll, Clivalli and his dog Sport (jugglers and balancers). Miss Millie Clare (com- ■ medienne), and Ching Sung Loo, the i mysterious Chinaman. Prices are 3s, •?.», I and Is. Plans open at Hoffmann's this morning.