ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1915, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

KOY.AL riOTURBS. Tluj attraction at the It oval l'ictures to nigbt is an iill-lirlthdi picture entitled " The. Jdglits o' London," and the eagerness with which the public rushed to sed it in t)>o cities was a reminder of Tennyson's description of the youth "whose spirit leaped within him to be gone foe*, fore him" when for the first time he saw, "in the heavens the lights of London, c uring like a dreary dawn." The pioture is founded on the melodrama of that name by G. K. Sims, and it wa9 played for the kinenuitograiph under the sonnl direction of Mr. Slims. It is touching story of the love of a squire's son (for the daughter of one of his fa* tVer'o employees, and of the tribulations which followed their marriage, until justice triumphed and brought about <Mr happiness. The of tho vil- >•»«». ClilWd Armytage, is remarkably • eH anted, -anil >xi. too, are all the '.tiicr parts. Then a strong feature irf l! 1" beautiful scenery (if the piece, some i f tho most delightful spots in England I" lug used as a background 'for tlie -'t iy, while the dramatic arrangement ! ri'l the iih"togni'pliy are well nigh per* :<•*. There i» a capital array of sup- , ■cling dims.

I'jJlll'l H K TIIMATHK. I'.i-I c(lit > as an intluem'C on character 'lie theme on which the l-Yeneh plioto- | "i 1i- Son', Aecu-er." produced ,'lt *' e Min.pire Theatre on Saturday night, - 1 ac'ed. and few present did not fail to ■ that it is a potential factor in " |iaili«-ii!ar instau -c. lluhert St. I'll, a. French soldier, is in love with' i';.m'hpie Thiilianl. but the course <rf 1 • H -O lliwarted by a. -trilig of un- :■ r; ninite creditor- that, he goes to the iici.i. Like his father, Hubert's son. 1 out to be a gamble!', and becomes 'icp.lualftl with an actress whose 6T" '■ ■ 1 iuee-. induce him to commit mur- •' obtain money, lluhert. now '""• Ii «■* \ id.dig. tile ih'tcetive. is ?n- - ' ' ■i Li I r.iel: the murderer down, anil ' e-il.li di"'-. -o. i i|ly t,, ihid that the : : man i- hi- own -on. and the 1 '"an he lias murdered is the one !lC l.v lo'. e,l. The drama is very ' '."ii in lorin an.l character, hut the -i"!'v and vivid avting make '. i:.i'l minly iiitere-ting. "Helen Intcri- a pretty -toiy in which an : ■ '' lit lie : :'l hniiL'- h:ip]iim to si 1 u;l ' Llle,:ted -hoy, Jjirl. llf tho ■ : i fonieal iutere-t i, the jiieture '•"•alia - Sin-.' which is really the o! a reiieu i.| the Au-t!alian and ' ■'• ' 'ea'•' nll tjimps nil t]„, sands of >•' oul-.de i'aiv,, by llene-.al Hird--I'l and Ma jor Cein ral Codley. The ■ •'•"i.v .•• i'p- make- a vcrv gallant ' . • lid ;i:,:l rent ly ,1,-erie- all (.lift ' I'iiiL -' that have been said of it. I " ni General Codley i- very ' in evidence at tiie saluting base, 1 1 iu anollicr -e.-tiim ihe llun. T. Mac--1 , High Commissi,,ncr for Xew Zeai',d, mav be seen taking stock of i e.uc ;: , r liritain under war conditions, lie i.mi.al tag (i> the programme is I I b pan's Annual Spree," a Christmas '■ '*" i l the most extravagant deseriplon.