ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1915, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ARMIES OF EUROPE AT WAR. Judging by the crowded and overflowing houses everywhere, the above entertainment has teen given, it is quite evident that the management knows what the public are looking for. Anything dealing with the great war i 9 of particular interest to everyone, and the programme for exhibition at the Theatre Royal on Tuesday and Wednesday next is drawn up with that idea in view. It comprises the only cinema picture of actual battles, and is one of the most comprehensive series of pictures ever shown, and gives every detail, from the men in practice with the new short mlli. tary rifle to the battlefields of France and Belgium, and through a deadly three days' battle in which three photographers were killed tying to secure this valuable record. As photographers are not allowed on the battlefields, this is perhaps the last and only battle-picture we will have the opportunity of seeing. The actual photographer, who risked hi 9 life time and again to secure these pictures, has been engaged at enormous expense to lecture at each entertainment, vividly describing each scene in so realistic a manner that you are shown real war as it reality is, with no attempt to brush over the unpleasant truth. The wonderful work of the Red Cross, and the fine scenes of our Navy, and the working of their big guns, all help to make the programme not only a cinema entertainment, but an entertainment without rival, embodying the finest music most appropriate to the picture, and military songs by leading singers. Intending patrons should reserve their scats at Hoffmann's. ROYAL PICTURES, To-day at 2.30 the management present a powerful two-star bill. The first star is entitled "Silence," a story of a doctor who hid his knowledge of the criminal instincts of a man, only to discover later on that he has made it possible for the man to marry his only child, with appalling results. "The Tattooed Hand" is the other star drama. It is a story of a girl detective who by her cleverness brings a gang of rogues to justice. The supporting programme in. eludes the latest Topical, Keystone comedy, etc. EMPIRE PICTURES. To-day at 2.30 at the Empire will be screened an excellent programme of pictures, a Kalem drama and a Keystone comedy, the former a powerful two-part emotional episode, "The Swindler," in which Miss Alice Joyce plays the character of Mrs. Boylan, a Widow who marries a bogus company promoter, and is fleeced of all her money. The Keystone Company is represented by the latest comedy /'Fatty and Mabel at San Diego," in which the Keystone duo, Mabel Novmand and Fatty Arbuckle, have a holiday at the San Diego Exposition. Other subjects are: "Under False Colors," a comedy drama; "Making a Newspaper" (the Los Angelos Examiner), the whole process from pulp to letterpress; "Scenes in Hamburg Harbor" (scenic), "The Girl who Kept Books" (Edison drama), "Deep Sea Fishing*' (Kalem trick) and the latest war topical. Seats may be reserved at Theatre or Empire Sweet Depot.