ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1915, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ROYAt PICTURES. On Saturday's programme of Royal Pictures there is a powerfully pathetic Lubin masterpiece, entitled "The Bond of Womanhood." Here is a drama that shows that there is still much good in the world; that happiness may be hidden, but cannot be lost; that there is a possible smile behind the bitterest tears. Keystone will screen "The Versatile Villain," the most effective laugliter-raisinw faree seen for some time. Edison will b represented by "A Chip of the Old Block" (drama). Thanhouser's comedy, "The Mystic Moustacheles s Magician" is excruciatingly funny. Others are "Out for a Stroll" (comedy), "Welliugton Queen Carnival Procession," the latest number of the Australian Gazeztte, and "Cartoons," by Harry Julius. THE EMPIRE. To-night's new feature is entitled "Two Women," and is a three-part Vitagraph drama, with a very powerful cast. There are really only four characters in the production, but those portraying them are artists who thoroughly understand the art of picture delineation, being Julia Swayne Gordon, Anita Stewart, Harry Northrup, and Earle Williams. Miss Anita Stewart, as "Anita," the child of the woodlands, is at all times charming and ingenuous. Her difficult task is to cheer and comfort a man who has become soured : of the world. With a rooted aversion to woman in the abstract he has flown to the wilds, where he hopes to sink his.sorrows, bury his memories and purge himself of the hateful contamination of the iniquities of the world. It is the little child of nature who at length chases away all the evil shadows and plants in the heart the seeds of love and contentment. .Miss Julia Swayne Gordon, it is said, gives one of her finest portrayals of the erring wife, Cleo Esmond. Some remarkably dramatic situations occur in a casino, and an outstanding feature is the beautiful scenery where the concluding situations are laid. On the same programme are: "Making Shell and Shrapnel" (at Kynoch's works); Gaumont's latest Gazette; a grand scenic, called "From Mountain to Plain"; cartoons by Eaoul Barrc; "The Mm he Might Have' Been" (an emotional drsuna).