AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1916, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

"THE UNWELCOME MRS. HATCH." LAST SCREENING TO-NIGHT. Tre striking Famous iPlayers' emotional drama, "The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch," will be shown for the last time at the Theatre Royal to-night. This photoplay has proved immensely popular with picture patrons on the past two evenings, and should again draw a good audience to the Royal Pictures this evening. To-morow night a complete change of programme will be introduced, featuring a huge Keystone burlesque, entitled "Fatty's Tintype Tangle," said to be one of the funniest comedy films introduced to Dominion audiences. In addition to the usual change of programme the spectacular Trans-Atlantic serial picture, "The. Master Key," will commence its run at the Theatre Royal to-morrow night.

"THE MASTER KEY" COMMENCES TO-MORROW NIGHT.

The striking serial picture, "The Master Key," will commence at the Theatre Royal to-morrow night. "The Master Key" has proved to be one of the most delightfully interesting pictures ever submitted to picture patrons throughout Australasia, and whilst full of mystery and strange happenings it is also fuli of "red blood" deeds of courage and strange( adventures. The principle male characters are men of fine physique, and many times during the progress of the story they meet and engage in reckless and desperate From the first episode the onlooker is launched right into the interest of the story, which never relaxes its thrilling intensity right through to the finishing episode. "The Master Key" will be a special added attraction to the usual Thursday programme.

THE EMPIRE THEATRE. Readers of ' The Sea Wolf" have marvelled at the author's success in relating such a delightful love story amid the records of mad brutality, but there are parallel cases in history, so that the fiction is not beyoud reason. To put the story forward in picture form would at the outset appear to be an exceedingly difficult taik, but it was attempted by the Hobart Bosworth Company, and when the picture has been seen it ,will bio generally acknowledged that the difficulty was overcome. This i 9 not to be wondered at when it is known that enormous expense was incurred in the production and that nothing was left undone that might contribute to its' success. The picture is indeed a combination of able acting, splendid staging and perfect photography, and patrons of the Empire Theatre were unanimous in their approval of the first local screening last night. The leading role was played by Hobart Bosworth himself, and his work in tTie Him is, to say the least of it, quite high-class. "The Sea Wolf" is the captain of the Ghost, a sailing vessel, which sets out on a seal-hunting trip to Japan. While leaving San Francisco harbor she 'picks up a drowning survivor from a ferry boat, sunk in a collision during a fog. iHe is a literary critic, and by a ftrange set of circumstances is thrown into the company of a young poetess, who is picked up with other survivors later in the voyage. Cutting adrift in a small boat, they are east up on au island, Hid destiny brings the partially-wrecked sailing vessel to the same shores. By this time the cruel captain lias bean de.erted by his crew, and has also been ; itricken blind. Even now he continues ■ ;o practke fiendish tricks, and it is with lie greatest difficulty that the stranded lair St out the vessel to carry tliem igck to home and happiness. The film a in four parte, and occupies the whole qt the eveninsfc mgrum.