AMUSEMENTS.
" " EMPIRE PICTURES. Large attendances were recorded at the Empire Picture Theatre on Saturday, when a new programme was screened. The leading picture is entitled "The False Friend," and forms the second episode of tlie serial story, "The Mililon Dollar Mystery." The story concerns the mysterious loss of a large sum, and the sudden disappearance of a man who is interested in the missing money. The plot is admirably conceived and has plenty of grip. It abounds 'with thrilling incidents, in which motor-cars, aeroplanes aricT I>rtVloons play a prominent part. Luxuriously staged and perfectly acted, this remarkable production has aroused the interest pnd admiration of all who have witnessed it. "Those College Girls" is one of the best Keystone comedy films released to date, and is a real "rib-tickler." The pranks a bevy of pretty girls get up to in a boardingschool prove quite irresistible, and a hearty laugh is assured with good clean humor. An interost/ng film depicting the operations of a modern submarine, under the heading of the "Royal Danish Navy," introduces quite a new feature in the eduoational series, while the Pathe Gazette is an exceptionally good, number this week. There will be a re-' petition of this programme to-night. THE CONSPIRACY. A FAMOUS PLAYERS TRIUMPH. An especially good dramatic picture, by the well-known Famous Players Co., will be the star attraction at the Theatre Royal to-night. An idea of the interesting nature of the story will be gained by the following brief outline: Winthrop Clavoringls literary triumphs are embittered by the scoffing of certain rival writers. "So when a murder is committed by an unknown person, Covering throws himself eagerly into a solution of the mystery, and begins a new story which is to deal with the present case in hand. The murder was that of a Spaniard, Pedo Alvarez, in his rooms at the Beaumont Hotel. Just before dying the victim had the strength to gasp over the telephone that his murderer was a woman. Clavering, needing the assistance of a stenographer, visits the City Refuge for Homeless Girls. He engages a young girl, whom a young reporter recognises as a girl lie bad rescued from a band of crooks, and before she leaves with Clavering gets her confidence and her story. She was at one time the captive of a band of white slavers known as the Scarlet Band, and had escaped from the place during a ire. Ever since this experience the girl and her brother had hounded the Scarlet Band, in whose existence Clavering was the only believer. The young reporter promises to help Margaret, who had killed the Spaniard to save her brother. She goes with Clavering, and to her horror, discovers it is the story of the murder she herself committed that she is to work on. Wavering's astute discovery of this fact, how he captures the famous Scarlet Band, and helps along the romance of his young stenographer and the cub reporter, is amusingly and excitingly told in one of the most stirring of film dramas, The prices of admission are as usual, with the exception that for this evening children with their guardians will be admitted to itho dregs circle at half-price.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1916, Page 8
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