AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1916, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

EMPIEE PICTURE PALAcE. A new programme of photoplays wil' be presented to-day at tlie Empire Picture Palace, at both afternoon and evening performances. The star attraction is tlie lOtli episode in that striking serial drama "The Million Dollar Mystery." Last week's instalment left Florence at a littie flsliin.-? village, deprived of her reason. Carrying on the story from here, the present series, ! under the title of "Shanghaied" keeps | the onlookers in tense excitement. Tho conspirators believe Florence drowned. Their next move is to dispose of Norton. Lacking his usual keenness, through misery, he is cunningly lured to an old tenement, is hammered into insensibility, robbed, bound and beaten. He awakes far out at sea on an old tramp freighter—shanghaied! Florence daringly rescues a man drowning in the surf. He proves to he one of the conspirators. Discovered. Braine acts himself. He recaptures her, carries her on board a palatial yacht. Fire at sea! "To the boats!" ' The yacht's survivors rescued by the tramp freighter. Fate brings Florence and Norton together, and love fearlessly plans a miraculous escape from their enemies. Supporting subjects include "An Hour of Freedom" (a Luhin drama, featuring Lottie Briscoe, Arthur Johnson, and Harry Myers), "Pathe's War Gazette," "Professor's Painless Cure" (comedy), "Picturesque China" (scenic). "Napoleon Chimpanzee" (the world's greatest animal performer), and a rollicking Billy Reeves comedy, entitled, "Almost "a Prize Fighter." ELINOR GLYN'S "THREE WEEKS." The Taranaki Amusements, Ltd., have secured, for screening in New Plymouth shortly, the much-talked of photoplay of Elinor Glyn's "Three Weeks." The picture, which is over 0000 ft in length, has just recently completed a season of S2 consecutive screenings at Auckland, which constitutes a record run for the Dominion. The previous record held by "Quo VadisV" covered 23 exhibitions in Christchurch. The film is a most artistic reproduction of this electric love story, which rather startled England when it first saw the light. The work was prohibited for a while by order of an English Court, but this decision was reversed on appeal, after lengthy litigation. It lias held the screen for re-eral weeks at Sydney, and is still playing to immense attendances. The picture version, of course has been passed by the censor as free from any suggestion of offensiveness.