AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1916, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

empire PICTURE palace. To day is to be a day of fun at the Empire' Picture Palace." The new programme which will be shown both afternoon and evening, will feature the gay and debonair Max Linder in one of hi? inimitable comedy roles. Max Linder was one of the first to be called lip to fight for France, and for a long time patrons were deprived of his exhilarating comedy work. Advantage was taken of his being nn furlough'in Paris to act for the Pathe Company in a laughable piece of fooling, "Max was Love Sick," and it is claimed that he was never seen to better advantage in any other piece during his long career before the camera. The spectacular serial, "The Million Dollar Mystery" is wending its exciting way on the diamatic road, and the screening of the 16th episode "Drawn into the Quicksands'' adds one more number to this interesting production. The Black Hand' gang induces Florence to visit Atlantic City, during which they secure her imprisonment. Norton discovers their plan, then follows battle after battle, escape and recapture, ending in Florence falling into a quicksand, firmly inprisoncd and sinking fast, with only Norton's wit, strength and manhood there to save her. It is a thrilling climax. "Pathe's War Gazette" is as interesting as ever and well up-to-ilate. "Views of Volendam, Holland" will be revealed in all the glowing colors of nature, whilst "A Living Flag Display" shows some remarkable scenes on the Auckland Domain. Other good films included are "One Woman's Way" (Flying "A" drama), and "The Silent Tongue," an Edison comedy of pretty wit. THEATRE ROYAL PICTURES, "The King's Outcast" (London Film), the final episode of "The Master Key," and all the other features of the current .programme at the Theatre Royal will be finally presented to-day, first'at matinee in the afternoon and again in the evening at 8 o'clock. This is certainly one of the best selections of photoplays ever seen in New Plymouth. It covers a wide variety of subjects, embracing items suitable for every taste. Another big record-breaking Famous Players feature heads the new programme for Monday night. ROSE OF THE RAXCHO. .. ' The year ISoO was a strenuous one for the land owners of Southern California, especially for those of Spanish birth or extraction. Bands of ruthless outlaws, knowing the lax laws better than the settlers, inaugurated a system of claimjumping and land seizure wherever they found that a careless farmer had omitted to register his hind under the new Act. At length the Government was forced to take "action and sent an agent to investigate. His adventures with the claim-jumpers, and his adventures in love with the beautful Juanita, the daughter of the Spanish ranch-owner, make a stirring vigorous and romantic story which is 'cleverly and artistically told in the Lasky Famous* Players' feature film, "The Rose of the Rancho," to be screened at the Theatre Royal on Monday night for the first time. Written and produced by Dovid .Belasco in liis own inimitable manner, ftrst for the stage and then for the screen, the piece was produced in Southern California in romantic and beautiful surroundings, and acted with a charm and power by a strong company of players, including Miss Bessie Jtarvigcale. The film is in flvn reels. ' ,

BEAUTY COMES FROM WITHIN. Tt matters not how beautiful the features, how perfect the figure, or how lossy or redundant the hair, no woman .111 look really pretty or attractive if , • iipo betrays a disordered digestive apparatus. A yellow sickly face is incompatible with any womanly charm. There are cases known where ladies having suffered in silence for years from sickening liver and stomach complaints, simply because they were unable to withstand the weakening and racking propensities of the ordinary purgative medicines. 11l such cases Laxo-Tonic Pills may be taken with utmost confidence, for they neither unduly purge nor do they weaken. These Pills have been known to bring the roses to a girl's cheeks which had been absent for years. Price, l s and 2s. Obtainable everywhere. KARBOL, the best disinfectant known; used by the British Government.— Sykes, Chemist. SLEEPLESSNESS Sleeplessness frequently arises from the liver. If the liver is out of order it i/Tects the nerves and if your nerves arc iffected you cannot sleep. Do. not resort to narcotics; a course of Chamberlain's 'Tablets will set your liver right and you will soon enjoy refreshing sleep, .fust because other remedies have failed to relieve you is no reason you should give up hope. Chamberlain's Tablets ire relieving obstinate cases every day. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, """ For Coughs and Colds, never fails.