PICTURE FILMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1916, Page 4

PICTURE FILMS.

IMPORTANT EXCLUSIVE PITU ■ CHASES. Local picture-lovers will lie intcrestefl to learn that the management of the Taranaki Amusements, Ltd., has secured the output of feature films from the World Film Corporation, Mutual Films (now controlling Chaplin comedies) and the wonderful Triangle photo-playa. The World (lima and Chaplin comedies are already known locally, and pic-ture-lovers will be delighted to know that thes« films will he included in the programme at the recognised picture theatres of Now Plymouth. The Triangle photo-plays are at present unknown locally, except by the immense sensation they are (-renting it the Lyceum Theatre in Sydney, which hat been wholly given over to the m-reeninj; • of these super!) productions. For the information of its patrons, Taranaki Amusements, Ltd., (five the following fact} about, and explanation of, the Triangle programme, its producers and its artists. The Triangle represents the latest development of the film industry, mid i-t the result of the combined genius of those three producers of motion pictures . whose work is known in every part of the world-,D. W. OriUifli, Mack Sennet and- Thomas H. Ince. (Jriflith is the practical idealist who in the past ha* bien responsible for "The Kscape," "The Outcast" and "The Avenging Conscience.'' Ince is the film realist, w:iio combines big panoramic spectacles with a tenso drama in n manner which has won him a host of admirers and a host of imitators Sennett is the best known a* the originator of the Keystone comedies. The whole of the organisations tiiev control—hundreds of actors, tliotw-niiN o[ pounds' worth of studio property, and unequalled talent in three lm*,' "„ ( : en. denvor—have been merged into the Triangle, which has given them a million pounds to spend in 'motion pieunvs. The idea of the Triangle programme Is to vary the entertainment with both comedy and drama in one evening, and because, of the vast resources of the producers no two dramas and no two comedies will ever he ilike. The constant variations nt the players, storied and methods of production have raised the Triangle programme to the apex of artistic entertainment, and that stan- , dard will always be maintained. Butmost important of all—Triangle plays are clean. There is nothing in them'to which any exception can possibly be taken. They are films which women and children can see without fear of offence, for clean, artistic motion pictures are the aim and achievement of the Triangle. Many popular stage and screen stars will appear in those dime in roles to which they are best suited. Among these may be mentioned such celebrities in drama and comedy as Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Miss Billie Burke, Mary Anderson de Navarro, de • Wolf Hopper, Julia Dean, Marie Doro, Weber and Fields, Sam Barnard and William Collier. Big sums have been paid to obtain their services, and expense has been fully justified by Tf suit*.