AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1916, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

LAST NIGHT OF CHARLIE CHAPUN AT THE "EMPIRE." To-night at the Empire Picture Palace, the famous comedian Charles Chaplin will appear for the last time in his greatest comedy work, "The Property Man." This film is in two reels and is enacted by the full strength of the famous Keystone fun-makers, with the inimitable Charlie in the name part. Tonight will also see the final screening of all the other fine films of the' current series, which includes a three-reel Vitagraph Broadway feature starring Maurice C'ostello. Topical Alms include "Our Troops at Gallipoli," and scenes on other fronts and in London. Commencing tomorrow (Saturday) at the matinee the management will present another Famous Players-Lasky masterplav in fivereels entitled "Tlie Only Son." This is an elaborate picturisation of Winchell Smith's well-known emotional story and it features the handsome aetor Thos. W. Ross in the part that has made him one of the foremost actors in America to-day.

THEATRE ROYAL PICTURES. A big house greeted the new photoplay programme presented by the Theatre Royal management last night. The immense popularity of the Vitagraph Broadway star features was further enhanced by "The Easterbrook Case," a three-reeler featuring Roger Lytton, Julia Swayne Gordon, and Charles Kent. The supporting programme is an excellent one, the drama "The Counterfeit Rose" creating no end of favorable cbmment. This is the eighth instalment of the serial story, "The Trey o' Hearts," now half way tV.rough it's interesting spectacular narrative. The "Pathe Gazette" is another item that is above the average, as also is the Edison story, "The Secret of the Cellar." A trio of very humorous comedies complete .the bill, which will be repeated to-night and again at both performances to-morrow.

"JELFS" AND "ANZAC DAY tN LONDON." Photo-plays which have as their foundation the plot of a famous novel, constitute one of the big developments in the picture world. A ease in point is a six-reel feature drama, "Jelfs," which is dramatised from the popular novel bv H. A. Vachell, and which will be the leading attraction at the Theatre Royal commencing next Monday. "Jelfs" had a wonderful run in England and America. The production is by the London Film Co. "Jelfs" is in a bright style, and is redolent of the open life of the Canadian plains. The liero of the play eomes_ from Canada to conduct an oldestablished bank in London, bequeathed to him by his father. His banking methods are rather unique, and his confreres are surprised at his business and financial arrangements. A charming love romance is interwoven into the drama, and the ending is rather uncoui'entional; Henry Ainley, ' with May Dibley,, Gerald Ames and Charles Rock, play the principal parts in "Jelfs." Another film which will be of intense interest depicts "Anzac Day in London," with the New Zealanders and Australians marching through the dense cheering crowds to Westminster Abbey,, and 11 close-up view of their Majesties, the King and Queen, who attended the great memorial service. This film constitutes a record in rapid transit, and is another example of the up-to-the-minute management of the Taranaki Amusements, Ltd. "Anzac Day in London," was held but six week's ago, and yet on Monday next we can see "our boys" as in real life, although j thousands of miles away.