AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1916, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE. A new and varied programme of the latest photoplays will be presented tonight at the Empire Picture Palace. The star feature is a two-reel Kalem social drama entitled "The Prison Stain," being the study of a woman's reformation. It is a strong and forceful story based on the old fallncy "once a crook, always a crook." The scenes are stirring and vivid and the character delineation of the woman' life as she fights her way from prison cell to be a leader of modern society are ably depicted and a story of engrossing interest. Other films include "Across Southern India" (scenic), "From Trench to Trench," (ivar topical) "Patlie's Australian Gazette" (topical), "Tom, the Tamer" (Edison cartoon-comedy series), "The Mighty Hold" (Flying "A" dramatic story of a woman's betrayal). "The Substitute Fireman" (Kalem railroad romance), and "Love, Pepper and Sweets" (a "Pokes and Jabs" comedy). Special appropriate musical selections will be rendered throughout the evening by \the Empire Symphony Orchestral*

LAST XIGHT OF "JELFS. "Jelfs," which will be shown for the last time to-night at the Theatre Royal i.; a play that has commanded mucn attention throughout England and America. Written by\H. A. Vaohell. "Jclfs" was one of the best sellers of the season, and its popularity was so great that the f.ondon Film Co. arranged to produce it as a photoplay. The story is one that will delight everybody, and with such actors as Henry Ainlev, Gerald Aimes, Mary Dibley and Charles Roik in the leads, it leaves little to be desired. Imagine a big, red-blo<sdeA Canadian rancher, hero of many a hard fought border scrap, leader in the wild pranks cowboys love to play on each other, a laughing rollicking son of the outdoors, being called home to London to take charge of the private bank of Jelfs, for si.v generations a rock in British finance. Imagine the consternation with which he. is received by proper old Adam Winslow, the trusted chief acountant. whom his uncle's death lias left temporarily in charge of the bank. Imagine the disapproval of Sir Jonathan Dunne, president of the Bankers' Association, when Dick rolls into the bank's office,, attired in the best frontier get-up, .and breezily remarking: "This is some bank," airily offers the dignified president and old accountant a big cigar each, and confidently predicts, "Yes, she is 9ome bank, but T reckon I can run her." Imagine the sinister delight with which the young novice is received by the sharks of Hie financial world. Here is a victim to be plucked, they think, and begin to plot his downfall. Imagine the designing mammas. What a catch for they daughters! A handsome boy with thirty thousand a year income, and all ignorant of the guile of the ways of London mothers of marriageable daughters. Imagine his total ignorance of social usage. His etiquette lias consisted of "doing as you would be done by"— favors to his friends and blows to his enemies. He knows no other, and so puts this code into operation in casteridden London. He causes a sensation in a fashionable restaurant by administer a muscular rebuke to a snobbish head waiter, and then, to show there are no hard feelings, hands his crestfallen victim a golden sovereign for a tip. There is pathos, and humor too, in his vigorous love and courtship of aristocratic Lady Femella. "He is so crude," she tells her mother. "A man with thirty thousand a year can afford to be crude, my dear," responds that astute lady.