THE EMPRESS THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1914, Page 4

THE EMPRESS THEATRE.

This evening a last opportunity will be available of witnessing the Film DArt Napoleonic drama, " Josephine," and the current supplementary programme of the Empress Theatre continuous pictures. The leading, production gives a striking portrayal of themore important episodes in the life of Josephine, commencing with the circumstances leading up to her first interview with B6naparte. The fascinating widow of the late General Beauharnais waits upon Napoleon to ask him to permit her son to retain his father's sword, which the civic authorities have^seized. Falling under the spell of 'her beauty Napoleon grants her simple request, and subsequently calls upon ' Josephine to declare his love to her. The widow accepts his offer of marriage, which is solemnly celebrated with much pomp and splendour. < After a while Josephine's fickle and frivolous disposition annoys Napoleon, ' who is also -greatly disappointed at not having an heir. He asks her to 'agree to a diyorce, and . Josephine tearfuly acquiesces. The final scene' depicts Josephine in loneliness at Malm'aison, where she collapses " on learning of ' the . Emperor's first serious defeat. An entirely new programme will be introduced on Monday, headed by a special ■ " feature." The series will include vivid pictures of the disastrous Ohio "floods."

THE BRITANNIA. Monday's new programme includes for a feature film a two-part A. K. drama, entitled "The Trapper's Mistake." This photo-play is founded on fact, and unfolds a story of the turbulent lives of one man and one woman surrounded by false friends and open enemies. It has for a background one of the most picturesque regions in the •world, Canada. The pictures give a brilliant delineation of Canadian life, manners, and sentiment, at a period that was one of the most important in the development of that country. The supporting pictures are '.'Bully's Doom" and "The Whirlwind Kids" (comics), "Nurse and the Counterfeiters" (drama), "Lake Lucerne" (scenic), "Topical Gazette," and a Keystone comedy, "Her Friend the Bandit." SHORTT'S PICTURES. At 8 o'clock /last night it was almost impossible to obtain a seat at Shortt's Continuous Picture Theatre, Willisstreet. The current programme is a particularly good one, and features "Sydney by Day and by Night," tmowing splendid views of the great Australian metropolis. This series will be shown for the last time to-night, together with "Zuma, the Gipsy" (a Cines star) and other films. The principal pictures in Monday's new programme will be "The Dream Woman" (adapted from the wellknown novel of that name by Wilkie Collins), and the fourth series of "Lucille Love."