PEOPLE'S PICTURE PALACE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 106, 31 October 1914, Page 4

PEOPLE'S PICTURE PALACE.

The latest instalment of "Lucille Love," at present being shown at the People's Picture Palace, is the best of the series yet seen at the theatre and has met with a very large degree of popularity. The scenes are laid on the Chinese coast, and many amazing ad.ventures are depicted. The supplementary films include an S. and A. drama, "In Real Life," and the Eclair Journal, giving glimpses of war scenes and interesting events the world over. SHOBTT'S THEATRE. At Shortfc's Theatre the seventh "chapter" of the absorbing "Lucille Love ' production is being thrown on the screen for the last time this evening", and those who have not seen the picture should not miss the final opportunity of doing so. A well-conceived drama by the A.B. Company, entitled " The World and the Woman," is also one of , tho favourites. An entirely new series will be presented on Monday, headed by an Aquila masterpiece, " A Prisoner of the Owls' Gang." "THE GREAT PYTHON ROBBERY/ At the Empress Theatre continuous pictures, on Monday next, will be introduced a three-reel sensational detective drama entitled "The Great Python Robbery." At the outset Brown and Judels, two notorious jewellery robbers, conspire to steal the diamonds of Madame Pillard, who is about to appear in an important operatic engagement in London. The criminals have a strange acsomplice in a tame python of considerable size. Packing the serpent in a . leather-covered cage, they proceed to the hotel where the opera singer has her compartments, and they secure a room directly over her suite. On Madame Pillard's return from the theatre the criminals lower the python through their window into her room. Both the singer and her maid faint through fright when they see the serpent. The thieves then enter the room and escape with the jewels. When Madame Pillard recovers she gives the alarm, and Detective Finn is summoned. He follows a clue, and arrives at the house of the thieves. Disguised as a plumber, Finn gains admittance to the house, but Brown and Judels discover his disguise, and suddenly overpower him. Judels departs in a motor-car for Folkestone, to catch the boat to Boulogne, where he is to. be joined by Brown. Billy, a newspaper boy, who saw his friend Finn enter the house in disguise) goes to the detective's rescue. Brown is captured and Finn goes in pursuit of Judels in an airship. The detective drops from the airship on to a fast-moving express train, catches up on the fugitive, and ultimately rei covers the jewels. Special supporting

films will be screened. To-night the orchestra's selections will include "The Bohemians " and " Casino Tanze."