AMUSEMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 15516, 11 June 1914, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

PRINCESS THEATRE.'Large attendances go to indicate that this week’s programme of vaudeville at the Princess has lilt the popular taste. Josephine Classman and her piccaninnies is undoubtedly a star turn, while there are many others of distinct merit. HAYWARDS’ PICTURES. At the Octagon Picture Palace a specially attractive programme is being shown, the chief features of which arc the photoplay ‘ The Threads of Destiny ’ and the film depicting the big camp of New Zealand Territorials. ‘CAPRICE.’

• For Monday evening the management announce an event of more than usual importance in the first presentation of • Caprice,’ a filmic reproduction in 4,Co3ft of photography of a play which achieved ren arkablc success in the legitimate American theatres, and which the_ New Yoik ‘World’ affirms is belter still as shown in the pictures, with the world’s leading film actress, Marv Pickford, in the leading part, supported by the famous Players’ Company of New York. Young mi I’ickford's widely acknowledged genius, magnetic personality, sweet nature, and electrical vitality have placed her right in the. front rank"of film players. ‘Caprice’ is described as a heart-play, which goes to prove that love levels all ranks. It tells of the story of a rough diamond, a mountain maid, and chows her transformation into a gilded society woman. It is cited as “a drama of sunshine and shade, smiles and tears, lull of lights and shadows as an April day, which possesses wonderful heart appeal, and boasts that one touch of Nature which makes the whole world kin.” The whole of the second part will be devoted to its screening and the management state that it will be supported by a picked programme of finer genda. strength than any other hitherto submitted. The auxiliary films ; , r{ . Thirteen Miles’ Flight Over the Seine in a Hydroplane’ (Rathe color), •Pf<|ro, the Dog Charmer ’ (Star vaudeville), ‘Winter Scones in Stockholm (S'<ea'), a special number of the Patho Curette, and ‘ Sallyls- Elopement ’ (Flying conmdv). Seats may be reserved at the Dresden.

KING’S THEATRE. The gipsy romance ‘The Forest Dwell ers ’ forms the chief item at the King s. The whole programme, comprising nine pictures, is of a class worthy of patron ag«NEW QUEEN’S THEATRE.

The top-lino feature of the new show presented at the Queen’s (continuous) Theatre this morning is the Cine’s drama ‘His Solemn Oath.’ but in local interest at all events it is completely eclipsed by the film revealing the Main Trunk railway disaster, which gives a gruesome idea oi the extent of the tragedy. The vans and engine lying in the swamp, the telescoped sleeping cars, and the shattered mail vans, speak eloquently of the catastrophe, and this picture alone should fill the theatre. But, as we have said, ‘His Solemn Oath’ is the authentic centre of the show. Tins drama visualises the disastrous effects that often follow' the blind promises made by a person to a dear one lying at death’s door. The Hon. Dudley Fitzwavren s mother, on the edge of the grave, makes him' promise that he wilt never be party to a duel. Three years later Dudley, infatuated with a dancer, strikes a rival, and then refuses satisfaction. Mo is expelled from his club and deserted by the fickle dancer, and takes the course of going out into the wilder colonies of the Homeland, where he volunteers' for an expedition against-the hillmen. In this wild country he not only saves the expedition from annihilation, ." but rescues a little girl from ruffianly treatment, and adopts her. Ho returns to the Old Country cured of hi* infatuation for the meretricious charms ot the dancer, and devotes his life to his little charge. Other engrossing subjects are ‘ The Thwarted Plot,’ ‘ The White Rose,’ and ‘ Morocco Past and Present. The theatre is open day and night.

PLAZA PICTURES. ‘ From Out of the Past,’ a drama that was superbly mounted and presented with capital acting and photography, headed the new programme screened at the Plaza Picture Theatre to-day. The plot evolved the story ,of how a young man, in order to provide the necessaries of life for his mother, copied an important document, an act which an adventuress used for the purpose of blackmail. Many years later the young man became prosperous, and wished to enter the political arena. Having done so, he considered it his duty to expose the methods of a mining company in which the adventuress and her associates were large shareholders. In order to prevent the exposure she threatened the politician with the publication of his crime of many years before. However, the adventuress was unmasked, the exposure was made, and the politician became the public's favorite. Another fine drama was ‘ By His Father’s Orders,’ in which a merchant’s son was shot by a lady clerk while he was robbing a safe. Other good films were ‘ Buster’s Little Game,’ ‘ The Clever Feller,’ ‘ The Wild Man from Borneo,’ and ‘ Industries and Scenes in New South Wales.’ The same pictures will be shown again to-night.

CAPPING CARNIVAL. The capping carnival will open at His Majesty’s Theatre this evening at 7.45, and the programme will be repeated on Friday and Saturday evenings. The entertainment this year premises to be better than ever, and some very clever items will be included in the programme, and the whole entertainment will provide plenty of amusement. The box plan is open'at the Dresden. Day sales can be obtained at Mr S. Jacobs’s. The doors will open at 6.30 each evening.

GRAND ORGAN RECITAL. On Monday evening, in Knox Church, Mr W. Facet Gale will give a performance of Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim's Progress,’ arranged as a tone poem for the organ by E. Austin. The work is divided into four parte, and throughout the composer reinvests the principal themes with the varying emotions of his characters, The organist will have the assistance of three vocalists.