PICTURE ENTERTAINMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 16195, 17 August 1916, Page 8

PICTURE ENTERTAINMENTS

QUEEN'S THEATRE

The .star feature of to-dav's new programme at the Queen's Theatre is the Vitagraph Company's blue ribbon feature ' From Out the Big Snows.' The story is one that makes a huge appeal to those who enjoy tales of adventure, endurance, and daring in the great out-of-doors.' The love theme is well woven in, and advantage lias been taken of the primitive natures of the trappers who live- in the snow-clad forests of North-west Canada. The picture describes a rigorous storv of adventure. Edwin Harrie, a young miner, falls in love with a beautiful dance hall girl who has a fiercely-jealous halfbreed lover. The drama shows how only the intervention of a young doctor prevented the half-breed's fiendish vengeance from being carried out. This picture is will supported by a. Triangle-Keystone comedy entitled ' The Village Scandal.' Fatty Arbuckle and Raymond Hitchcock are the star performers, and betvrccn them 'The Village Scandal' kept the audience shrieking with laughter. The French oilieial war film, showing General Mahon's defences at Salonika, proved most interesting.

KVKR YBODY'S THEATRE. The Famous Players' society drama ' Aristocracy' is the big feature at Everybody's Theatre. The story concerns the domestic and society life of two wealthy Ainerocans who go into London society. Jefferson Stockton takes Iris daughter Virginia and her young stepmother to England, where they rent the mansion of the Marquis of Normandle. Virginia is engaged to Stuyvesant Lawrence, but the iatter's parents object to the marriage, and wish him to marry anothi* woman! Lawrence, to escape his parents, goes to England, but he is followed by them. They intercept his letters t-o Virgina, who thinks, on account of receiving no replies, that she has been forsaken. Mad with grief, she becomes the wife of a man who marries her not for love, but for money. Shortly after her worthless husband becomes involved in financial difficulties, and is left to himself, while the Stocktons return to America, where Virginia meets her former lover, and learns that his love for her is as strong as ever. Kventually the villain meets his death •accidentally, which contributes to a happy reconciliation of the principals. Tyrone rower, the lea-ding man in 'Trilby' and ' The Only Way,' which toured New Zealand some time ago, plays the leading part, supported by a very fine cast. There are several other good films. KING EDWARD. A new programme will be offered to patrons of the King Edward Theatre tonight, a programme which contains several attractive films. These include ' The Purification of Mulfera ' (being the eighth episode of the serial ' Stingaree') and ' Cinders of Love' (a comedy featuring Roscoo Arbuckle). There are also two scenics and a Gaumont Graphic.

The attraction at the Plaza is still the ' Fruits of Desire,' a big five-part drama. The detective drama ' Otranto' continues to be popular with patrons at the Grand.

' Bullets- and Brown Eyes' is the head line film, at The Octagon.