AMUSEMENTS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 September 1916, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE

I The, Jessie Lasky Famous Players' production of Ealomu' Ingram's extraordinary romance, the "Unafraid," heads tho all new display of moving pictures to bo presented by Pollard's Pictures at tho Opera. House to-night. The play reveals a stirring story of love, intrigue, and revolution ill those ever-warring States, the Balkans. Miss Rita J olivet, an actress | new to the Coast, will he reen in the part of "Delight Warren." Included in the all-new supporting programme is a delightful comedy by Mr ami Mrs Sydi ney Drew, The full'orchestra will render the incidental music. The display will be repeated on Thursday evening for the last lime.

TOWN mil

The Pasquali Film Company present a beautiful story in four reels to-morrow night, "Souls Aflame." It is a most entrancing film, in which tho central figure is Ziii'iu, a charming gipsy main. ii'Ab-'A George Weldon becomes engaged to the young Countess Melford, mid just after leaving her he encounters Zillah in the woods, where the gipey band to winch she belongs are encamped. The two W 9 irresistibly attracted to each other, and on the day when the marriage contract between George and the Countess is to be signed,- just as the former in the pFtia dice of the assembled guests is about to attach his signature, Zillah enters in a startling!)' dramatic manner, embrace* her lover, and then swiftly withdraws. Result: The engagement With the Countess is cancelled. Zillah's action leads to her running away from the gipsies and getting an engagement at a leading theatre, and after a time she and George meet oeain. How the impulsive gipsy girl is drawn from his side by a threat. against George from Alecko, a former gipsv lover; how she. in desperation, stabs Alecko. and. pursued by the rest ofthe band, sets fire to the forest, are-all told in a manner startling in its realism. Retuvnho to George, Zillah is thrust awa;. as"unworthy of trust, and in her wretchedness confesses to the po'iee that die has .killed a men. for which she is put on trial, and escapes punishment only through the appearance of a gipsy with the note writjten by Alecko threatening George's life. This convinces (lie baron of his mistake in repudiating Zillah, and a happy reconciliation results. Manv excellent films have been shown in the Town Hall, but "Hearts'Aflame" excels nil in the lavishness of its settins:, the excellent and appealing acting, and the rrripouig interest of the story. As Zillah, Diana Karren is really superb in tho rhrrm and versatility of her act-

iri."", and th? other characters ably play np to hor lead. The sixth episode cf "The Broken Coin" is full of sensational happenings, including a mad rush on horseback across a. bruize, which suddenly cnllnnsps a'-ifl prpcipilatcs horsp and rider (Eddie Polo) inlo a rnshin? stream forty fort below. Tito supporting nrotrramme includes Abe latest "War Journal." MIXERS' HALL, RUNANGA. Tomorrow (Thursday), at 7.45 p.m. sharp, McLean's Pictures will screen a mest delightful programme of the successes of the mourn picture world. Miss-Marie Tempest, in the big Broadway success, "Mis Hum Pudding," forms the leading attraction. This is a moat interesting picture, and has proved a huge attraction wherever screened. "A Magnet cf Paradise," 2000 ft. a beautiful Edison drmaa, brimful of sensation; the fifth episode of the great serial, "The Broken Coin," displaying many clever incidents enacted !»y those popular artists. Frances Ford and' ('.race Cunard ; a new edition of the popular "Eclair Journal," and a wide-splitting comic, "Bixby's .DeJiuiiner,' complete a most attractive programme.