ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 297, 20 November 1912, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

“THE BLACK CAT." This superb photo-play. 3000 feet in length, will be shown at the Princess Theatr.-', Hastings, to-night. A widow and her son are living in affluent circumstances. The son goes to a University and studios ns a doctor. On his return home as a fully-fledged medical man, he meets his cousin Mary and becomes engaged to her. Once more in town, he saves a young woman from committing suicide. He takes hei home, and she proves hi.s evil star, fo, she is connected with a gang of criminals. and is known as “ The Black Cat.’ Eventually Rolf marries the adventuress, and all might have gone well had not an o'd lover turned up and .vngnfully put justice on her track. The picture is most magnificently staged and photographed. There is also a picture of the Melbourne Cup race, run this month, which should prove a big attraction. The big crowds and the various semes on the racecourse are most inte’erting;

KING S THEATIUI. HASTINGS. At the King’s Theatre, Hashings, r • o.aplite change of programme will !■' deoil n. to-night, wh-u some splendid subjects will be ser.’.'itad. The seea’n ’•icf tres—“ Thro’ Alb Valley to St. Blnison.” “ Indian Temples,’’ and “ Kalian Sv>itrerlund ’’---take the and!-' ■' v>e into many her.utiful places. Two >ntempting pictures pi--turns are “Curious (T -aiiii-.-' is I'o-:d Life ” and “'A Dav in the Life of a Rickshaw Man.’’ The star driwri is “ With th" Enemy’s Help.’’ by the celcbra t-.-d America' Biogrnph Company. A discouraged. I prospector is about to give .up hij -e:n'<-h for the co'-eted ore. w’-->n h : ' st -vs his two children pniying: “I’b av-. God I'elp p i'v ti-d gold.” Tlmir fidid sits '-.i'll new lione. and the ir yai" is e hraeiciis. for lu? decs i’. ■ 1 it. st so stakes the claim, intending to regis-t-*r it at his earliest opportunity. Wlii! tin- f’tiiilv is luuehing at th? camp “Faro Kat ■ :.•■! her gandder hn‘baud rid? bv the <-bim and jvmn it. t ! < ■■ usbard urging Kate to go to the elnla and register it. Kate, win doc not s? ? the ne-essity of haste, is slot in starting. When tlm prospector r Jo j,; s diggings h." finds the I g :m!d.-r in possession, and in tin ’ struggle which ensues the prospecto j falls and is hurt. Tit prospector’- ! wile, arriving at the claim, realises th | situation in a flash, and is determined ; to win the rave to the claim office, fo; ! site feds that the claim juniper ha‘ i --tart .-d for that place. By a most unions J * i-k of fate she wins out. The otbei j dramas are “ Stolon Ring.” •* Tin ! !.i:-t; Pro.'id.'nt’s Son.” and “Sup i i'-e<'?d Evidence." all interesting films I’h-e comii s. which are guaranteed t< I Take everyone laugh, are “ WheI Daddy was Wise." •‘Ftifors«??n Events” [ ind “ I’elidor Betrotiied.” The sami i programme will !>e sc-reetiod on Friday | and Saturday evenings.