ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 242, 26 September 1914, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EMPIRE THEATRE. NAPIER. “Hearts Adrift,” the star feature of the now programme at Hayward’s tonight, is an unusually fine drama of the Smith Sea Islands. The plot is a. novel one. Nina., a 12-year-okl Spanish girl, is the solo survivor of a. shipwreck on an uninhabited island in the Smith Seas. She grows up to womanhood all alone among the birds and boasts, until as a result of another shipwreck loves comes into her life. Poor Nina has a short-lived happiness, and thou comes th* l , tragic ending. Tin? supporting films mi the new l>i!i are an entertaining .-election. PRINCESS THEATRE, HASTINGS. “Voto< for Women,’’ a vigorous campaigning drama., in which a love story plays a big part, K the star item on ahi.e new programme to be submitted at the Princess Theatre to-night. The film is over 200(1 feet in length, ami is replete with interesting situations, while the plot should command attention. The programme also includes another 2000 ft drama entitled “ The I’ittail,” by the K.B. Company. Other films of special merit on the programme are “Picturesque Sydney” (Spencer scenic), “Snapshots of Niagara Falls.” and “The .Missing Diamond" (comic). KING S THEATRE, HASTINGS. The change of programme at the Crystal Pictures to-night contains a dramatic gem, entitled “The Lure of London.” Daisy, the younger child of Dr. Westbury, strays from home, and is taken by Charlie Brooks, a child of the gutter, to his hovel in the East End, is adopted by his parents, and is soon transformed into a, flower-seller. Anderson, an artist, asks her to pose for him. Daisy goes to the artist, who paints her portrait. Olga Westbury (the doctor’s elder daughter and the artist’s recognised lover), jealous of her, demands her dismissal. She decides on suicide. Her attempt is frustrated by George Stamford, an impressario. She dances for him, and he gives her an engagement. After a series of exciting events she is knocked down by a taxi, and taken to the hospital, where Sir John Westbury is the head surgeon. H<> examines her injuries, which arc m.r serious, and recognises a locket and chain round her neck. The remainder of the film is full of happy incident. Aliss Ivy Close ’takes the star part in this production. '

“ MISS HOOK OF HOLLAND.” | The. Napier Operatic Society brought their season to a. dose last evening, •aud t-wryom' concerned, including these who paid for admission, will remember with pleasure their pnxluction ! of “ Miss Hook of Holland.” There | lias, naturally, been a ecu: idcrable dii- i ferem-e (t f opinion as to how this last j von’tire compar.-s -with previiais pro j ducticps. and though many no dcuhe 1 preferred such former succe.sscs as 1 “The Geisha” and “The Toreador,” j “Miss Hook of Holland” has won many . favourites. The society’s previous pro- i duetious wore: “The Gondoliers” ' (W8), “The .Mikado” (1909), “The 1 Geisha” (1910), “A Runaway Girl” (1911), “A Greek Slave” (1912) and “ The Toreador” (1913). Th;? consensus of oninion is that the piece just concluded, though hardly so rich in • material and affording loss scope than its predecessors, was well worthy to rank among the society’s femer triumphs. The supervisor (Mr. W. Mitdiell) and the secretary (Mr. Geo. Tudebope) deserve the gren+est credit for the attention thev paid to their . respective duties. The services renJdered'hy Mr. J. Robinson (auditorium imarowr), assisted by M>-. T. Sullivan, ■ mar be judged from the fact that some 4000 nooplo patronised the theatre chiving the season. Altogether the society is to he congratulated—esneeiallv as a considerable a’lunint of “now blood” had h.-'on introduced —both on the allround excellence of the production and the thoughtfulness which prompted the members to vote the net proceeds to the distress fund.