TO-NIGHT'S PICTURES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 259, 18 October 1916, Page 2

TO-NIGHT'S PICTURES.

Princess Theatre, Hastings.—Among the star features on to-night’s change of programme is “I’m on my way to Mandalay,” a special song film which has not vet been shown in New Zealand. During the screening Mr. F- 8. Thomas will sing the song, from which the picture has been adapted. Another of the complete “Stingaree” stories, entitled “The A’il'ian AA r orshipper,” is included on the list. In this picture the bushranger, Stingaree, takes ip hand a misguided youth who seeks to copj’ his feats, and cures him at the cost of a great self-sacrifice. There is a surprise in store for Stingaree followers in the closing scene of this episode. Two good comedies, including a 2000 ft. Triangle. “The A’illage A’ampiro,” featuring Fred Mace, together with splendid scenic, topical, and cartoon pictures, complete the bill. Everybody's Theatre, Hastings. — “The Ballet Girl,” shown last night, was a most distinct success, the photography, settings and p'ot, being a long way above the average. The ballet dancing is a feature in itself while the plot is thrilling. Alice Brady has an ideal part, and is ably supported by Holbrook Blinn. Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Drew appear in a laughable comedy “The Count of Ten” and the. Topical Journal is interesting, This programme will be shown to-night only. King’s Theatre, Hastings.—Ani(a Stewart and Earle AVilliams, the popular motion-picture artists, play the leading parts in “The Sins of the Mothers,” which will he screened at this theatre for the first time to-night. Anita Stewart takes the pari of the daughter of Julia Swayne Gordon, who runs a society gambling house. Anxious that Who girl shall never learn the vice, her mother sends her to a convent to be educated. But the inborn taint wi.l out and in the years that follow, a husband (Earle AVilliams) has io battle to save his honour and a young wife from the clutches of the gambling fever. This powerful photoplay, which is said to be Vitagraph’s greatest dramatic picture since “The Juggernaut;” is supported by an enjoyable list of films, including a splendid comedy, Hayward’s, Napier, —“Five Nights”: This widely censored and censured but universally read novel by A’ictoria Cross has now been adapted to the mo- 1 tion picture screen and has been approved by the British Board of Censors. The picture portrays a' fascinating love idyll and five wonderful adventures in the life of Trevor Lansdale, a successful artist. The “Melbourne Ago” said of this production “Five Nights”! is not half so suggestive as musical comedies of the “Girl in the Taxi” type. Anybody who is at all shocked at this film will bp very easily shocked.” The part of' A’iola, a wealthy cousin of Lonsdale who unites her life to his is taken by Miss Eve Balfour, an Australian girl who has made a big reputation in the picture world. The setting and mounting, and in fact the whole production of “Five Nights” as a film can only be described as ranking with the highest class of photo-dramatic art. '