TO-NIGHT’S PICTURES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 272, 2 November 1916, Page 3

TO-NIGHT’S PICTURES.

Municipal Theatre, Hastings.—The current programme at the Municipal Theatre is a varied and interesting one. The star item is a Trans-Atlantic drama entitled “The Lure of a New World” and is supported by another fine feature entitled “Discontent.” In “The Lure of the New World” we are taken out to wide open spaces and virgin forest lands. There we share in the loves, hates, and strivings of a simple immigrant people, who hampered as they are through an imperfect understanding of the language of their adopted country, start to carve out a ! way for themselves against powerful enemies, and novel conditions. There are two splendid comedies, “Making up Father” and “Saving Susie from the Sea,” a screaming farce comedy featuring Billie Ritchie. The topical journal contains all the latest events, and taken as a whole this programme forms one of the most interesting we have seen for some time.

Everybody’s Theatre, Hastings.— With the exception of the big industrial film, “The National Electric Works,” a complete change of programme will be screened at this theatre to-night. The National Electric Works are the largest of their kind in the world, and the picture throughout is most interesting and of high educative value. The other films are of a varied and entertaining nature, among them being “Salisbury’s Wild Life” and “The Artist and the Brute,” two pictures well worth seeing. A number of the latest official war films are also shown, including a Topical Budget, and some very fine views of Britain’s monster guns. King’s Theatre, Hastings.—There was a large audience at this theatre last night to witness the last screening of “Cabiria.” To-night there will bo an entire change of programme, headed by a bright Triangle pay entitled “The Good Bad Man,” a feature brimful of thrills, laughter, and love galore. “Did I ever have a father?”. The question has tortured the mind of an otherwise normal young man until he has forsaken decent society, and becomes a bandit. When the day conies that he himself falls in love, he forsakes the girl, and leaves her to his rival, rather than ask her to marry a man who does not know his own history. But when he learns that he had a father and that his father was killed by the very man who is trying to steal his own sweetheart, then comes a whirlwind of events, with Douglas Fairbanks plunging through them to a frontier-fighting finish that gives a wonderful thrill to the newest TriangleFine Arts Play, “The Good Bad-Man.” An excellent supporting programme accompanies the star feature. Princess Theatre, Hastings.—The double star list at the Princess this evening has at its head a powerful Vitagraph, and the most recent, and it is said the most laughable of all Triangle-Keystone fun farces. The chief drama, “By The Governor’s Orders,” will be shown in that wonderfully clear photography so identified with Vitagraph productions. Maurice Costello plays the leading part. The strongly dramatic fare will be well balanced by “My Valet,” a most laugh- 1 able three-reel star farce in which all sorts of wild compxications occur. Mabel Normand, Raymond Hitchcock, Mack Sennett, Fred Mace, and a veritable host of Keystone favourites are in the cast, so that the fun should be fast and furious. Other subjects to be screened are: “British Prisoners Arriving in Switzerland,” “Andalusian Dances,” a very captivating reproduction, “Ashville, Carolina,” an entertaining and instructive travel series, and the very latest “Topical Budget.”