ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 24 April 1913, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE WORLD'S PICTURES

There was a large audience at the Opera House on Wednesday night 10 witness the new selection of pictures* Tlie films were, first-class and received an enthusiastic reception. The stadrama, entitled "The Eye of the Idol," held the audience spellbound. The plot was centred round an Eastern idol, and the development of the subject involved the life of an inventor and his grand-daughter. Two of the employees in the factory become suitors to the girl, one of whom is rejected. The grandfather makes his will in favor of the accepted suitor, and his grand-daughter, but the rejected suitor, in a spirit of. jealousy, murders the grandfather and forges a will in favor of himself. The murder takes place in the inventor's study, and the idol, which contained a cinematograph machine, by some mechanical contrivance, is set in motion on its own account, and photographs the villain in the act. The accepted suitor, knowing of the working of the machine, has the film developed, and, the plot being revealed, has the picture shown from the outside of the villain's window. The villain sees the picture, and, being frightened, proceeds to obtain the original will from his safe, when a detective conies on the scene and arrests him. He, however, escapes from the police, but the picture, however, has a happy ending. This picture was supported by other excellent dramas. "A Substitute Model" described a woman's sacrifico to save her sister's sight. "The Derelict's Return" was a domestic drama, depicting how an erring son was restored to respectability. "Kitty and the Bandits'' held a moral for practical jokers. The acting of the performers was very good. "An Empire Maker" was an interesting sketch of the career of Cecil Rhodes, and, incidentally, set forth the industrial progress of -Rhodesia. The scenic films, "Scenes of Mozambique and "Rapids of the Kama River, Japan." were very interesting. The comedies were well selected and very amusing. The Lyric Orchestj-a contributed . good music, which was much appreciated by the audience.