AMUSEMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 523, 4 December 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

CULRE'S PICTURES. To-night a the Rink a fine collection of dramas, industrial, scenic and comedy,films will be sreened, the star picture being a drama entitled "Paid Back." To-morrow evening, two of the very latest topical films wl! be shown. "The Melbourne Cup," run last month, and "Vanniman's Airship Disaster," of which a splendid picture has been secured. These pictures of recent happenings are always popular, and will doubtless draw a very large audience. The star drama is "Arabian Treachery." This has been produced in Egypt, and is in every way an excellent subject. The other items as advertised make a very fine programme. EMPRESS PICTURES. An attractive change of programme for to-night and the two following nights is advertised in the amusement column, for the above pictures. The dramas are all of the best, standing out prominent among them being "Indian Maid's Elopement," which is one of those sensational Western plays so popular with the public, and ia full of pathetic situations. "Judas" is also a thrilling drama of the most attractive nature, and picture-lovers will welcome itß production here. The comics and comedies contained in the programme are of that kind which tend to make you "want to laugh more." On Saturday afternoon the usual matinee will be held at 2.30 p.m., when another change of programme will be given, and picture patrons are promised a feast of the "stars,"both at the matinee and the evening's entertainment. HAYWARD'S PICTURES. Again the Hayward's are to the fore with a splendid programme for next Friday night, amongst the gem pic tures to be shown baing one entitled "Love Unconquerable," a screamingly funny pictture from start to finish. What promises to be the star film of the evening is a love romance entitled "Portrait of Lady Anns," which is a very delightfully pourtraysd. Mr John Bunny and Misses Lilian Walker and Flora Finch appear in one ot the Vitagraph comedies entitled "Pandora's Box," a side-splicting picture. The sensational and thrilling picture of theseriea is entitled "In the Days of the Terror," depicting aa_ the picture does the bravery of the old French aristocrats in the time of their greatest trials uf the French Revolution. The whole programme promises to be highly interesting, instructive and amusing.