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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 11 December 1909, Page 2

ROYAL STANDARD PALACE OF PICTURES. c "THE FATAL WEDBIN6." * On Wednesday next, Dec. 15th, the well-known play,- "The Fatal Wedding," will ba staged at; Theatre Royal, Nel- . son. Ale*.rs Clarke, Meynell, and Gunn, fcij-e sole proprietors, have forwarded all tho original scenery and costumes, and • t*e company, numbering 42 English and Australian artists, inclusive of 20 children, will be under the' direction of the well-known theatrical manager, Air Edwin Geach. The Australian season, which has just conclded, has constituted a record for audiences kiwwn in Sydney. The originality of « bringing on to th? stage nearly 20 children, in what is known as the "Tin' Can Band," and then sending them through a series of evolutions to the accompaniment of_ a stirring march song, is a (juainfc piece of stagecraft. AU the principal artists have buen carefully selected, and ■""' the management are sending a complete set of scenery and properties, Eo-tfiat the .-•(tuction should be completeVill. Gvery detail. The box plan is open' 'it Jackson's, where seats may be booked without extra ohaige. Day eale tickets' can &b& be securedat Jackson's. Prices of is, 3n, aijd 2, veill be charged. • V. NotwithstondiSg the inclemency of the weatlier, a large attendance, witnessed the Royal Standard Pictures at the Druids' Hall last evening. At to-day's performunut's — matinee at 2.3o'and evening. at 8 — the 18h complete change of programme will be put on- the -.screen; Some of tho tilms^are—^'<Thß.Lady and the Tiger" (i'rinn Frank Stockton's thriling story), "Beautiful Scandinavia," "Punchtown Steeplechase," "Tobacco Growing," "In British Borneo,'" "Satan's Smithy," "A Romany. Lass," "Scenes from the French Revolution," "The Gold Piece;" -VSandy McPherson's Quiet Fishing Ttip,-\. ."The Schoolboy's Revenge," "Rival' Mesmerists," "Paper Cockadoodles," "Impossible to Lunch," "A Tax on Bachelors," etc.