AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 31 March 1915, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

PERMANENT PICTURES. • Uiiol evening a.t the Empire Theatre a well selected programme of ■good pictures was screened, and . there was a large audience. For to-night there will '~e a complete change of programme, in which the great London picture .of national interest, "England's Menace, •finds a place-. The sloiy Is Jlti .iiit«ii«ely interestingr btife, dealing as it does with Ui£ p'ossible invasion of England by a foreign 'Power. In Ahe light of passing events, the interest in tTiis. production grows day by day. T.he national crisis is averted iky th*i Splendid, behaviour of the tvrtJ children of the Prime Minister "and meanwhile England sleeps." Another "beautiful child drama is the • Vitagraph production "Fraid 'Cat." This is the story of "Sonny Jim," who hates to ibe put to 'bed in tile dark; Wilt Daddy has borrowed *303,(X)6 dollars from SkinBitit, and can't repay it, so that night when he and mother are out, Sonny Jim gets up and goes to the moneylender and accuses him of "breaking papa. Old Skinflint- is touched, and the Iboy goes to sleep in his arms. When the parents come to look for him the bill is cancelled. A most amusing comedy by the '"Beauty" Company, "Nancy's Husband" ; a nature study of trained ;pfets; a coloured scenic of the Gorges of Tarn ; a fine tonical of the French Army building bridges and. laying railways ; the latest Gaumont Granhic; and other films will also (be included in this series. Commencing to-day, continuous pictures will be screened at the Empire Theatre 'between the hours of 1 and 4 p.m.' "England's .Menace" and other special films ' will fee shown. Motueka will be visited as usual to-night, and. Richmond to-mor-row night,