AMUSEMENTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 15 October 1915, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

PERMANENT riCTURES

There was a large audience at the Empire Theatre last- evening, when "Australia's Unknown" was again screened. To-night there will be a complete change of programme, and in addition' to the ordinary number of pictures a special Transatlantic feature of great interest will be screened. This is a drama entitled "Wheels Within Wheels."' Series 10 of the "Adventures of Kathlyn" will also be a feature in this list. This chapter is entitled "The Warrior Maid," and tells how. after the disappearance of Kathlyn and Winnie.. Umballah. is told they axe without the gates of the city. He sends troops to capture them. Meanwhile Colonel Hare's party have organised a movement against the Prince, and of this Kathlyn becomes leader. The lions escape, and she is separated from her friends and followed by a huge lion. She takes refuge in a vacant house, but there finds other lions. Umballah passes, and hears her call for help. He cruelly sets a torch to the huilding, leaving her trapped on the balcony -with lions waiting below. The supporting programme will be very varied and most interesting, and includes several fine dramas, a Keystone and other comedies, an Australian Ga- J zette, and several cartoons and topical J films. Motue&a will be visited on Sat- J UTday. {

"TOlt'MY" IX "HIS TRUE COLOURS. "It's thank you, Mr Atkins, when the "band begins to play," wrote Kudyard Kipling in peace times, and how truly he •wrote who will deny to-day. The whole lKinpire is thanking "Mister Atkins"; and is ready to do anything to make his lot" more comfortable than it has ever been in the past. The new Kinemacolour may be said to show "Tommy" in his true colours. It enables us to see him in camp in England, in bivouac in France, in the trenches. We see him in Flanders —at bay before the might of the soulless Buns. "And it is all shown just as it is, with the grass green, the roads brown, the' cornfields yellow in the sunlight, and those touches of bright colour that are the reminders of the scarlet tunics of a quarter of a century ago-. In the picture "The lighting Forces of Europe," a splendid idea is given of the military strength of England to-day. The onlooker witnesses a regiment of infantry on the march in full equipment, a marchpast of 'Highlanders and .cavalry that makes the audience rise in its enthusiasm, a corner of a British camp and what goes on there, the Army Service Corns at work, views, of the Red Cross nurses for th'e (front, and what is of intense interest, the enrolling of recruits at the grey old Tower of "London, where "the flower of / the brave have perished with a constancy unshaken" (to quote W. S. Gilbert). There have been faked war pictures in plenty exhibited to the public, and now and again one has got a glimpse in black and white of the real thing, hut exactly what the scene is like those pictures cannot tell, simply, because the living factor ] is missing—colour. With" this idea predominant, the Urban management set themselves the task of "painting the picture", as it is, giving the world the opportunity- to see the contending armies in the titanic struggle that is now shattering the world exactly as they appear to each other and to themselves. It is only in the Kinemacolour that you get the Teal character of the men, the real tone of" the country in w-hich they are operating, the real "tints of their uniforms, the -. "' exact shades of their-horses and equipment. It- is a picture thaty will be found helpful to all in drawing truer conclusions of the fighting forces of Europe. The season of the Kinemacolour Pictures of )he "Fighting Forces of Europe" will commence on 'Wednesday next, hy arrangement with Mr tH. Saunders at the Empire Theatre, for two nights only.

PEOPLE'S' PICTUBES.

SCHOOL OF MUSIC,

..The 12th episode of "The Master Key" will be -screened to-night for the last time. This chapter is just as fascinating as/the previous ones have been, and relate how John Dore (the hero), Ruth Gallon, (the heroine), and Nelson Smithera (an Indian linguist), set out for India to endeavour to discover the-In-dian idol which, will give them the information as to the locality of a_ lead of gold in, the -big mine, round -which the plot circles. The vflJain (Wilkerson) also arrives in India to frustrate the efforts-of the iero and his party, to secure the idol for himself. Smifchers during the search, comes across a native, who h*d -bsen his servant during a previous visit to India, and -his services are enlisted. The atmosphere of the East is excellently reproduced, and some views of the interior of a temple are shown. At last the whereabouts of the idol is located, and arrangements are made for its theft hy Dore. Smitners, however, has been enamoured of Ruth. Gallon ,and' plays Dore false. He tells the heroine that Dore is keen to secure the idol for his own ends, . and that if he can get it into his possession he will disappear and leave her in the torch. The girl is beset with doubt, and Smithers completes his plan- to prove his words true. The native leads Dore into the temple, and then betrav Mm, to the keen delight of Smithers, who is hiding watching, and working out his diabolical plot. Dore is at once secured by the guards, and thrown into & prison, and the stofy abruptly ends here in he meantime. There will also be shown a star drama, 4000 ft., entitled "Absinthe."- Tins picture portrays the gradual ruin and brutalisation of a once decent workman through drink, and it is a page out of the sordid life of to-day, which thrills by its vivid realism and tintrles with strength and truth. King Baggot has excelled himself as the drunken sot, and Leah Baird, as the wife, acts her part to perfection. The picture, which is an all-British exclusive, will be shown for two nights only. Special selections by the Peoples' Orchestra will accompany the screening of "Absinthe."