AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, 18 April 1916, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

PERMANENT PICTURES. "Last evening the Empire Theatre was agah.l well filled when an excellent programme was screened. To-night there ■will be a complete change of bill, and the star feature -will 'be an Edison melodrama, entitled "What Happened on the Barbuda." This is a romance of the sea. Dr. Dislow is sent for to come to Scuth America to attend a ratient and as no passenger steamer is available he. secured a" passage for himself and his granddaughter Ruth on xhe freighter Barbuda. "Benu" Harvey, leader of a gang of gunmen, puts in -v crew of his own men. and plots to steal the cargo of silver. Ruth becomes very friendly with the first mate, Avery. Two days out Harvey's gang mutiny, and Dislow, Avery, and Ruth are made prisoners, the wireless smashed, and the operator murdered. A stcrm. arises, and the boat is wrecked. The mutineers go ashore, and Ruth is ordered to prepare a meal. She put morphine into the coffee jot and escapes back to the ship while the mutineers sleep. She releases the •prisoners, and Avery repairs the wireless. The warship Freedom is signalled and comes to the rescue, and the gunmen are captured. The supporting programme will include an Australian Gazette, and other items cf interest. Motueka will be visited on "Wednesday.

THEATRE ROYAL. PEOPLE'S PICTURES. The programme now showing at the Theatre Boyal was again re.STJonsible for a full house last night. Tt will he repeated to-night for the \. last time. Its principal varied, new prosramme. Its princip-.il feature is a Parisian drama of love _arid tKsillusionment, entitled "Twas Ever Thus." The hero, Charlie Gerard, is a gay young student, who falls readily in Jove "with Marie, a beautiful girl of the Latin quarter. His parents persuade . him. to put Marie aside for the girl they have chosen for him. Lif<; gpeshardly with Marie, and she is turned out penniless on to the streets. Tn her wanderings she meets Charlie '. ;orard, and. overcome with pity, he her into his beautiful home. The jud den appearance of his wife Tenders .'inmediate "explanations necessarv, :. ni while he is explaining the position r:> her the unhappy Marie slips out again into the -darkness, and makes her way to the fatal Seine. Thus, it is suggested, the woman ever pays for the in which she has had- partnership. "Pimple Acts" is an uproarious comedy, in which the redoubtable comedian is seen endeavouring to earn a livinjr ry acting for the "Yessano" Kinem airgraph- Company. The results are exasperating in the extreme to his fellow artists. The fourth episode of the TransAtlantic serial, "The Black Box." vul also be screened. The author, E. P. Oppenheim, undoubtedly knows how to hold an audience on tenter-hooks. This episode throws light on several of the motives in the nrevious episodes, while at the same time lending one deeper into the mystery of "The Black Box." Other films equally good and interesting complete a programme of unusual excellence.