AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, 25 May 1916, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

PERMANENT PICTURES.

The last screening of "Infelice" at the Empire Theatre last evening tracted another large audience. Tonight, there will be a complete change of programme, featuring three star 'films,-"The Man from the Desert" .3 a 3000 ft Vitagraph Broadway star drama., After three years' prospecting in the " desert, Warrington and Spencer/ partners, decide to call it quits. After dividing their gold Spencer prepares to start East. Greed takes possession of Mm, and that nitrht he robs his partHeiTof gold and also of drinking water, and leaves a note and a single bullet in a sayino- that that is th.«j easiest wav out. But Warrington not die. He is rescued, and later" becomes rich. Years later, still harbouring thoughts of -vengeance. he searches for' Spencer. Meanwhile he has /met .3 rirl whom y _he loves, and it is only when, he. has ruined ; Spencer financially and, taking the old gun and bullet,-is pointing: to "the wav out," that "he finds it is ~ Spencer's daughter he loves and realises the futility of revenge. VThe - Doll House Mystery"" is a fine -Reliance comedy dramas, and the seventh, episode of "The Million Dollar Mystery"' will J>e screened at 10 p.m. .This is, entitled "The Doom of the Anfcb-. Bandits." The conspirators succeed In. taking Florence prisoner, but- Norton'.-single-handed, defeats the "bandits, and drivestheir auto over the river bank. Ah „ Australian Gazette and of interest are included in the list." " THEATRE ROYAL. PEOPLE'S PICTURES. The large audience presc.nt at the Theatre Boyal night were in no way disappointed at the. bill of fare submitted. 7 Tittle Brun6, the leading actress, In "the'.chief picture, "Iron "Justice," proved ever* more fascinatins on the screen than in the legitimate. "Iron Jus- • tice" is awonder fuJly stayed story of a • stern man, whose distorted ideal of justice wrecks "the lives of those about him. Brand is a prominent financier, and his relentless measures secure for a dishonest clerk of his a term of seven years' imprisonment", which eventuallv breaks his ■wfdowed: mother's heart. Then Brand'? wife <omes under suspicion of unfaithfulness, and his sense of justice Ls crude enough to allow him to employ an unscrupulous' detective to secure .evidence against her. The /detective plies his task industriously, . and, where there is _ any lack in the evidence he finds, he quickly manufactures what is wanted. The result/ is that Mrs. Brand is-expelled from her home, and while her husband goes on till he rises to" the proud post of Lord Mayor, she descends to a life of . shame. In the end she 'forces with .the clerk -.who - has served his term ofc imprisonment; to be revenged on the man who has brought. ruin on thein both/- The supporting items are oarticularly interesting, and include a; TJex dramay Keystone comedy, scenics, topicals, etc. CONCERT IN DBUIDS' HALL. A concert was given in the Dpiids Hall last evening by the Nelson District Girls* Choir assisted by the Ladies "Vocal Union and the Academy Overture Club." The hall -was crowded" and that the. programme was appreciated was evidence by the warm aoplause and the number- of encores. The concert was under the direction of -Mr John Tait, •A.R.C.0., principal of the Nelsons Academy of Music, who had trained 80 girls for;the occasion, • drawn from Nelson- Tahjina, ' stoke atvd 'Richmond. Mr Tait. in the course of a few remarks, said he.hn.d4in mind a scheme of free musical education,. ,with sections in various districts: -He mentioned that the practices for that evening's, concert had been put in band only a month ago, and that the first- combined; practice, was held only on Saturdav last. - -Taking this into sideration »he .'thought ■" those .present would asree that the children had done ■very. wrell:; Mr Taif §&id that the practice hall now in use was too small, and - he- hoped to be able" to secure: 'the Slchool of Masc, .a semi-joublic building, and to conduct- things on a larger scale. * "" The programme, comprised ai pianoforte quartette, -(a Mendelssohn overture) and a - pianoforte "duet (Rubinstein's Taran- ■ telle'in-G-minor). - The Girls' choir, 80 strong, gave* several' items,' the rendering ■Being -.most the children singsongs"'and Highland-'melodies met;, with particular approval from, the audience. The Ladies'"; Vocal Union, besides assist-ing-the "children, in-one' or, two. items, gave-*with- fine effect two parti song's on their <*wn account. 7 Variety was added by- the inclusion- of. a scene-from ''Alice in Wonderland." This was taken, part in bv Ada Graig ( Alice), Ratahi Taylor (March Hare) Hazel; Gem- . mill* (Dormouse) Kathleen Simpson (Cheshire *Cat), and Ken Gibbons' (Hatter). The dialogue was excellently given the children pntenng fully into .the spirit of their respective parts. Altogether. Mr Tait is to be congratulated on the success of . the evening. The concert, it may be added/ -was given in aid of the funds 6f,#he Royal Health Society.