AMUSEMENTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, 27 May 1916, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

PERMANENT PICTURES.

There was a large audience at the Empire Theatre last evening, when a good programme "was shown. To-night there will be a complete change of bill, and the star feature will be a 3000 ft. Vitagraph drama, with Maurice Costello in the leading Tole. entitled "The Evil Men Do." Little Beatrice Elton is rescued from some rough schoolboys 'by David Horton. Years pass and David forgets his childhood love, tnough Beatriceremembers. Margaret Eorsythe, asocial climber, marries David, but they are not happy. -She incurs debts, and in. trying to pay them David loses all he ha?. Captain Clifford wins Margaret's 10-sre. and she runs away with him. Beatrice -goes to see David and persuades him to move West and make a new start. Out o" the succeeding tragic tangle comes the decision of Beatrice and David to retrieve the past and seek\ for happiness together. Amongst the several interesting supporting items will be a Chaolin comedv 2000 ft long, entitled "Charlie the Tramp," which will be screened as an extra at 10 p.m. ' The usual matinee was held this afternoon. Motueka will be visited to-night.

THEATRE ROYAL.

people's Pictures

An "unusually attractive programme will be screened at the Theatre Royal "wnight, the principal feature be i-xg "The Trumpet Call," which is an adaption of G. It. Sims' drama of that name. The film is a lengthy one, and is of a .most interesting character. The plot opens -with Redruth, a young man. discovering his wife, dancing <with another, man at a night club. Filled with anger, the husband tears her from 'he club" and'takes her home. She defiantly laughs in his face, and 'he locks her in the room. Next morning she has escaped,* "leaving a note stating that she has done; with a quiet life. She then sets out on a life of adventure, and by her attractive appearance soon ensnares another young roan—Cuthbert —whom «he persuades to .marry- her. Disillusionment soon conies to Cuthbert, and on learning that he has lost- all his money, the adventuress—as she now is—callously deserts him too. ' Cuthbert then falls in love "with a charming girl—'Constance,— and- reading in a newspaper that his wife has died, he persuades Constance to elope with him.- her father; being • strongly opposed to the match, as he wishes "his daughter to marry her cousin Richard." Redruth joins the army, but swears.- to be revenged on his wife, should he ever meet her.again. The whirligig of time brings the. adventxiress : and "Cuthbert face to face again. Cuth•bert "confesses to 'Constance, that he 5s

not lesally married to hjr. tells her to go hack, "with their littK- child, to her father, and he, too, then joins the army. Cousin Richard now presses his claim on the "heart-broken Constance, who at last consents to marry him. Redruth, however, "who has steadily fallen under the influence of drink, one day breaks /from the barracks, and being hotly pursued by the guard, dashes into an open door. ■Here he. comes upon his long-lost wife, and; -drawing a knife tries to carry out his threat. . The life of the adventuress is-inost opportunely saved by Guthbert, and. the at the last moment—in fact,- when Richard and Constance are standing at the altar rails —confesses that she was already married when she persuaded Cuthbert "to marry- her. ■. The supporting p;ctur°s. are excellent, /and include the 10th er-Lsode of the, master serial "The Black Boi." ;'