AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, 29 May 1916, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

PERMANENT PICTURES.

In"spite of the inclement weather large audiences attended the Empire Theatre -at- both the matinee and the evening "performance on Saturday last. To-night there will be a.change of programme: in conjunction with the seventh part of -The 31illion Dollar Mystery," which, by the way. is a most interesting, and "sensational number, and the {jhaplin comedy entitled' "Charlie tiie Tramp," which is by no means the -worst of these now famous extravaganzas. The star. picture in the new programme is entitled "Vengeance/' a. sensational drama in three parts, 30C0ft long, by the Essanay Company. This is teeming with exciting incidents and marked in- splendid acting and beautiful photography. The supporting items will inclnde topical gazettes, scenic Sim?, etc., the whole making a most interesting - evening's entertainment. Prices are as usual, and patrons arc requested to book circle seats, for which the box plan is now open ('phone 185).

THEATRE ROYAL. PEOPLE'S PICTURES. A - - packe<s matinee on Saturday and a very large audience in the evening \v;tiessed the first screening of the curTent programme. The principal feature . was "The Trumpet Call," which is < n adaption of G. R. Sims' drama of that name. ; The film is a lengthy -one, nnd isi of a : most interesting character. The plot opens with Redruth, a young man. discovering his wife dancing with Another mail 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 looks her in the room. morning she has escaped, leaving a note stating that she has done with a quiet life. She then sets out' oh a life of adventure, and by her attractive appearance soon ensnares another young man—Cuihbert —whom *ht persuades to marrv her. Disillusionment soon come 3 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 Btronglv 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. ihe whirligig of -time brings the- adventuress and Cuthbert face f? face again. Cuthbert confesses to Consignee that he -s not lesallv married to liar, tells her H <ro hack, "with'their littw child, tohei rathe-, and he, too, then joins the army. €ousin Richard now presses his claim or the heart-broken Constance, who at. .ast consents to marrv him. Redruth, however, who has stfadily -fallen under the influence cf drink, one day- breaks .roir the barracks, and beisg hotly pursued by the guard, dashes into an open door. Here he comes upon his long-lost wife, arid drawing a knife tries to-carry-out his threat. The life of the ut advent£re*F is most cpnortunely saved by Cuthbett : and the woman; at the last moment—infact.- when Richard and Constance ..-are Standing at the- altar-xaib^-conf essef that she was already married when £he persuaded Cuthbert to marry/her. supporting picture are excellent, -no include-fA 10th of tW ninsre-ee-nal' "The Black Box." Ihe series will be repeated; to-night.