AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, 20 July 1916, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

PERMANENT PICTURES. I EMPIRE THEATRE. I A most interesting programme wa? | that shown al the Empire Theatre las' \ r.it-hi. The departure of the Eighth ! Reinforcements and the Pathe Uazett-. contained items of more than usual interest. The fifteenth e.iisode of "lhr Million Dollar Mvs-tery." entitled "Ini Borrowed Hvdr.ir.lam-." is a mo.-t exciting number, well calculated to maintain the keen interest taken m thn serial. This programme will be repeat e- j to-nieht. The screening of "My 0< j Dutch" in Nelson, commencing; to-mor- j row night, will he an event in cim; | mato-raphv in this city, as seldom. 1: j ever, has a moving picture oeen re-en. rr j v-ith such general anoroval wherever V has been shown. This drama is a ri.n version of the world-renowned sosumade famous by that great aitist_ Al bert Chevalier, which contains trie lines We've been together now for forty vears An' it don't seem a dav too much: There ain't a ladv iivin' in the land \s I'd swop for mv dear old Dutch Fortv vears of marrie<l life—think %vb;>can hapnen in forty years. All tm elemental human passions and expt'ii ences are compassed within them. J< Poudd meets. Sal at a coster picnic, air fi~ht<* for her. He wins her love anmarries her. Ore of the finest bits o acting in the play portravs their hone-. moon visit to the "Vic." From tlv front row of the gallery they see H-; trave-i; or. Sin's First lie-rinmngs. -Vn'd how thev eniov it! 'I hen to t!" tumble home, and life for them oegmThrough that battered old d..;rway !' , a bark street come birth and ! troubles. trials. tribuiations—out . i their hearts dwel'.s love—the love th- ! endures, and makes their roiv ; road smooth. Albert Chevalier »., Florence Turner are the c-vstars. I litfrring out all the beauty o* the stoiThev don't simnlv pose and look prett and" strike attitudes. Thev live Inparts, and make the onlookers live thetoo. Theirs is the master touch. lr plav'i= clean. It is sweet. It is wii', : . <=ome It touches the tenderest spot i the human heart. It £*oes right dow to the bottom of things, and bungs v nothing but good. THjEATTRE BOTAL. PEOPLE'S PICTURES. There was a good atendance of d. lighted picture patrons at the Ihe a. Roval last ni<rhi. when an excellent pi tunsat'on of Robert W. Service s poerr "The Shooting of Dan McGrew w.-> screened. The lead is taken by Edmm. the noted American actor. ir «torv is concerned with the base betray ■ of the hero's friendship bv another mm; who steals his wife, the injured friend pursuit through lonir and weary >e?r of the callous home-breaker, and tn latter's death finally at his pursuer hands. The picture, taken amid th -\laskan snows, shows some wondertphotographv and scenes which cor. have been imagined and devised only o a master-mind in the art of producti." Such visions as those afforded oy long line of sledse-dogs mnkine the- , wav over the Yukon trail. Dan M< Grew's daring lean on horseback trorn elifif into the rapids, and the many fitsun and- cloud effects in the land _< snows, cannot fail to be appreciated, -aextremelv good example of double eposure work is that in the third rc<> where Dan McGrew and his pursuer arerJ r esented a s bavins a vision ol e-x----other, and of the final meetme in wlmthe account must be paid. This is ve> cleverly arranged—the whole scene n inc.enacted with intense realism tetwe. • the "two men until the figure of Dan V' Grew slowly fades away leaving t! other alone "with his dream. The forcib! =- acting of Edmund Breese comes out ver well* in this incident, as it does al-o . manv other parts of the film—notably i that part -where he is shown sitting • the piano in the Ma'amute Saloon, ir' long odyssey in search of his enemy ov at fast." The picture is assisted thruugr „..* U— linna ii-nm ihn rsnem thrown O

the screen as sub-titles. The- sapportin. film* are tip to tlie usual high stand.-"-shown at the Theatre Royal. "Dan M Grew" will he screened again to-night with a complete change of supportin subject*. On Friday evenin-r the mai ; j«sement pre?e::t the fascinating actresr • Tiara Kimball Younsr. in "Hearts iExile/" particulars of. which will Vgiveii tc-morrow.