AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, 21 July 1916, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

PERMANENT PICTURES. I EMPIRE THEATRE. "MY OLD DUTCH." At the Empire Theatre to-night "M\ Old Dutch" wil' be shown. The prm cipal parts in this delineation of Lou don coster life are taken by Albert Che valier and Florence Turner. The pla\ opens on a Whit Monday, down by tht ] Welsh Harp, with costers in great force Joe and Sal have their courtship, am. soon are married. They- lose their firs' babv. but another child' comes to com fort them. There is something of re finement in Sal's face that haunts om from the start, and one day a news paper reports that she has ii:herite< £SOOO from a branch of her family c" higher social standing. 'What terrific e.\ cifement there is in the coster house hold when the news is brought ! \\ ha' a time they give the lawyer, all speak ing together f ißut what a he;irt they show behind their uncouth exterior. Wi. they take the money and spend it "Everv penny of that 'ere money," say Joe, and Sal agrees, "is going to b spent to turn our nipper into a gentle man." The picture traces the your, hopeful with private tutors through h-' college life and. among the flash set c Loudon bloods, and keeps a tine artist: balance. The truth is made known t. Joe and his wife of their boy's behavinui "You have broken vour mother's heart. joe exclaims, "and I could curse the da; vou were born." But Sal just kisses anpats the lad. "I am done with being ; gentleman," he says: "I am going t< try and be a man." Gradually th poverty of Joe and Sal increase—onh one friend remains. 'Erb. who bestowc what comfort he can. Sickness- brins the hospital and eventually the workhouse. The fon is at the goldiields, a'n fortune is smiling upon him. He ha •written home to "his parents, but the have not received the letter. He return to find the old home deserted, his pai ents Heaven knows where. How fat places him on the road of their, where abouts. and what he does to Jarran;their happiness is magnificently told. Th Permanent Pictures Orchestra will b augmented for the occasion. Ourinir th closinsr scene of the picture the words r th e so'ne "ilv Old Dutch" ■will b? recif ed by Mr Sid Bush. The box plan ; open* at the Empire Theatre al! .day Motueka vrill be visited as usual 't<i morrow night.

A special matinee will be given tc morrow afternoon at 2.30. when bo*l the pictures, "My Old Dutch." and. tl. 15th episode of "The Million DoIIa: Mystery," will be screened with spleridi< Supporting items. Prices of . adnilssic-' •wil be adults Is circle, stalls &d.. Chi' dreh wil 'be admStted at the usua price Seats can be reserved in the circle £~ this matinee at tlie Empire Theatre!

THEATRE ROTAL.

PEOPLE'S PICTURES.

A very attractive programme will b screened at the Theatre Royal to-nigh' when "Hearts in Exile." based on novel by the late James Oxe iham. wi ■be shown bvi special request. Clara Kir ball is the heroine of the play, which : 'Russian in theme and sentiment. SI: plays the part of a girl lawfully wedde to two hnsbands, both of whom are ?:i cere in their regard for her. "This sitir tion is the strong- point of a play whic' is full of dramatic situations. . Mr Young has perhaps the most arduous rol of her career in the part of the beautift Hope Ivanovna, and the environmen' "in Tvhich she is placed, is deeply l-oma: ' tic and exciting. The power of Russia police officialism, cruelties to' politic" . and other prisoners who are exiled i Siberia, life in convict stations, Ccssar fights, and a wolf chase, are some of th • incidents of the innumerable scenes o the. drama. Many of the settings we: taken during the past- winter, when t--snow was on the ground and- the wate was covered with ice. The gloomy lifof- Servia; long stern chases over, th-frost-bound rivers: are shown i:\ th

picture. Artistically and dramatically Miss Ybun.fr does the mo-t ambitious an' trying work cf hfr career. This won derfully-gifted- and beautiful young wo man is never satisfied with her work success to hex" always means an incen tive to do .somethinar better and more ef fective for the satisfaction of her mil lions of admirers. As Hhpe Ivanovna U "Hearts in E"xile," she becomes a verit able tragedy queen—pathetic, suffering anguishes, appealing, and_ always lovelj She is an attractive figure to the eye and holds her audience spellbound.by th' intensity of her acting. One' of th' most sensational incidents of the story i; the pursuit of one horseman by anotheon "a frozen river. There is a.fissure.ir the ice and the foremost horsemai plunges head-long into the water and r followed by his pursuer. When thipart of the picture was being ''.made the two men and the horses were almos'' drowned and frozen to death by the terrible experiences through which the;* passed. "Hearts in Exile" is ,a" strom 'story which has been produced regard less of cost. The director w-as James Young, and the supporting cast number* many hundreds. This film, which wil' be supported by other good pictures, "wil be screened- for to-night only.