AMUSEMENTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume L, Issue 175, 8 October 1917, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

PEOPLE'S PICTURES. The popular s'tar= 1 Isir.>M Lockvrood and Mav Allison, will be seen to-night at the Theatre U-.v-U for the hist time in "The Promise." ;. delightful Metro, which was much appreciated by l al '.-, ( * audiepces on Saturday. "The Promise' contains the lesson, in a. story of breath less interest, that a mmi can "come ■ hack." if he is willing t... <io so. and that.'the best panacea for the ills ot civilisation is hard work, dune with a | stout heart in the open air. Thy scenery in this picture is very iiiie. th« :•■ are also «?ome. good supporting jiietmv.-. TUESDAY'S ATTRA-CTION. To morrow night the management has pleasure in presenting a Fox super te:. ture entitled 'The Man from Kilter Roots." featuring the well-known and 'popular William Vnrnum. 1.-ve and adventure vie with each other lor the principal h.tere-M in thi:- ue v Um. An intricate story, whieh ve.t-e- < '• '[W the lives of three pcr'oi!;. ,!<•.:- ;. lth mining condition- m the great \\ e-H An added attraction to a h:gh-c!ass programme is the L-'..s comedy entitled ''The Cloud Puncher.' this being tlie j first of th.ese world-famed laughter- ! raisers to he shown in Nelson. HAYWARD 3 PICTURES. ■The Enmire Theatre was crowded to the doors at both session? on Saturday. when a verv fine was pre «ehted and ' much enjoyed. The same series will be -ereened to-night for the last. time. Tlie feature is "I he Iced Bullet" a delightful comedy-drama fea : turino- Wiiliam Desmond. It deals with "Richard Deering. & wealthy New Yorker, who spends hie- holidays >n his lodge in the Adirondack*. His companions there are his little daughter Evelyn and his ward. Donald Greene. Greene wants to marrv Evelyn, but is forbidden bv Deering to seek the girl's hand, Deering'* reason being that there i<= a strain of insanity in Greenes fatnilv. One night, while Green ..is in New York Citv. Deering is mysteriously shot." A New York crime specialist, Horace Lee. is engaged by Evelyn to solve the mvstery. Lee is at first puzzled a* to how Deering was shot, because there is no weapon m the room, and both doors and windows were locked from the inside when the shot was fired. Finally, however, he discovers an infernal machine in the long wall of the room, arranged in such a way that the freezing of a block of ice caused the firing of the revolver directed at Deering'e bed. Jvtstice, however, overtakes the wrong-doer, and all ends in a delightful close.