AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 19, 24 January 1919, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

HAYWABJD’S PICTURES, “EkFIT POOKETS.” "Empty Pockets” is one of the best sellers written by Rupert Hughes, and besides being a wonderful book, it is also a work that is admirably adapted for the screen, and the big audience at the Empire Theatre last evening was kept in a simmer of excitement throughout the unreeling of this wonderful picture, which will bo finally shown tonight. It is doubtful if a bigger mystery tangle has ever before been devised. It is a First National release, the cast including Kitty Galanta, Barbara Castleton, Bert Lytell, and Malcolm 'Williams. The last-named takes tht role of Perry (Merithew, a millionaire about town who has a' special weakness for girls with copper-coloured hair. He is found murdered on the roof of a tenement house, and five women, all with rfed hair, are implicated’ because in the dead man’s hand is found a knot of hair of that The plot retains a remarkable clarity in spite of amazing complications and all sorts of cross currents which go to increase the mystification. The ending IS very dramatic and unexpected. The characterisation and setting of the piece are perfectly done, and the contrasts between the alum dwellers and the millionaire mansions is very effective. The latest Pathe Gazette supports the above super-fea-ture. ."MY FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY.” AT MOTUEKA ON MONDAY. Numerous prophets predicted that if America declared war against Germany ehe would be hampered by internal . strife caused by her large GermanAmerica population as to be practically useless as an ally. The?® prophecies proved to bo as incorrect as thousands of other forecasts regarding the conflict. The question arises: Why have those German-Americans caused so little trouble? The answer is to be found to a great extent in Ambassador •Gerard’s "My Four Years in Germany." As a book it had a great influence, and the clear manner in which it presents 'the. facts of the case hap gone far to convince possible Germaij sympathisers in America that it is only by loyalty to America that Germany can bo truly aided, .since only by defeat could Germany hope to free herself from the terrible incubus of Prussian military autocracy. Although a very long film, "My Four Years in Germany” grjps the interest from first to last as powerfully as the finest romance could). It will be shown at the Institute Hall, Motueka, on Monday evening. Intending patrons may reserve seats at Shilton's, the, box plan opening to-day. Richmond ■will be visited on Tuescjqy, Wakefield on Wednesday, and Takakf on Thursday.

PERMANENT PICTURES. • in—n^MHl At Wakefield to-morrow evening there will be screened the picture version of Rupert Hughes’s book, "Empty Pockets,” a sensational story of the murder of a Millionaire. The jilm has been a success at its presentations in Nelson.