AMUSEMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1919, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

-“. * teE^s^cn^^: g VAMBEICAN,: AFtISTOGBACT. ’* ; '‘American' Aristocracy^ 1 the leading picture at the Theatre Royal to-night, » & ‘five-reel -Triangle fifin, and it is hufilQieafc to say of it that Douglas is the leading figure in it, - reputation a« .the -biggest hustler in thjj movies. He talipes the part of Caseins Dee, a wealthy fung man who finds ths monotony of a rather boresome. But one day an unknown and pretty girl'leap® t from a motorcar and -kisses him, ; -This is because ahebas sworn to-kiss the first man •wKci. ‘-fills her ; ideas of‘what a man tould look like. She -is Hiss Hick, e character being' portrayed by Jewel Carmen, After bssing L*e«he motors He swears to find her, but in the search stumbles on a gup-mnning plot in which Mexicans are coopered. The chief plotter is a Percy Eforion, who is ostensibly a malted milkinanufacturer, and, who. desires to marry Mies Ward. Fairbanks in tracking down the plotters goes through a hurricane of adventures, wearing his usual! smile and working off eotue startling athletic stunts* The conducting * chapter ,of "The Neglected Wife” othergood pictures complete a first-class programme. , HAYWARD’S PICTURES. MUSIC AND PICTURES. A'treat was afforded the large attendance at .'the Empire' Tfieatre last «Vemng,-' when, in addition.- to the pleasing programme; that. had * previously attracted iarge audiences on Saturday and Monday, the manager introduced Mi Colin' Campbell, the <alerted pJayer of the English concertina, • ’ who has just fihihad- a successful season on the Fuller Circuit;To many in the audience who had only faint ideas of/tfie concertina and its capabilities, in the hsndiE of a professional Mr perlorman must have been a plpasarlt surprise,. The player was 1 twice recalled amidst tremendous applapj#. His numbers included “Robert B- Lee,” “Poet and .Peasant,” “The Do# Idhord,’ “Scottish Aim," and, the -quaint Hawm iaa > song, with concertina accoropani mieni, “Yaka Hula, Hickey Dula.”. Mi Campbell ha been engage#! for a short season, and will appear ■ lln conjunction with th(i above artml there wili be rhown this evening a full pbogratome of pictures headed by th< guc-reel super-feature, “The Daw oi with Norma T#roadg< in 'tibe leading role, which-stye caryiea of with -her' usual unfailing ar-istry. .“Th< Law' of Compensation” 4f f W«ct production', and is oonsutenf.V good: ab through. It is a story mthin a story ■*; difficult method of and success in this play is therefore all tiu more Complete. Norma $» a ypunj -married woman who finds fhe ordinary WUnd pf life rather irksome and com meocea to -play with, fire.*. Her fatfiei hears .. of the threatened (disaster, am hurriedly .visits her. Thep hje 1 tells hei tragio story of kcrmother, wh< JXjgft’tftdd en the same path of folly, am ‘pmd'the 1 penalty of- ail who flput fh< ■■iiiwa of compensation, Tfie effect, of th< Vtory on. the'young woman ’ makes « dramatic climax to a play of fine dra jnStic’ power.