WHAT THE MOVIES ARE DOING

Free Lance, Volume XVI, Issue 839, 4 August 1916, Page 10

WHAT THE MOVIES ARE DOING

NEXT WEEK'S FEATURE FILMS

King's—"A Tale of Two Cities." ■ Everybody's—"The Eagle's Nest." Town Hall Conceit Chamber—"Jane Shore." Empres—"The Bright Lights" and "Youth." "Jane Shore." A SPECIAL picture attraction commencing next Wednesday evening will be the screening of "Jane Shore" at the Town Hall Concert Chamber. This is a top-liner feature'' film, relating a charming romance of the. Court of England in the stormy days of the Wars of the Roses when King Edward IV. was in power and sought the hand of Jane Shore, who-was in love with Matthew Shore, a bitter eneniv of the Kinc As the_ story is unfolded many startling situations are disclosed! showing the battles of Wars of the Roses. The picture has been shown all over the world, and over 5000 people take part in the production. The lonal season is. restricted to a run of five- nights. Popular prices will prevail and. seats may be reserved at the Bristol Piano Company. « h ' • . •*■ Everybody's. The programme shown at Everybody's Theatre during the week has been drawing very big houses. The star picture, "Charity Ann," featuring that -popular artist, Elizabeth Risdon, is a very fine production by the London Film Co. It is a very stirring dramatic subject with, a pathetic love storv running through it. * . * ■* » "The Eagle's Nest." This is a big 6-reel Lubin drama "to be screened at Everybody's next Week. It is a tale of adventure crammed with excitement and melodramatic surprises. The supporting films include "Mutt and Jeff in an Aeroplane," and the latest Topical Gazette. * * - * * Bullets and Brown Eyes. This is the romantic piece de resistance at the King's this week, and it is su "filler" *all right. The dramatist has built up a gripping plot on the.lines of "The Prisoned of Zenda," and the incidents follow each other so rapidly that *> your interest isn't allowed to flag for a moment until the end arrives. Like • Romeo and Juliet the lovers belong to aristocratic houses which are at deadly feud—in fact at war—but love triumphs over faction, and unlike the ill-starred Romeo and Juliet these lovers triumph /. over all obstacles. A special interest attaches to this particular picturedrama for the reason that the hero's .part is sustained by the Ameroan actor, William Desmond, who played a season in Wellington only a few years ago. The supporting films are varied and pleasantly occupy the first hour of the evening, viz., "Pathe Gazette," "Physical Education," "When Flowerland ,'-. Awakes in Japan," and a screamer, "Mutt and Jeff in a Hospital." " A Tale of Two Cities." The altering of the time of running the. south boat on Saturday nights has somewhat dislocated the arrangements of the picture theatres in Wellington. It is .announced that in future the new programme at The King's "will com- ■ v mence on Saturday night instead of Monday as heretofore. Therefore, "Bullets and Brown Eyes" will be screened for the last time at the mati-

nee on Saturday afternoon, and on Saturday night "A Tale of Two Cities," a powerful rendering in film form of Charles Diokens' great historical novel of the French Revolution, by the Vitagraph Company, will be screened for the first time. Maurice Costello is said to be very fine as Sydney Canton, and a strong supporting cast has been selected for the minor characters. Excellent and varied supplementary pictures will also .he shown. * * * * The great travel picture, "The -All Red Route." which is creating quite a stir in Auckland this week will be screened at The King's Theatre for a week commencing Saturday night. August 12th * # # V Empress. The populav Empress Theatre will • change its programmes every Saturday morning in future. The new order will begin to-morrow with a double attraction. The star dramatic production will be the Vitagraph Company's success, "Youth." The pathetic story of an artist's wife, who after making him famous by her wonderful beauty and artistic posing as his model, discovers it was her youth that her husband loved, and she sees in him the desire to pursue youth that he might transfer it to his canvas. The pathos of the story is very affecting, but the play ends in a happy manner. The comic draw will be Mabel Normand and Fatty Arbuckle in a screaming farce, "The Bright Lights." It is guaranteed by the management to be the merriest and inost laughable farce that Mabel and Fatty appear together in. There are other attractive items on the bill. * * * * Marguerite Snow has just -recovered from injuries received while -working in "A Corner'in Cotton," a five-part duction recently completed. While racing in an old-fashioned buck-board to catch a train on the outskirts of Savan- : nah. Georgia, one of the back wheels came off, and Miss Snow was precipitated violently into the road. Bhe rolled for some yards over the gravel and rocky surface, and, in addition to severe bruises and scratches all over her body and face, she sustained three fractured ribs.

Charlie Chaplin is reputed to be something of a Harry Lauder when it comes to spending money. He is in receipt of £2000 per week from the Mutual Company ; but on his month's recent trip to New York, where he was publicly feted by everyone, from the exclusive "400" to the Bottle-blowers' Union, the newspapers recorded that all he spent was twenty-eight days. Chaplin, however, is sending over to England £1000 every week for investment in the war loan. He is now busy on his third Mutual comedy. The first, "The Shopwalker," was screened in Wellington at Everybody's and the Empress all last week with marked success.

The screen artist seems, not only to enjoy watching himself, but appears very much _ interested in his fellowartists', achievements. When Marguerite Clark's "Silks and. Satins", was shown in New York recently, that diminutive actress brought her family and watched her cinema through the story. And as Miss Clark is one of the most finished of the moving picture players, numerous 00-artists went to see and to admire. Marv Pickford was there with her husband, Owen Moore, also a player, and her mother. Then there were in the same audience: Fanny Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew, Hazel Dawn, and "Fatty" Arbuckle.