AMUSEMENTS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11808, 18 December 1912, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

UNIVERSAL PICTURES.

No less than thirteen films figure m change. These include an English production entitled "Robin Kood Outlawed." Every schoolboy icows .or should know, the story of 2cbin Hood, and ithe film illustrates the amfliar story splendidly, with a realism iit claims the attention from first lo list. "The Internaional Motor Boat iace" depicts the race between Engird and America, in which the former tos with the 750-b.p. Mapleleaf IV. fcthe's latest "Gazette" also holds a eminent position. "The Girl at the ftpul-a" is a thrilling tale of an iron kndry strike, and is an excellent Selig mdnction. "Buster in Nodland." ia a Rightful subject, the various characmof which are acted by children. It i of the class of film that can be readily ,;-p:eciated. "The Prisoner of the II tirem" is one of Kalem's greatest feaI ares and Tecjtes Strang adventures of 1 e American girl and her friend. The | :ory is laid in Egypt and is fascinating | bom the moment of the girl's imprisonI sr.t to her release by her country's 1 athc-Tities. The Tilly girls.are always I »pular in pictures, and their latest esI spades are revealed in "Tilly at a llfcirdinghouse." "Scutari" is of pre-sst-day interest, and the various Turkit trpes and their carious manners are twilv illustrated. "Poppies" form a retty floral study. In "The Deputy's 'sril" a band of counterfeiters are laid nr, after some startling incidents. Tie Sanctimonious Mr Stout" and "A Fater Fight" are both subjects that ress hard on the laughter-making