AMUSEMENTS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 12768, 10 February 1916, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

FULLER'S PICTURES. , '"The Last Rose" is the chief attraction of a splendid new programme to be shown at the. Opera House to-night. This is an absorbing story of n star actress who retires to the country to recuperate and meets a young minister. He, hears her singing and; falls deeply in love with her. His love is reciprocated and. the hnppy young couple are-married. Her favorite" song is "The Last Rose of Summer," and knowijig her husband's.fondness.for it she has a record made of her voice -singing it. Soon she revolts against the formality and v conventionality of her life; and. seeing her husband' with afriend. she becomes jealous and leaves him. He imagines that she has deserted him. and when ho find,s a letter addressed to her by ■ another ■ man he takes steps to secure a divorce" and succeeds. The passing of years sees the woman return to the stage, but her heart is broken. The minister thinks 'often of his form'er wife, the record of lier voice lies in his desk, but he cannot- use it—yet. Tiring of her stage life the woman decides to return. to the old rectory. Strangely she arrives as the minister takes out the record and puts- it on the gramophone. The woman enters, and the picture has a very happv ending. The snpportine subjects will-be-"Studies in Clay." "Armies of Bulgaria." "Under the Fiddler's. Elms." and "Health bv theYear."

HAYWARD'S PICTURES. A stirring story of circus life "Chil- , dren of the Circus" which heads the ' new nrogramme to be shown to-night -at the Picture Paiace. new programme at the Picture Palace. The narrative concerns a performer, deeply in love with his wife and very happy, suddenly being carried off his mental .balance- by jealously. Ho sees his wife making signs to a handsome lieutenant in the-auditorium. During the performance of- a sharp-sbootiug act, he mistakes his aim-and shots his wife. The succeeding incidents are most absorbing. He- sends his Jittlo daughter to a boarding- school and she becomes a. beautiful and accomplished girl. : She's his. idol. Then comes the tragedy, shown in a most convincing- fashion, that spoils the unfortunate man's lifel and leaves- his daughter broken-hearted and alone. - The supporting subjects will be "A Zeppelin Raid on Paris," "Life in the Balance," -Fatty's and. Mabel's Married LifCj", and "The Peacemaker." Another very interesting, film .win, be that depicting the arrivarof the hospital. ship Maheno.witha large number cf sick and wounded men. '