AMUSEMENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15321, 8 December 1911, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

FUIiIERS , HCTUREB.

Tha outdoor inunctions lost night in £ba T shapo of a strong dwire to learn eksctioa raiuita did not intlitato against tho, »tteaddanoe at tho. Princess Theatre. Every K«t n*a occupied, and large nurafcon. 'bod to bo content with standing room., Patrons hod ■? this advantage, that wWlo sitting comfortably enjoying an ootwllsot wid varied'. . picture prognunmo tho oleotioti returns were trow time to time thrown upon the screen. They woro received with ohws or silence according to the political colour of th>! audita*. The now pictured H6rA quito tip-to-datu as to tho happenings d , tlx) present tunc, and wero full ot niiint of a dramatic or comio nature. • Tha. Italian campaign was shown in its initial atages by tDo embarkation of troota, tho ) ' flotilla of battleships orossiog tho Mediterranean, tho bombardment ot Tripoli at & Kafo distance from tho obsolete'armament of tho Turkish forti and over tha fleets if fiehing boats lying idly near Uto show. The unopposed landing ot tho invading troops, i furnUhnl another Rood picture nwl tua encampment in tho palm-covered oasis hod alt the outward uomblanco of a picnic. Iksidus theso woro shown tha biff Hip. jn action on shore, tho quick-firers belchiniß- i destruction, tho telephone opomtot* tnu»- > milting messages to headquarters, and tho officers travelling along tho lines iri,mots* cars or on horsefccck. While tliis%> lifelik* reproductions wore in progroffl Martinelli's orchestra played of propriote martial musio. ikencs connected with opium inKftglini? furnished thu occasion of eeiKotionatinoidtnta in which a roronuo officer is thrown down a cliff and left for dead, but recovws strength and rotisciottsnOT, and is instrument tnl in bringing ti» opium runners to r 't justice and wins o. wife at the samo time. Tho endeavours of an American railway company to purchase a ranch from the srirl-. owner, tlio piojjtfrty being absolutely ncces- • nary for their exploitation, tf wry elderly depicted. Money will not induoe the giri to soil, end tho director of tho company ... sends .his good-looking son to captivate the proprieties by love's stratagems. ."Oio * result is that tli© son beoomos tho TictitfV of tho girl's charms, marries hor, and the,,, happy pair " dish" the company by Iksciining to seil tho ranch at any priooi , Tha comic element is well provided in tho uproar that takes place in "Hie Quiet Houie. 1 which is only stopped by tho intrusion of a woll-traincd leopard that clean tho rievollera out in a remarkably precipitate manner. " Tweedledum nna ono _of hie Tricks" in which tho impenobation of "a very dashing lady attracts a long, train of cdmirom who aro disenchanted whon tho, disguise is discarded, proved vory. diverting. ' t Two and other items that meet'with tfo , fullest approval will bo repeated, to-night,. ' * - and oan rardly fail to again fill tho Prineea Theatre, . HAYWARO'S PICTURES. Notwithstanding tho attraction to stay in the street &ad hear tho latest regarding tho elections, there was a largo Attoftdamo at tho Burns Hull last night, and generous was tho jippkww accorded tho star film " Esmeralda, which is a lengthy • ood ( / pplendidly-octed adaptation of Victor Hugo's masterpiece, " Notro Jiinx> do Paris." Thi other features of tho program mo woro also well roocivcd. 'tfio kwh> series will bo projected for the hut tlmo to-night, and certainly oTeryono should mako a special visit to <co what is probably ono of tho best . motion pictures yet shown hero. THE KING'S THEATRE. Despite tho strong inducements to (haw people away from exhibitions of moving l { pictures last evening, tho King's Theotro. hold a fairly lnrg-j audience, which was n ' entertained and unused for over two houra. Tho pictures are all of a uniform standout j of cxccllonoe, and will bu shown till tho. end of the week. "THE WOMAN IX THE CASE." * A powerful play, which boffins to' gnp tho interest of tho serious-minded onlooker ~ early in tho first act, hokls it through tho • «cond, and intensifies it to the pitch of cxcitemcnt in tho third. Suoh, it is jaid,>, is "Tho Woman in the Case." which is to t bo presented at Hij ilajesty s Theatre on • Thureday nest by J. 0. Williamson (Ltd.). , through Australia and Now Zcal<u)d this Clyde Fitcli drama lias attraciod attoh- ; tion. Tho stirring situations aro deftly built up, ahd tho grwiaa.l unfolding of tho plot arouses evcrincrcasing anxiety to knofcr tho end. As tho thomo ffrows, says ono, , critic, so the thrall grows, until, ot. the ultimate climax, tho tension is pronounced. Tho material used by tho playwright ■ fqr his theme is the great self-sacrificing loro of a woman for her husband. Judging tho enthusiastic prrw notices tho oooipany hss camtd, Dunedin playgoers mar expect " a drnmatio treat. In Miss Mabel Trevor . awl Miss Elinor Foster tho company baa ' two powerful aotrossos, and in "Tho Woman hi the Giso" thor aro iakl to _ havo parts which fit them admirably. Hio • supporting members of the company aro also artists of repute. Tlio plan will open at tho Dresden on Monday mon>io& at 9 ; o'clock.