QUEEN'S THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17328, 30 May 1918, Page 2

QUEEN'S THEATRE

All lovers of moving pictures will appreciate the new programme at the Queen's Iheatre. The most popular film is "Tlie Adventurer," with Charlie Chaplin in a part that smts him well. Tlie scene opens with armed warders searching a rocky seashore for a convict, who is Charlie, and their vain endeavours to capture tlie runaway are as entertaining as they are ludic-l-oiis. Much foolery in the comedian's be«t vein keeps the audience in roars of WhJ 01 '", . I} ? e convict is at last "friven awa °" b v his rival, and the advent of the prison p ? sse , °" t'} 0 scone results in a mad chase about the house, and Charlie, by his dex terity. at last gets clean away. Tlie otlirstar film "Until Thev Get Me," is of entirely different character. It is a thril. ling tale of the North-west Mounted Police' whose boast is that they "always get their man. A pioneer of the Canadian prairie m a rash moment kills a man aild lv> comes an outlaw. lie vows that he will visit. his home once a year to see his son until they get me." He carries out his schome for some time, but bein* chas-d by both the American and Canadian police he at last only manages to escapo bv the Ihl ™i- a u+' i^ he • ssLsts hin > to elude the police, but bccommg a protege of the police post, she falls in love with the officer detailed for the convict's capture and unthinkingly gives the man awav The acting and staging of the piece are 'imaniticrnt, an-di there are many powerful situations. Included 111 the programme is another instalment of the fine serial "The lS;etdoctn?d Wife." '