OPERA HOUSE PICTURES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13291, 29 January 1914, Page 5

OPERA HOUSE PICTURES.

There was a large audience at the Opera House last evening to witness the fine programme now being offered by tlu> Opera Hortfss management. Variety is the keynote of • this • well-balanced series. Tive programme opens with the latest edition. of the New Zealand Animated News,-, with all the very latest news of the Dominion. A very clever Oaumont comedy is "Leonco "and his Guardian."- The* guardian tries to make Leonco do rather more than this young nn\n is capable of. A natural history subject that found much favor is "Crayfish." Tlie interesting -film depicts the daily lifo and habits of this creature. The Vitagraph players contribute an absorbing drama, "The Unwritten Chap ter." The acting of this picture! is ad mii-able and the photography beautiful. After a lon/t discussion with Phillip Mowbray concerning their next novel, Ruth Sterling makes a lOCO-ddllar wager that within amontli she will have found a now sensation. She goes to a, sinali fishing village m Maine, and stays at the house of one of the coastguards; David Skelton, and his mother*. David falls iti love with lier. In order to hasten his declaration of love, Ruth ono day pretends to sprain her /ankle, and allows him to carry her to the house. The next -day she receives a telegram from Phillip saying that tfic month is up. She asks him- to nieet her at dinner next day. David, watching through the window of his house, sees her meet Phillip and hears her tell him of how she foiled the coastguard into loving her. He enters the room and denounces her as a false and heartless woman. When Ruth sees David, she realises that, m ppite o,f the way m which «ho has Used him, she really loves lmn. "Latest m Life-saving is a Keystone comedy, and drew roars of laughter last evening. "A Trip on the Danube" is one of the most beautiful and instructive scenic subjects aliowu hero for a lon^f time, the sunset scenes being remarklable. The star featuro , of the programme, is a huge 35COft detectivo story, entitled "The Black Circle." Tliis film was frequently applauded while being screened, .aud at. the. finish there wa.3 a loud outburst. The story deals witli a. notoriojjs .band of criminals and a civilian who has' been drawn Into their meshes. ; The p'rrtgramme* finishes with a Kci-eaminar comic, V'TliO; End "of the World." This 'highly attractive series wifl be. screened for • the lasb itujie this evening^ 'there- being a complete change to-morrow.

FOXTON, tliis day.