OPERA HOUSE PICTURES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13299, 7 February 1914, Page 4

OPERA HOUSE PICTURES.

To-night will witness a complete change of pictures at the Opera Honse. Everyone should be highly pleased 'With the choice. of subjects'; they are excep-tionally*-well varied^ and include some fine topical numbers!" Tlie ' first., Hayward's highly commended topical him, "Strike Scenes m Wellington," features interesting incidents of the recent industrial upheaval. The popular pictorial magazine, "P,athe Gazette," is full of special illustrations of special merit. A very beautiful Pathe-colored scenic, "Tivoli and its Cascades," is one of the finest water studios ever produced, m a film. Vitagraph's contribution to the comic section of the bill is "Troublesome Daughters." The star feature, well 'off the beaten track, is "The Curse df the Clolden. Hand." This is , oris, of the Vitagraph Company's masterpieces. Wolf, Salzman, a Russian peasant, leaves his wife and son with his parents and goes to America, to seek a fortune. He finds work m a clothing, factory, and soon holds the position of chief designer for his firm. At first he writes regularly, to bis wife, but becoming obsessed with "his plans fo£.. success, ceases to write at; all. His* wife is m despair. He," meets Jacob Morgenstern, who introduces 'him. to his daughter Rebecca, with whom he falls m love. Wolf de i cides to f divorce his wife. The only pangs of '-remorse he suffers come at the thought of his little .son m Russia. Sarah, in -Russia, decides tO go^ to America to seek her husband. . Wolf, enters into partnership with Morgenstern, and .immediately the fortunes .of tlie firm shaftr a ehahge : for the better. Sarah and her son meanwhile have landed arid sought for Wolf, wlio has changed his name- to of Victor Selz. Their money, is soon exhausted, and both secure employment m Morgehstern's factory. Having secured 'his. divorce, "Wolf determines to propose "to Miss Morgen--Bterni' r He writes a letter and proposes to Send her a bouquet by one of the errand boys. In response to his call, Alex , enters. He recognises his dialect, jpd.is filled with remorse, and becom-ing-reconciled to them, begs for forgiveness. : The divorce is annulled, and Sarah arid Alex proudly- acknowledged. The programme .concludes with a. Keystone comedy, ""Mother's Boy," claimed to'^be 'as laughable as "'Tlie Riot." This series will be screened for two nights only-