PATHE PICTURES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13373, 6 May 1914, Page 4

PATHE PICTURES.

■Picture patrons, will relish the bright irray wf. new ,, films wliioh the Pathe J*i ct tiro management >vil l' introduce at His Majesty's Theatre'' this evening.'AttHe*fading of lhe ; list- -will come ;a .powerful -2/OQPib ..tlrania-. by _..the Lubin .Company, eiititlqcl : "A Son of hip (Father ,' ; wluch! preaclu''s> a strong eermon against the' -insidious vice of gambling. The .-story. tells how a gambler leavesi his wife,, alter 1 ' settling a sum of money upon his infant son. Tlic man loUovr-a his- passion fo.r gambling, and eventually winds up: by ruiuiing • a gambling* den r The; son grows to manhood, but has. unfortunately,, inherited ,his falherVviee. One night, not knowing thnt the keeper of the saloon is his , father, the young fellow enters the den. and is' soon one of the most reckless, players of •thrtn all. It ends up m the father engaging the sou m business.' A notorious crook falsely- accuses the son of cheating, and m the trouble which follows the lad is seriously wounded. H« tells his father to send word .to his mother, and when the father -learn* the identity of,tluH>py he is filled with re-, raorse. IJe spl^s out the * gambliixg"joint." and eventually, away back m thp East. the. family are happily reunited t. , "A Homespnn Tragedy" 'js a cleverly-conceived story by the . Vita;graph players, which shoAvs. the danger■pf December ■matdng'. with May. >• A ■yoiing step-mother uses hey- good influences to restrain the wild excesses of hei* stepson,, who has long been motlierla£j3i .'The elderly husbknd becomes bittecly jealous, and at last /orders his son •fpQm :home.:, -In.: a -.-reckless state, the Jad makes hi^ way to a ta-Vern,'. gamble? gets mixed tin m a brawl, and croons the night's folly by shooting the > keeper -of the friloori dead;'. - Q vercome'' with.W'ror y he flees tbhisi.stepimother.. wl\oi. tries' to shield ■him, übitt-:. the olnha."nv wyoutn ;ds Jehot 'dead »by t^s, .sheriff's. .T>osse v ; while . '.attempting . . . to •escaiie. .' "Aisswir's Dtetiin" is a- ; th^illinjQ f > •stejryof a lady- lioii-tanier, which :cont.rins many stroncf dramatic situations. The Vita#raph -;Comp{<Tiy will ,suppl.yt.a cnpital vaudeville turn, "The/ "Ral)v Rlephant,'' while the A. TV. nlav.erßjvA^iH bbseen at ,their besfcin "Suiride.Pflct," a merry comedy. Tjovevw»of heaotifiil FC*lnerv will revel m. r'.'The." Rlr»p6«' of. Mouctspw." whife' the latest ''Warwick rhroni-^le'.'./JAvill ibe hniled with sf»H?fap♦■•■'Mi tor its waiiv. inlerdstii)(> tiVbits- of Hrjrne happnuinos: "Brushmakincr"- i« t valusblft odu^a'tianal'' /suhject. • ;j>nd remainii)«r subjectfi' m tin's artistic fi'ovies ire »1I uj}?-to gUndarcl'.' ' "