PATHE PICTURES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13393, 29 May 1914, Page 4

PATHE PICTURES.

The audience was a large and entluisiastic one at His Majesty s Theatre Jast iright, and ' the new programme which 'Pathe Pictures introduced received a unanimously favorable verdict.- Much interest attached to .the appearance" bf tho " famous Vitagraph star ' feature', "Fruits of Vengeance, about which so much had bee.n m. film, land, ;T4hs >vonderfuj depiction of life iii/;a big circus fulfiUeU fe^pectatioiis. A .tender romaripef runs'* through 1 the eiig^bssii)g story, while 'a touch' of< tragedy comes. 'at. the close! Some remarkably ! sensational and realistic scenes are iiitrqdiic : ed, and tho acting and' mounting .throughout are hi the best Vitagraph style. As a nice foil to the big picture came "A Day Out with Gwendoline," a particularly eleven-, comedy,' which shows that a man who .waits for a lady while *.he is bargain-hunting requires 'to. have the patience of Jol^. The hdro m ; thai, film is' till impatience/ which increases with 7 - .thfe passing 1 hours,; and he finally breaks things and lands up of,;, the police station. The Thari-i houser Coiiip^ny scored : a distinct success wall 'a 'flue' 'coniedy-dra'niai.-'^The jEiead Waiter,'' m which, fun and sincerity alternate artistically. "Temples bf Karnak" made a' splendid sceiiicp&ubject, while the latest Budge*!.-' was followed with the closest, .atteptipn. "A/ Sorority Invi^tioii''' ! was th^fsom.^- 1 what/ ponderous -title of a"- mysterious play of, force and feeling, ' which- was; yo,ted t a really gqod drama.; Thegomedy gallery was. more ..tfra'rif usually. j^Lrabti've. and tlie theatre rang' with laughter while VOrily Orte^Shift M aiid '•Wanted' it Burglar -held, the 'screen. " This >firie •ill-round series will be repeated 'to-nigh^, will mal^e way .to-morrow for ail-. 6ther bright array of the latest success,qs, of' which' the' much-talked-of.'sufeijess, * 'One Hpur before Dawji , '•' . will be the outstaii(jiiig .a'ttraptje-n. .