OPERA HOUSE PICTURES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13430, 11 July 1914, Page 4

OPERA HOUSE PICTURES.

It- is a long' time isince any picture has been shown. v in_ Ciisborne.ieutui.ng the .most popular acti«si4, ' r \liss N'ielse'n. To-night there will' be an op-' poilunity. fur everyone to ,ste her iy "Asjta; JVieken> Suffragette." This iinfe comedy-drama, is 370u feet long. Asta; Panbournc returns homo alter two y< aiV 'residence ; with a matfle'd' siafcoi-, where her ifnsophisticated nature, has rb^ei) completely modified by ebntaot with the world, and shi; has become a> la^hionable yoiui{j iady. Oh her journey home Asta,' liad met a. handsome man with whom she had fallen rii love. lier "efforts' to .■discover his identity, wtere uriaVailiiig. Asta's mother is ■nn ardent su'tfrageUe'. At first Asia; views lier mother's militancy with indifference' but scon davelops. au enthusiasm thiit surpasses that of her 'mothe-v. Asta bocomes an acknowledged leader, and .is i'oVemost m \vin<^ow-smaiiliing. In prison she goes on hvmger, strike. A woman's right* • bill before- "Parliament dot's not meet, wit h the- approval of the Premier, i'i&i'd ' Ascue. Violet W'right, an old sweetheart of his,^ lhas. JaOtne •inprimiiiaii-•ij%-.-tetters whioli slie " tluie-ateus to sell to t'he. Pahbournes, and so i % uin the l'remier's reputation. Lord Asoue defies her. A more 'than usually mad schonle is decided upon, having for its object the blowing up of the Premier's residence. Asta is ■• chosen to undertake the mission, and 'hides the bomb iv i'lra. study. She lias no sooner hid Sen the' bomb than tlie Premier" appears. Asta' is ivstoni&hed to find that lie "is. the man of lier dreams. . The recognition is mutual, but stern duty intervenes, and A#ta tells, the Premier of the letters m her poSso'sMpn. The Premier declines to be, either bribed or forced. She : tries unsucce^sfiilly to find an oppoVtunit/y to reiiiove the bomb. She manages to (nit-eV tlie mansion as tlie Cabinet disperses, but too late to' a-Vert ( 'dihaster. The bomb explodes, and does enormous damage, but no lives are lost, and the Premier tactfully 1 'saves Asta fuorit th-e---consequences A df ..'hoi* ■ crime by inti'bducing Iver lo his astonished colleagues as his future wife. This is a phoio play well worth seeing. '.'Life m. Hongkong" is a, splendid scenic study, produced by the /Vitagi-aph. Co. "Tnaclung his Wife a Lesson," is an Edison mitthmaker, and depicts many funny situations. I The i >pular pictorial magazine, "Pathe

Gazette" is full ot\ views, from abroad. A touching and tender drama, "H<;io and his Blind Master," is a splendidly reduced . story, of a man and his <lo;j. The -remainder of this series is of a .high . order. Patrons would ', do wo 11 to book their seats- early. .. . .•