ENTERTAINMENTS

Southland Times, Issue 17498, 29 April 1915, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

TTLLKRS’ pictures. To-night :it the SScalandia Hall the third series of “The Adventures of Kathleen” will he screened under the title of "In the Temple of the Lion.” This ia stated to he more sensational than either of the other two parts. After the American engineer blew up the amphitheatre with his land mine, savins; Kathleen front the lions, he drugged her to a secluded spot, where Ihirnhaj and Pundita were waiting with elephants. Then follows a flight through the jungle, Kathleen’s elephant runs away, and is soon lost in-the recesses of the forest. hhunlly the weary elephant halts at the Rato of a city, and Kathleen finds herself a strait tier captive. Kathleen has passed safely through many da lifters, but. not in Iter wildest momonis has she imugined the fearful adventures that overtake her in her new snrroumiings; her life is hanging hy a thread. Without question this series of adventures that Kathleen is now bring forced into are almost hrea 1 h-stopping- in intensity. The supponing pictures arc “A Believer in Dreams." a story constructed on romantic lines, in which a dream plays an important part in rectifying a mistake in a. love affair; ’’Helen’s Sacrifice” (drama,). "Tiie Australian Gazette,” "Ilis Suicide” (comedy). “The Comediennes Strategy,” and “How Heroes are Made" (Keystone comedy >. THE LYCEUM. Tito current programme at the Lyceum should attract exece Ilent patronage. “Harbour Lights." a melodrama, made familiar to playgoers by Mr Bland Holt about 2') years ago, heads the new programme to be shown to-night. The characters are ld?na -Nelson, daughter of Captain Nelson; Dora Vane, his foster daughter; Krank Morland. squire of Kecl- | clifCe: Lieutenant David Kingsley. R.N., | and Mark llelston. a young fisherman, j The squire endeavours to win Lena, who is secretly in love with her unscrupulous admirer. Site forgets Mark. who is I fondly attached to her. and he vows to i he avenged upon I-'rank Morland. Nicholas Morland. cousin of the squire. Is dls- ' missed from the navy, and it is mainly ' owing to Lieutenant Kingsley’s evidence , that he is court-martialled. Nicholas is j determined to be revenged upon Kingsley. and obtains an engagement with his cousin, the squire, as his steward. He gets the squire to write a letter to Dora, ; who is betrothed to Kingsley, luring her ;to the squire’s house. Lena, who lias been betrayed by the squire, also goes to the house on the same evening to demand satisfaction. Nicholas tells Kingsley that if ho goes to the squire’s house ; he will see his fiancee keeping a secret appointment with the squire. Helston i follows Lena to the squire’s home, and ! there a storm scene ensues. Kingsley I realises that his fiancee lias been tricked 1 into the visit, and he and Dora leave the I place. Mark Hedston then denounces the squire and shoots him. Mark’s mother, half demented, tries to kill Lena, who is the sole witness of her son’s crime, but Lena is rescued by Kingsley, and Mark, remorseful, writes a full confession, and commits suicide. The auxiliary items will include "The Knd of the Umbrella” (being the seventh of the, Dolly of the Dalies series). BOIMmTaK PIGTURK PALACE. Tiie management of the Popular Picture Palace announce their intention to screen the fourteenth instalment of the story of the popular adventuress, “Lucille Love" this evening. After this chapter there will remain only one series before tiie enthralling story comes to its conclusion, a conclusion that will startle everyone who iias followed the story from its inception. In the series to he screened this evening the stirring events of the final chapter are foreshadowed. Indeed the story takes an unexpected turn leading to a climax which will justify the unequalled popularity of the Oig serial. Added to this the programme will be further distinguished by a two-reel biograph drama, wherein is told a story of homo life calculated to touch any heart. The supporting programme is selected with due regard to public preference, topical, scenic, comedy and dramatic numbers being represented in admirable proportion. .