ENTERTAINMENTS

Southland Times, Issue 17658, 16 February 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

POPULAR PICTURE PALACE. Tiu r* vas a capital attendance at the Popular last night when the new programme was again well received. “Russia’s Mighty Army" was watched with intense interest, and on several occasions burst'- of hearty applause greeted this magnificent spectacle. “A Heart of Iron" also won well merited interest. The supporting subjects are on a level with the star subjects. THE NIGGER. For to-morrow’s bi-weekly change, the management announce a remarkable six reel photo play "The Nigger." This picture has been the cause of much discussion and controversy in America, and has given students of racial problems much food for serious thought. In the days of slavery (the period in which the prologue of this play opens), men and women were sold like cattle; mothers and babes were separated, and husbands and wives were torn apart, and the brutality and callousness of the slave masters and owners resulted in the intermingling of the blood of the two races. “The Nigger” in all its dramatically powerful, and at times lurid, situations proves conclusively that the gulf which exists between the two races can never be spanned, and that impure heredity claims its ’. ictims as surely as the great reaper—l v ith. The play will be screened twicepc \h evening and patrons are advised to tie .-arly, as big houses are assured, numerous applications having beer, made for seats. GRAND THEATRE, LAST NIGHT OF "MY OLD DUTCH.” That unprecedented film success "My Old Dutch,” which would rank as a masterpiece if its claim to the title rested rolely on the wonderful acting of Albert Chevalier and Miss Florence Turner, has packed the popular Grand Theatre to overflowing during the past two evenings, and is sure to repeat the process on the occasion of its final screening to-night. "VALLEY OF LOST HOPE." To-morrow’s big star will be another of those great star attractions now intimately associated with this Theatre. "The Valley of Lost Hope," in 4000 ft of film is a virile red-blooded romance of mining camps in the golden days of “’4O”, when men and women hunted the gulches and valleys in the all-absorbing. search for gold. Some made fortunes in a night and dissipated , them almost as speedily. Less fortu-' nato ones toiled for years in vain, and then just as luck smiled upon them the human parasite, who abounded in “the roaring days.” cheated, fought or murdered them to get possession of their gold. A remarkable feature of the production is a terrific railway smash, described as surpassing anything of the kind previously evolved from the brain of any producer. This effect, which positively thrills spectators cost £SOOO to produce. Other subjects will be "Boots not Arf” (comedy), “Cliffs and Caves of Flamhorongh Heads” (scenic). “Australian Gazette and Cartoons, "Queen of tho Band” (drama), "The Highwayman" (Vita Comedy). MISS DOROTHEA SPINNEY. Tiir Y.M.C.A. Gymnasium Hall was wel! filled last evening, when Miss Dorothea Spinney gave the last performance of her season. A complete change in the type ol play was made, -last night’s performance comprising an Irish play, a Pierrot play and a series of poses representing bowers. In tho Irish play “The Tra\ oiling Man,” a piece with plenty of broaci humour, Miss Spinney was excellent.