ENTERTAINMENTS

Southland Times, Issue 17734, 11 August 1917, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

ALBION THEATRE. I The Albion was favoured with. a good house last night to witness the final screening of the present programme, “The Combat.” To-day at 1.30 an entire change ,will be presented, including “The Foundling,” and depicts that idol of kinematography, Mary Pickford, in a role in which she is seen at her best, and that is saying a good deal. Also Charlie Chaplin in “The Face on the Bar Room Floor,” “Pathe Gazette,” “Spike’s Busy Bike” (comedy). POPULAR PICTURE PALACE. A powerful emotional drama, “The Power of Decision,” with Frances Nelson in the leading role, is the star feature of the new programme to be screened to-day and tonight. The story is a most absorbing one, and is unfolded on the screen in Metro’s best style. Some excellent supports include the Co-Operative Budget, and a sidesplitting comedy “Sticky Fingers.” The management announce for Wednesday next, the first appearance of the great morality play ever shown on the screen, “Ignorance.” The picture is presented with the co-opera-tion of “The Young Women’s Protective League, and is a strong factor in support of moral reform. The picture is for people of understanding, and no one under the age of 16 will be admitted. GRAND THEATRE. “INTOLERANCE”—A SUPERLATIVE PICTURE. D. W. Griffths’ latest spectacle “Intolerance,” a story of “Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages,” will open at the Grand Theatre on Monday evening under the management of J. C. Williamson, Ltd. “Intolerance” shows life's mighty drama, flown the centuries, seen as from a pinnacle in one sweeping glance. The spectacle shows four separate and distinct stories. One is a modern talc of life in a western city; another shows life in Jcjisalem and other parts of Judea in days when the Mazarene came out of Galilee. The third theme deals with the time of Charles IX and Catherine do Medici, when the Huguenots were massacred in medieval Paris, and the most striking of all the stories is the one of Baity lon the Magnificent in the days when Belshazzar was conquered by Cyrus the Great, and the wonder city of the ancient world was overthrown. Before you are able to grow tired of one period, you swing into another, from Babylon to Judea, back to the present and then to medieval France, until in the end they blend in one splendid paean of humanity. Thrills follow thrills, the past is re-created and through all runs the truest lesson that history teaches, that love is more than all, that freedom of thought and action should never be shackled, and that the world was made for love and laughter and happiness. These wonderful scenes ore illuminated anti interpreted by a symphonic score which will be played by an orchestra of twentyfive. Matinees will also be given on Tuesday and Wednesday at 2 p.m. The reserves are at the Bristol. “Intolerance” will be shown here on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday only.