AMUSEMENTS.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12750, 23 March 1910, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

ROYAL STANDARD PICTURES. The final screening of the current bi-weekly programme -of pictures at the Druids 1 Hall was displayed to a large aud highly appreciative audience last night, meeting with special favour. A new programme Las been arranged for to-night, the principal numbers being "Napoleon and Princess -Hatzfeld," a very finely staged historical film, illustrating an authentic incident of Buonaparte's career. It opens with Napoleon victorious from the -battle of Jena, at the gate of Berlin. The Prince of Hatzfeld receives from King Frederick William, who has retired to Konigsberg, the charge of the temporary governorship of Berlin. Napoleon takes possession of Berlin. Amongst the confiscated letter post, Napoleon finds a_ letter from Prince Hatzfeld to his king. Napoleon orders the immediate trial and' shooting of the Prince on the charge of spying and high treason. General Rapp thinks it best to' temporise, and deposits the order of condenny»tion on the Emperor's, own table. One of the' scenes is . the drawing room of the Empress , Josephine at Paris. "Orawanda," is an. Indian picture that deals, with early eo-.-lonial days. "The Little Princes in the Tower," a historical and dramatic murder, in the Tower, with the tragic end of Richard 111., ''The Millstone Quarry," and a mimber of others.