THEATRE ROYAL PERMANENT PICTURES.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13645, 10 February 1913, Page 7

THEATRE ROYAL PERMANENT PICTURES.

At tho matinee performance on Saturday a large audience of children were present at the Theatre Royal, and in tho evening a large attendance of adults. A capital programnio was presented, the hcadlincr heing the Bison Company's feature, '.'The Vengeance of Fate," or "The Roaring pays of '49," Mhieh proved exceptionally exciting, and typical of Indian life in the Far West.' A brief synopsis appealed in our last issue. ■ /'The Lost Necklace," b}f the A.K. Company, is a" drama 837 feet in Length. "Ethel Manton has a string of fine"ucarls given to her on her seventeenth birthday. She dreams of them, and that a burglar is robbing her of th-ein, and in h^er sleep-she- hides them in the hollow trunk of an old tree. Next morning she discovers that the jewels have disappeared/ Mary, the maid, remembers that a laundress who called at-the- moment the pearls _ were put ■away,'.saw and openly admired them. Tho "police arrest this woman. Her son i« in sore straits, since [his mother, has supported him. A milkman, however, gives him work, and it happens that ono of. the houses on .his round is Mr. Manton's. Ouo morning tho boy is astonished to see a white-robed figure walking in her sleep. She. go€« to an old tree trunk, and takes" the string of pearls out of the hollow. The boy arouses tho household, and the girl is gently awakened. The mystery of tho 'lost jewels is explained to her, and in a .few hours' time the laundress is liberated. Tho other items on the programme were, all of an interesting nature, and will be shown again to-night and to-morrow. On Wednesday another change will lx> given, and on Thursday :tlro'star dram a .: (3,000 feet) "Tho Gold-c-n Cage," will'be screened for one night only.