AMUSEMENTS.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13735, 29 May 1913, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL PERMANENT

PICTURES

The change of programme presented at the Theatre Royal last night.attract^ cd.a full house, the star item ,f'.Behind the Mask" being received with uiistmt--led applause. The next best. item supporting the star was an excellent drama entitled "The Higher Mercy." The story tells how, no matter how absorbed with affairs of State, Abraham Lincoln is always ready to give audience to his little son, Tod. Little Tod is saved from 'drowning by a young fellow named Tom Brinton. Brinton s mother urges her son to join the Union army. Ojii the battlefield his natural fear takes ■'possession of him, and ho floes in terror when he hears the,cannon roar. • His colonel tolls him to carry a message to the commanding officer in the- front ranks of the fighting regiment, but he determines to desert. He changes his uniform for a dead Confederate's and continues his flight. Ho is tried for desertion, and sentenced to be shot. Hi s mother intercedes for him with the President. While ho is meditating over the matter, an officer tells him that young Brinton has died in prison from heart failure, so President 'Lincoln tells her that a higher mercy than his- has been shown her son.1 The. supporting items wora all of a very interesting nature, and included the "following : "Pathe's Latest Australian Gazette" ; "Brothers in Arms,'' "Monkey Trapping," 'Auckland Weekly News," "Pas Muliceni," and "A Mixed Affair," comics. Patrons are reminded that Saturday next is th© last night of the present coupon competition. Reserved seats may be obtained at Ja'ckson's. COUNTRY TOUR. The Permanent Pictures will pay their usual visit to Takaka on Saturday pre-sonting the fa-Lowing programme:— "Australian Gazette," "Secret of Miser's Cave," "Forest of Fontainbleau," "Justice of the Desert," "Home Late," "Manufacturing Marine Motors,',' "Lodgings for'tho Night," "Luck of Battle," "Dupin goes Mountaineering" etc.