AMUSEMENTS.

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AMUSEMENTS.

PERMANENT PICTURES:

. At the. Theatre Royal last eyenm"g.'a weH satisfied audience' Witnessed ..the screening of "Ashes," and its exeqp: tionally strong supporting programme, including topical, dramatic, scenic, vaudeville, and comedy items of unusual interest. To-night etill another change will be submitted, featuring Selig's great dramatic masterpiece "Wahroa, the Child of the Jungle." "Mother Love" might have ben the title of this picture, for it is on this emotion that the story hinges. Miss Eyton makes of "Wamba" a most likeable character, and shows coficlusively the little brown woman of the jungle with all the passion of a tigress, and the courage of an Amazon! She possesses a love for her baby that nothing can overwhelm or quench, and which she lavishes on a little girl placed in her charge after her own little one has died. This m-tle white girl, most capably .played by "Baby" Wade, causes the real thrill of the film in the second part, when she seeks refuge in a hollow log, and is pursued by ' a huge man-bating lion. Other films are: —"The River Cobra" (Jamaica); "The Runaways," a drama by the A.K. I company, beautifully coloured, and sure Ito please; "Jura" (an excursion to the Alps) a Pathe colour scenic; "Tho Evil Thereof," Edison drama; "Bunny's Dip into1 - Society^" yitagraph comedy; "Uses of* Dynamite," a Vito educational; "Simple Simon's Disappearance," comic; and "Pathe's English Gazette," a welcome" arrival bythe- last European mail. ■ *