AMUSEMENTS.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13455, 29 April 1914, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

PERMANENT PICTURES.

j Another full house attended Hie Theatro Royal hi st night to_ witness tho great American drama. "Faithful to tlie End." Fov to-night rmoiher 'complete change is -rulwrlisivj. The st::r picture is a powerful Vitagraph draw.! entitled "Prince'of K\il:;' The l^.der of a band of smugglers. Prince Dtlamere, in need of more money to frnt«.nco his enterprises, proposer; to Josephine Chester, who refuses vim. Gcorgina Rivers, her sister, and wife of James Rivers, a prominent business man, lias a passion for gambling, and is heavily in debt. She. determines to offset her previous losces by a b?t on a hom> race, and-while inking on tho telephone to a -friendly bookmaker she is overheard by Prince Delainore, The horso loses and sli(- is in despair, and does not tell her husband. The Prince offers to help her, prof erring her a cheque largo enough to pay all _ her debts, bhe consents to Luke it. Josephine is sought by another wooer, Richard Trent, "whom she favours. Seeing this, the Prince .goes to her, and, showing her the cheque, which has been returned to him by tho bank, ho tolls her that unless she becomes-engaged to him within a week he will show the cheque to lir;v sisters..husbanu. ' liie picture goes on to depict the* phg'ic or the young ladies" Josephine at last accept© Trent. COUNTRY TOUR. , Motucka will be visited as usual tonight, when a strong programme will be screened.