AMUSEMENTS.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13491, 10 June 1914, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

PERMANENT PICTURES.

A large and enthusiastic audience greeted the excellent change ■screened" at the Theatre Royal last evening. Tonight a, huge dramatic masterpiece by tho A.B. Company entitled "In tho\ Bishop's Carriage" will be presented, featuring "Mary Pickford" at her best in a. brilliant role. It was not altogether Nance Old en's fault that she was an inmate of a charity home, neither was she to blame i'or being forced to escape. . Falsely accused of theft and crueJly punished, she decided to rid herself for ever from the matron's persecution.1 Pursued by the police, she takes refuge in a room of Tom Dorgan, th© crook, where- later lie finds her. Both refugees of a doubtful justice, their common lot inspires them to establish a partnership in crime. After a daring theft of jewels Nance eludes the police by jumping into the Bishop's carriage. Finally Nance is again rescued from the police by the intervention of Obcrmuller, a theatrical manager, who is impressed with her mimic talent, and offers her a position and a chance to travel a straight road. Tom I is arrested, and Nance and Obcrmuller fall in love, and she obtains fame and fortune as an actress. Tom escapes, and returns to claim her, but is defeated by Oberjnuller. Once more she steals an illegal contract from a treatricai syndicate that is attempting to crush Obermuller. She- then marries him, and drinks the sweets of a righteous existence. COUNTRY TOUR. Mobueka will be visited as usual tonight, and Richmond to-morrow, \yhen a thrilling Selig masterpiece entitled "A.mid Raging Beasts," will be screened- __ u„,