AMUSEMENTS.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13598, 7 October 1914, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

PERMANENT PIOTCBES

A good house at the Theatre R*>yal witnessed the new programme last night, and. judging by the continuous applause, the pictures'met with general approval. Another complete change will bo screened to r night. The star picture, entitled "Perils' of the White Light," 2oooft long, by the well-known Ivalem Company, is spoken of as a remarkable and extremely interesting drama, depicting sensational happenings in the career of an actress. _Another picture which may be specially mentioned is an Edison drama, "A Royal Romance." The t story runs as follows :—A young musician was very ill. That he might at least live long enough to finish an opera, the composing of which had robbed him of health and strength, his doctor ordered him lo leave- his labours in the city and to spend a month in the mountains. So the young musician went to the inn of the Black. Eagle in the heart of the Alps, and drew the keen 3 life-giving mountain air into his wasted lungs. To the inn, there- came one day a strangely beautiful girl, accompanied by several attendants. Th© musician fell madly in love with her. One night, while he played a sorrowful little song on his vioiin beneath her window, sh© came out on the balcony and spoke to him. After that he walked with her often m the gardens, dreamily content to listen to the melting wonder of her voic©, and watch the mountain winds playing with rebellious tendrils of her hair. And then she went away, and the musician learned that she was none other than the Princess Olga Victoria, soon to wed Prince Frederick of Lothringen. The musician returned to the city with his heart turaed to lead, and learned that he had been chosen to write the grand march for the wedding of the princess. He wrote it—and died, and the Princess on her way to the altar, trembled and grew white, for it seemed to her that in the solemn triumphal music she ■ heard a voice- filled with deadly pain } calling to her—the voice of the only | man she ever had loved or could i love.