AMUSEMENTS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13996, 28 January 1916, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

PERMANENT PICTUBES

i The Empire Theatre was- again well attended last evening, when "The Cinema Girl"" programme was "screened for the last time. To-night thero will be a complete change of bill, and a, special attraction will be presented in a .Nordisk sensational star feature- entitled "Children of the Circus,'-'- . featuring Mile. Baptista, .of the Olympia, London. This is the-stoiy oi ,~a, circus artist. Prank Marco, who discovers that his wife is unfaithful'to him and 'is", eyxcouraging the attentions. <^.Lieutenant' Richard Bryan. .. While-Rerf^rmiiig^ith his. .wife. Marco; . sees her m aj[aug sign als tocher lover, iind in his excitenjent he fires, arid only his own cbnscienc^cp.uld answer Ayhether the .shot •was.clirectecl at. his Ayife or whether his. ;usually. sure aim,was affected by excutemc'rit.',; H?e,;is acquitted by the jury. years elapse, and ]\;faroo is.nofe'a'rich ma.ii, and his' daughter Lilian has just finished her education at' a, lioai-ding school. She meets Lieutenant Bryan; iand, like her mother before her,;'falls: under his influence. Against her father's wishes the girl makes a sxiocessful debut at a circus. It is linen that Marco discovers who his daughter's lover is. In « violent scene tho lieutenant is^killed; and in a- few seconds Marco fes led away, leading.his daughter alono with her sorrow, realising, all her father will suffer, by his act of saving her from {the snare' of a villain. -The' supportingj items- •'Vjll be of an interesting order, including; a Vitagnaph comedy, "The Peacemaker," a topical film of a Zeppelin raid on Paris, ana the latest Pathfe Gazette. t. ■:.. Motueka will be .visited on Saturday, ffhen this "prbgramme "vyill be screened