AMUSEMENTS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14128, 3 July 1916, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

PERMANENT PICTURES."

"The' Carpet from Baghdad" was'the star item in Saturday's programme at the Empire Theatre. A picturing: of the well-known novel .of the same I name 'by Harold McGratii, the subject | i-s splendidly treated by the famous I Selig Company, who give- the true j Oriental atmosphere to the setting of the play, the scenes, at Sheppard's Hotel at Cairo being particularly good. This play will be repeated to-night for , the last time. To-morrow the management will screen one of America's greatost photo, plays, entitled "The Nigger," in which William Farnum lias the part of Philip Morrow. In America this production has caused a great deal of controversy, and has given students of racial and social problems much food for thought, r The magnitude of the production may be.gauged by the fact that over 5000 people took part in the play, at a total cost of production of £50,000, aud in one week 140,000 people witnessed the performances at the New York Hippodrome, the largest picture. theatre in the world. The box plan is now open at the Empire Theatre, prices being an usual.