AMUSEMENTS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14147, 26 July 1916, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

PERMANENT PICTURES.

. A large audience was present at the Empire Theatre' last evening, wiion a very fine programme was screened. To-night the principal feature of the entertainment "will be a Vitagraph star drama entitled "One Perlonnance Only." • -This is nin exciting detective^ sWy. Dwight Oi-.'no, a <;lever jewel] thief, dotermine's to obtain posse^sKm of a valuable pearl necklace worn" by Mrs Heldmeyer, a wealthy jeweller's wife. Orme persuades Valdo, an actor and impersonator, to assist hi:u by disguising himself as Ileldmayer. ,Jack Cheney, a detective, ±s called into tlie case, and in turn' makes up as Heldmayer. By the aid ofelectrical effects he "terrifies Valdo till lie confesses, implicating Orme. The supporting items will be entirely r.ew films., fnd will include a "Flying A" drama "One Woman's Way," several comedies, & fine scenic film of Holland, and the latest Path© Gazette. Motueka will be visiiofl to-night, and Richmond on Thursday.