PERMANENT PICTURES.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14338, 14 February 1917, Page 7

PERMANENT PICTURES.

There will again be a complete change of programme at the Empire Theatre tonight, when the star feature wiU be an Arabian Nights tale brought up to dato and 4>iveystoniscd." Mack Sennett, the originator of Keystones, vis now personally appearing in the Triangle comedies, togetner with Mabel Normand and Raymond Hitchcock. The last-named is one of the newest Triangle recruits from the American comedy stage. Mr Sennett and -Mabel act as host and hostess to a traveller fronaj India who brings back to America a work on magic and a collection 'of sacred snakes/ It can be -Imagined what turmoil is, caused in the hitherto peaceful household when a basketful of snakes break loose and take charge of the place. They are, however, under the guest's control, and in response to his whistling follow him to his room. A Brahmin who i s seeking to recover a lost scroll is mixed up in the proce idings. An interesting "cut-back .shows his theft of the scroll in an Indian temple and the danco of the Nautch girls. In the end, after some exciting bomb,-throwing and many funny moments, the scroll is restored, and all ends happily. This programme .also includes a very fine Vitagraph "JiXJGTt star drama. "Hi's Golden Grain," an interest subject, "How Flowers Breathe," cartoons, topicals, and scenes. Motueka' will be visited to-night, and Richmond to-morrow uUiht.