ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 21, 19 July 1911, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

ROYAL PICTURES. I In response to numerous requests Messrs. Crust and Gjedsted will exhibit "A Tale of Two Cities" again to-night for the last time. The usual bi-weekly change of programme will also be presented to-night, and includes a beautiful colored film of New Zealand Passes, and "Hunting the Giraffe," by Pa the Frercs, also Pathe's Australian Gazette, "The Blackmailer," "Animated Armchair" and a host of others. To-morrow "A Tale of Two Cities" will be replaced by an additional lot of new pictures. AT WAITARA. Whilst the theatre was occupied by the Marlow Company last night Messrs. Crust and Gjedsted took the opportunity of extending their business by presenting the Royal Pictures to the picturelovers of Waitara. The house that greeted them was one of the largest ever seen at St. John's Hall, and the excellent programme of pictures, being pcrjectly projected, was received with great enthusiasm. SAUNDERS' BIOGRAPH PICTURES. Whitcley Hall was again well filled last night, when the current programme was repeated for the last time. To-night a complete change of programme will be screened, including a cinematograph production of Dickens' well-known novel, "A Tale of Two Cities." The programme throughout is bristling with star pictures, including "The Vicar of Wakefield," Queen Victoria Memorial," "Queen for a Day," "Hat Making in Java," "The Big Scoop," "A Trio of Acrobats," "Enemy of the Dust," and 'Tilly's Party." The new programme is well diversified, as a glance through the items will prove. Topical, scenic, dramatic, romantic, educational and refined comic items all find a place on the list. This- series will be on view to-night, Thursday and Friday.

"THK BAD GIRL OF THE FAMILY." Tin- Theatre Royal was well filled last nighi. Then "The Bad Girl of the Family" whs interpreted by Mr. Geo. Marlow's company. The plot bristles with sensationalism. It is above the ordinary melodramatic variety of play so familiar to theatregoers. Many of the situations appeal forcibly. Particularly is this the case in the bedroom scene, where Gladys teaches Bess how to pray, and so lifts her again on to the upward path. The part of Bess Moore, "The Bad Girl of the Family," is taken by Miss Ada Guildford, who gives a most realistic personation of the betrayed girl. She is especially excellent in the scene where she marries her betrayer in place of the bride he expected, and also where she assists her friend to again overthrow his machinations. Miss Adele Kelly, as Gladys Erskine, the girl that Harry wanted to marry, appealed very much. Her pathetic appeals to her father, and her strength of purpose in remaining true to her lover in spite of all, showed her to possess high histrionic ability. Miss Ina Alston, as Fanny Brown, a vivacious little girl employed at Berry and Robertson's, amused much with her love-making, and it was not overdone. Mr. Herbert J. Bentley, as Lieut. Marsh, R.N., lover of Gladys, who was under sentence of death for the suppesed murder of her father, had a very difficult role, which he, however, capably filled As Harry Gordon, a villain of the melodramatic type, who would stop at nothing to gain his ends, Mr. Bert Linden was happily placed. That splendid stock actor, Mr. C. R. Stanford, was the plausible Barry Gordon, money-lender, to the We. Mr. T. E. Tilton enacted Jerry Holmes, ne'er-do-well, often in prison, but nevertheless an important item in removing the stigma of murder from Lieut. R. Marsh. Mr. Tom Curran, as Danny, provided some of the humor. As a lady in harem Bkirfcs at Berry and Robertson's, in the dormitory scene, he was excruciatingly funny. The various minor parts were also well sustained The staging was quite up to the reputation of the company. i