ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 295, 6 May 1913, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE EMPIRE THEATRE. "The Daughter of the Slums" and full supporting programme will be on view to-night for the last occasion. Commencing to-morrow and continuing Thursday and Friday the Empire management (by special arrangements with the New . Zealand Pictures Supplies Company) will | present the record masterpiece by the ! famous Edison Company "Foul Play," ' j adapted from the well-known novel by '. j Charles Readc.. The whole of the story \ is told, from the dissipations of the college youth to his first crime and detec- ! tion.* The scenes portraying ;he c*st--1 aways on the island are i&!*h»illv •"». ' and shown without a smudjje or flic-lrtr ' of any kind. All through this tilnv (.Til ' it is a long one) is craj>>a»d with ininteresting and exciting incidents, and it is one of the best things in its pirueus lar line that has been presented 'o picf ture goers in New Zealand. Special in--1 terest is drawn to the picture by the 8 "engagement of the popular elocutionist, • Mr. Alfred Boothman, who will describe ? in detail the story as the Bcencs are thrown on the screen. The prices of «d- ---. mission during the screening of this i' picture will be Dress Circle 25., all down- . stairs Is. I THEATRE ROYAL PICTURES. „' The new programme shown at the a Royal last night was rightly advertised as "A big programme of Specialties." j Probably the most "special" item, was the Vitagraph drama "The Model for ~ St. John." The story concerns Mon- „ eieur Werner, who has been. commis--0 sioned.by>ona. of the great byways.for. the face divine as a model for the sacred * subject. He is almost in despair whea e his son returns from college. He rccog- !" nises in the boy attributes"for the painte ing, and soon "the picture is completed. '> Werner's son dissipates his time and sube stance in riotious living. Many years 0 the artist is asked to paint the worst '* tvpe of'satanic depravity and seeks for 8 his model among the outcast and the' poor. The painting is completed, the » artist leaves the room, and the poor sot !• i shuffles toward the canvas, looks on the 1.1 portraval of his features and is struck 1. with horror. At this moment, his eyes o light on the painting of St. John, and, ?- beating his breast in terror, he cries. "I :s posed for that picture of St. John the e. Divine." Tn his delirium the wretched '■' sot falls lifeless at his father's feet, n The supporting items are all of a flrstie class order, including the latest Pathe »' Gazette and a fine range of dramatic rs and comedv subjects.