ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143647, 15 November 1911, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ROYAL PICTURES AND ORCHESTRA. A large and appreciative audience attended the Theatre Royal last evening, when Saturday’s fine programme was repeated for the last time. To-night an exceptionally interesting selection of pictures will be presented, which includes a scenic film of Rome, showing its monuments and cascades. Another scenic full of interest is “Fishing under ice on Lake Balaton, Hungary.” “Grecian Games,” by the Alberto Troupe, is a gorgeously coloured Pathe acrobatic production, showing some marvellous feats by these beautiful sisters. Tho dramas to bo presented are: “An Episode in 1812,” “A Double Elopement,” and “Aukl Robin Gray,” a simple idyll of Scottish life, adapted from tho wellknown poem, and reproduced by the Vitagraph Company, and is one of this well-known firm’s latest productions. The comic element will bo found in “Disturbing Elements,” “Lovo in “Quarantine,” “Jealous Jake,” and “Mrs. Cannon is warm.” In addition to the above tho. splendid picture of New Plymouth and its beautiful surroundings will bo screened to-night for tho last time. SAUNDERS’ BIOGRAPH PICTURES. An entirely new selection of pictures will bo on view at Whiteloy Hall Tonight. Tho programme is headed with a superb Ambrosia masterpiece “The Qufcen of Nineveh,” founded on one of those old Assyrian legends that have moved tho modern world to its heartcoro with their power and audacity. The Ambrosio Company have followed the dramatic story with fidelity, presented it simply hut with remarkable realism, and all through it is full of unusual and stirring effects. Other pictures are “Tho Changing of Silas Warner,” a Vitagraph drama; “The Peace Offering,” a comedy drama by the same company; “A Byzantine Tragedy,” by Eclair Studio; a screaming Luhin comedy, “Fascinating Bachelors ”; and an industrial subject , “Homes of British Industry”; a scientific film, “Chemical Action”; and a fine scenic view of “The Basilica of St. Marc.” There arc other scenic and comic pictures, all of a high standard of merit. The Biograph Pictures will also bo showing in Waitara tonight, when the full programme just finished in Wluteley Hall -will he presented to a Waitara audience in St. John’s Hall.