AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume C, Issue 15290, 6 March 1914, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

FULLERS' PICTURES. The unpropitious weather last evening did non prevent a large number of picture patrons visiting tne lneatro Royal, where a new pj.ograinnie was screened. Tnose who aiu so were rewaraed with one of the Dest pictorial bias. TheJNew Zealand Animated News consistea eniehy of views in uid around AucKianu. *\Lucca Cavalry" depicted supero norsemansnip in Italian army manoeuvres. bome of the tests were particularly dangerous, and numerous nasty tails were seen. A hue spectaole was some hundreds -oi cavalrymen fording a river at full speed. . "iSunnyj or the Cattle Thief," was an entertaining story el a gal and a ranchman. Pathe's Gazette presented. some interesting phases of tne .Leeds strike. "Plants and Flowers" was an exquisite noral sudject, in colour. "ine Clothes Luie Quarrel," a Tlianhouser drama, told an entertaining story of two Uttle children who caused trouble between their respective parents. Much has been read about the famous Carrara marble quarries, and a him depictmg how the stone is obtained and piisseu through various stages was extremely interesting. Kalem's melodramatic masterpiece, | "The Chinese Death Thorn," occupied some forty minutea in Briefly it concerns a youthful opium victim, and the doings of a gang who congregate in tne opium den. One day a banker's party visit the Chinese quarters, and the banker's daughter discovers, the youth there. An act, of bravery by the youth earns her pity, and she resolves to reform him. ' Bhe persuades her father to give/him a position in the bank, and the drug habitue turns over a new leaf. He is discovered by the leader of the gang, who leads him into terrible scrapes before the rascal is himself caught. The picture play was admirably acted, and Kalein have never before produced such a subject of absorbing interest, and at the conclusion hearty applause was iheard. Kalein completed the programme with a brilliant farce, "The Gusher." Incidentally were shown some fine views of American oil wells, and also a magnificent fire. The orchestra once more fulfilled their onerous task splendidly. The' series will be shown again to-night.