AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CV, Issue 16081, 30 September 1916, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

| A GENSOPJET) FILM. > TO BE SHOWN TO-NIGHT. At tho'/'G&'aiuT. Giiiema. t-o-riiglit-, will bo shown for "the Tasc time as it is. "censored' 1 after' this ciaLe ' 3lie YeJow Passport," a st.rrjig dr-anna dealing with a massacre of Jews in Russia, and a persecution of a Jewess girl, who ' desires to -become an opera singer, by a p-Ace spy." Her family are killed in the massacre, and in order to remain in the country and continue her music lessons Son.a, the heroine takes out the "Yellow. Passport" of a public woman, without which she, as a Jew, could not reru'ain outside the Jewish quarter. ■ Persecuted for living unde'r false pretences she - and ; her ; uncle- leave for An.erica, and even there are pursued by the malevo'enee of the police- spv. feohia goes through severe trials but the dramatic properties arc met in the end.-To-mght is the last time tha-t this film will be shown hi the. Dominion. THE GTiAXD. ! 'The Nature' Man" came in.-for keen , admiration at the Grand • aga>ii last night. It. is a story or tlie back-' to-nature life and is admirabh* worked out in every detail. _ It- contains plenty of adventure iud is not lack ng in instructive' .qualities.- It. will doubtless amuse md. instruct the, children -at to-day's mat'nee. A fin©, travel picture! is aiso to .be screened showing scenes' all over the world from "Lapland'' to Samoa." Otheir good pictures make up a programme that- ,'s the best- ever I screened for (Children. I THE LYGI2UM. "The Sins of the Mothers' 1 again attracted a gopd aud.ence &z the Lyceum list night.As on the>_ •cpeiing night it- was followed with intense interest, The quality of the artists and the excellence of the plot and the photography ensuring this. The visible faculties were strongly appealed to in the Keystone comedy,. "A Boathouse Blunder,*" and the children will enjoy tl'.js, as well as. the excellent supporting films this afternoon. FULLERS' PICTURE'S. The delightful c .--medy-Jrama. "Seven S'sters" was unreeled to ari 1 her highly appreciative audience «t the Theatre Royal last night. It .is -J tprySn© fijni creation and should prove a great at-, tr-action a.t the matinee this afternoon and at to-n'ght's Pnal 5 giving.' The supporting films are all 'J a high cider.