AMUSEMENTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11207, 13 October 1914, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

€» THEATRE. , At the Grand Theatre yesterday the principal feature of the new programme was the fourth instalment or the serial romance, " Lusille Love." In these latest chapters the international spy continues his attempts to recover from the heroine the incriminating papers which she had stolen from him. She i 6 protected by a savage tribe vrlth whom she has found refuge from the spy's persecutions, but he conspires with certain natives, seta fire to her hut, lures her out with a falsa message, so that she falls into a pit, and recovers the papers. Ho realises, however, that he can do but little until ho also secures an amulet which the natives regard with superstitious awe. He is plotting the recovery of the amulet, and tho heroine , is lying stunned in the pit, into which hungry lions are beginning to wnnder, as the ■instalment closes. Included in the stirring scenes of these latest chapters is a very realistic series of pictures of a desperate fight between savage tribes. "The supporting films include a wellconstructed dramatic picture entitled " Under the Skin,'' an interesting picture of Danish girl gymnasts, and a number of topical and comedy pictures, including "Tweedledum _ is a Real American." The same pictures will be shown to-day. gueenTWeatre. The principal film in the new series shown at the Queen's Theatre yesterday was a lengthy drama entitled "Orders Under Seal." Tho picture showed how relations between two nations were strained to a breaking point. A secret agent of a foreign power endeavoured to find out the plans of the home Government, and to attain his end he organised a carrier pigeon service between his headquarters and an old_ mill on ln's estate. On the declaration of war the rear-admiral of the home arranged the order of attack, and handed over the sealed orders to his. boh. a lieutenant. A tragic .train of events brought the orders within reach of the foreign spy, who sent them by pigeon to his chief. The bird, however, was shot by a Government officer, and the message was discovered The rear-admiral suspected his son of treachery, and ordered his arrest. Ho was found guilty and ordered to he shot. Before the sentence was carried into effect the foreign spy was trapped in his headquarters at tho mill, around which a battle was racing. Tho lieutenant's wife, prostrate with grief, fell into a troubled sleep and in a dream the solution of the trouble revealed itself. She tramped to the mill, but the building had taken fire and when she discovered tho spy he was dying from suffocation. Knowing ho was near death he confessed to the th»ft of the orders, and the wife returned just in time to save her husband. The onlv other film screened was "The Topical Budget," which was up to its usual l\i' T h standard. The same pictures will bo screened to-day.