Amusements, Meetings, etc.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14403, 21 September 1914, Page 2

Amusements, Meetings, etc.

OPERA HOUSE. THE ROYAL PICTURES. TWO BIG STAB FILMS TO-NIGHT. This evening, at the Opera House, the public of Wanganui are promised an exceptional treat, when two- big star pictures, each 3000 ft in length, will be screened. The first picture, “Man’s Enemy,” is by the famous Klaw and Erlangsr s Company, and is a well-known play which had a tremendous run in the United States of America, This company has made arrangements with the American Biograph Company to produce all their s.age successes in motion picture plays, and the first, “Man’s Enemy,” will be thrown on the Opera House screen this evening. The second picture, “Absinthe,” strong, powerful, and unshakeable, is the thesis of this visualised dramatic sermon. It is a masterful and poignant story that hits straight home from the shoulder at one of the most destructive of evil habits. It is handled with tho finesse which only combinations like King Baggot, Leah Baird, and Herbert Brenon can accomplish. These great pictures will be supported by a capital scenic and comedy filb. Tlie box plan is now on view at Collier's, where seats may be reserved.

“NERO AND AG RUTIN A.” The Opera House should be packed to the doors on Thursday evening, when tho management will screen one of tho greatest of all motion pictures in “Nero and Agrippina;” showing a series of dramatic incidents in which the great Roman emperor is the central figure. It is the outcome of eight months of continuous work on the part of tho company, and cost over one million francs to complete. So satisfied, indeed, are its producers, ns to the artistic excellence of tlie film that they look upon it as their chef d’oeuvre, and aro content to let it go forth to the world as an cxamule of what Gloria Company can do. That a firm should take this view of any given work surely presages that it must be something altogether out of the ordiuarv, in point of excellence, and a glance at the beautiful series of pictures from tho film gives some idea of the beauty and splendour of' the production which the Gloria Company have just nut out, and afford at tlie same time in some slight measure nroof as to how far the claimsi of its producers arc jus’ificd. “Art for art’s sake” apt-ears to be the keynote which has inspired Signor Caserini iu his great work.