ENTERTAINMENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13294, 25 September 1916, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL. CHARLIE CHAPLIN. "The Shop-Walker" (also known as "The Floor-Walker"), which is Chap, lin's first mutual comedy", will be presented to the film comedian's many admirers for the last time to-night. Edna Purvianco, who was Charlie's leading lady in many of his past successes, is with him in the Mutual Studios, and provides a pretty offset for the buffoonery of the humorous Charles, t The huge seating capacity of the Theatre Royal was fully taxed on Saturday night. To-night a* complete change of programme will be screened with "The Shopwalker." Patrons* ars advised to attend early to avoid disappointment.

THE KING'S./ The Triangle five-act drama, "A Lily and the Pose," now showing at the King's Theatre, is a masterpiece of the producer's art, while the story is a remarkabiy forceful one. There are some fine supporting subjects. BIG PICTURE FILM. GREATER THAN "QUO VADIS." Both as a marvel of film production and as a popular favourite "Quo Vadis" has been ousted from its proud position at the head of all film plays. There is a new picture in which all the most wonderful stunts of the cinema man have been combined with a thrilling play from the pen of the great Italian author, Gabriele d'Annunzio. The film is called "Cabiria." It is at once the most costly, the most successful, the most spectacular and the most complete picture play ever constructed. The Itala Film Company of Turin, Italy, already noted for its enterprise and originality, is responsible for this picture. Apart from the plot and the live interest of the play, both of* which are ingenious and absorbing, the picture is remarkable because its scenes are drawn from the Punic wars—the long and fearful contests between . ancient' Rome and ancient Carthage, for the dominion of the world. These wars took place in the third century before Christ, and that is the epoch in which

"Cabiria" is ; lair). No more fitting, could have been chosen for,'the produce tion of the Illnp than the present. l The •' world is distraught with the horror s r of the present war, and historians tell us / that this present war against Germany exceeds in magnitude only the Punic | wars of 218 B.C. That was a war of extermination, a war for every exisU once as this one is. It ended in the triumph of Rome. "Cabiria" will be shown in the Theatre Royal, Hamilton, on Thursday and Friday only. The box plan is at Paul's Book Arcade, and there is no charge for hooking.