ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2683, 13 December 1909, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

PATHE PICTURES.

On Saturday afternoon and evening the Pathe Picture Company’s new programme was shown to good audiences, and w’as greatly appreciated. This new programme includes a great variety of subjects, and appealed to everyone present, the applause' being consistent throughout the evening. Lovers of melodrama had the pleasure of seeing three exciting stories presented in “The Voice from the Dead,” “Buffalo Bill’s Famous Exploits,” and “Nick Carter in Dauger.” In the first-named the story shown is particularly interesting at the present, time. Work in a large steel foundry is about to be stopped owing to a strike. The superintendent. , who is in love with the senior partner’s daughter, overhears the particulars, and acquaints the proprietor. The scene is then taken back to the works, where the senior and junior partner have, an altercation, and the senior partner falls in a faint through heart failure. The junior, who is the rival of the superintendent, then contrives so: that th* superintendent is arraigned for murder, and would be sentenced, only that a phonograph, into which the 'senior partner has spoken a dying message, is produced in Court and exonerates' him. During the picture a dramatic' scene is shown of the junior partner and the superintendent in a death struggle, in which the superintendent is about to be hurled into the furnace when he is saved by the bravery of the foreman's daughter. In the third picture, which is beautifully colored, exciting incidents are shown in the life of Nick Carter the great American detective. A pathetic picture is “The Widow,” ili -which a mother, for the sake of her son, enters into a second marriage. She then, in sudden despair and remorse, throws herself over a cliff into the sea, and is bravely rescued _by her son. Finally she decides to live for the" boy’s sake. A picture entitled “Youthful Britons,” showing the youngest exponents of the fistic art, the Masters Corrie. in a clever bout, w T as particularly- interesting to the juveniles, and elicited loud applause.'. Several beautiful films illustrative or foreign lands were shown, including “The Water Carnival at Mexico,’ A Tram Ride through Gottenburg, and “Russian Cavalry,” while the element was well supplied in The Would-be tampion,” VMr. Durant wants Amusement, and A Make,-.-shift - 'Postman.” The programme will he repeated to-night and to *™ night. A change of programme wiU be given.on Wednesday. . rVf-S