ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3986, 17 July 1913, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

RATHE PICT!'RES. •‘Murry in haste and _ repent at leisure” is the lesson which the capable A.B. players teach in ‘‘Broken Ways,” whicli formed the star attraction in the new programme which ] Rathe Pictures to a lull house at His Majesty s 1 heatro. last night. The subject is artistically handled, while the acting throughout is very hue. A voting woman tired of the treatment’ she is receiving from a brutal husband, runs away and starts life afresh in a distant town. The handsome sheriff (alls in love with the pretty stranger, who, however, is not to he won. When happinness is dawning for the woman, her husband suddenly appears, upon the scene, a fugitive troiu justice. The wife, returning good for evil, shelters the outlaw, hut the sheriff hunts him down. A desperate struggle takes place, and the outlaw is killed. Brighter and happier days then dawn for the widow. It is one of the best of the many good things which have issued from the A.B. studios. and it charmed the big audience last’night from title to imprint. “Where Destiny Guides’- is one of clean, fresh dramas which transports the audience to exhilarating atmosphere of the wide spares in NorthWestern Canada. Hardihood, love, and adventure and the themes treated in this stirring romance. “At the End of the Line,” a vigorous story of an attack on a house by buglars, was relished for its remarkably realism The burglars are just debating whether they will slit the throats or the inmates,” when the police make a timely entrance, and the situation is saved. “The Mystery of the Grandfather’s Clock” at once made friends with the audience. Ibis cleverly-con-structed stow tells how a toting man’s suit it not received with favor by a stern papa. He is, however, received with open arms when he discovers the deeds of the farm, which have boon missing for JW '-ears, in the old clock. “Britain’s Hopes,” “’lour of Beroen Bandah,” “Tombs of Cochin China,” a capital “Rathe Gazette, and “Tommy and the Gluepot” completed a programme which would be exceedingly hard to heat Wr sentiment, charm, and humor. This highclass series will lie repeated this evening.

OPERA HOVSK P.ICTTRKS. Such an array of films is a rare occurrence in Gisborne, the collection as it stands ranks as the host ever seen here, the dramas especially standing out as star features. The heading of the list is left' to Ihe Last Blockhouse, and is a worthy picture of its kind. f l he habits of the Indians, etc., are splendidly portrayed, and are a revelation in themselves. The sturdy men and women who braved the terrors of the great Wild West are to he admired, and all should see this fine programme. The Greater Wealth by Selin; was a and intensely dramatic film. John Sharon, a steel magnate and a millionaire, has only one daughter, and is alienated from his wife. Mis daughter heroines ill. Young, his humble employee, views himself as a failure because his income shrinks as his family responsibilities increase. Young’s own daughter also becomes very ill, and as all his happiness is centred in his home, he grows morose and vengeful. Me attends an anarchistic meeting, and is prevailed upon to remove Sharon, as an enemy ot mankind. ’I he millionaire’s daughter dies, his own recovers. Young confronts Sharon as he comes from the deathbed scene, ’flic picture of bis palatial home and empty heart stays the assassin’s knife, and leads both to a better observance of the opportunities of life. _ All the others were, as wo said before, rare items and the whole can lie summed up in the'words: A programme of masterpieces we,II screened and with appropriate music cou situ ted a splendid even ing’s enterta i ument.