ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4003, 9 August 1915, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CHAS. CHAPLIN AT THE WORLDS Since June last the popular lilmcomodiah Chas. Chaplin has been making his film comedies exclusively 1 under the management of the Essanay 'j - Film Co. (for which the World’s Pic-. | tlives hold sole lights), and with the : greater facilities afforded has devolopj ed ni typo of humor for in excess of all I liis previous efforts. His quaint nni tics have gained such a grip on the ; public that the term “Chaplinitus” has been coined for the hearty laughter I which invariably is the result of Ids j latest productions. In. “Champion Charlie,” which the World’s Pictures • are screening this afternoon and evo- ! ning Charlie, wandering about with ; his bulldog sees a. sign on a gymnas- : ium door that white hopes are wanted I for a “try out.” He is scheduled ut light the great champion. After a course of training, in which Chaplin keeps the spectators 'in roars of laughter with his unique antics, ho finally | faces his opponent in the prize ring, j On the front seat, as one of tin specI tutors, is his bulldog. The carnal i actually smiles whenever Chaplin regiis tors a knockdown. Its face \s fierce | and gloomy when its master goes • '> j the mat. After a long, hard battle I the. champion finally gets Chaoi'n j against the ropes and proceeds to ;>anj ish him unmereifully. The dog leaps from its scat and dashes to tlm roig ! and grabs the champion by the srat.ol’ the trousers and pulls him away. Ike | champion lights desperately to shako ; off the bulldog, but it holds on like 1 grim death. Chaplin then attach-s Ins rival and finally scores a knockout punch. I'he champion takes the I count I I i OPERA HOUSE PI.CTC.REf>. j 'The large'Opera House was packed | in all parts on Saturday evening, | when a. magnificent programme was screened. “Shannon of the Sixth” | was flic chief attraction, iand takes up j the whole of the second part of the ; entertainment. ’Phis is a thrilling and | exciting d-nuna of the Indian mutiny. ! Many of tlm incidents are historically i correct, and 1 the places where tin-, scenes enacted arc faithful reproductions. The play includes some (if the most exciting situations that have ever been presented on the scr.en, amongst which is the famous massacre at Meerut in May, 1857. ’The nation who fought so bitterly against us in those days is now one of our best friends, and is sending troops to suppress the Huns. “Australia Will Re There’’ caused the wildest of enthusiasm, and shows the Australian forces leaving for Egypt. “I.)r. Smith’s Ha by” and “'Phe Fashion Shop” arc two delightful comedies, while the latest “War Oazetto” i s highly interesting with nows from England and tlio war zone. '(libs splendid programme will he repeated this evening. PAT HE PICTURES. Glowing comments were to be heard on all sides at His Majesty's Theatre on Saturday concerning the excellence of the new films introduced by way of the week-end change of programme. Hood houses were recorded at both the matinee and evening performances, and the rich fare submitted was keenly relished. Seldom do so many feature subjects appear on the one offering as was the case on Saturday. Had a referendum been taken as to which was the best lilm of the series it is certain that every subject submitted would have had a good many followers. Chief in point of popular interest was unquestionably the special Rathe War Gazette, which gave some intensely-interesting peeps at the Russian army. 'Phe view given of blessing the troops in iho trenches showed with what deep religions fervor the Russians are entering into the fight to n. finish. What a fine stamp of men onr Russian allies are was shown in the view given of General Selianoff, ihe conqueror of Przeniysl, and his • staff. Veritable giants of men were these, with an air of quiet determination about them that inspired confidence. Coming nearer home, a splendid view was given of Lord KiteJieriei watching the march past of the men of Liverpool and Manchester who had answered his call. In the serried ranks of the Britishers wore many niants too, whose builds will heavily upon, the rivets of the German war machine, and eventual!) smash it to bits. Uproarious merriment was created by the iiotous Ik(, stone eoinedv, ‘‘Getting Acquainted, in which Charles Chaplin’s amorous proclivities arc responsible for getting a number of husbands and wives mixed up in most ludicrous fashion. It is one of the best'bits of farce fun perpetrated, to date. Ibe Majcs ic players were responsible for one of two best comedies seen tor many a day. •Him was entitled, “The Lost Lord Lovell,” and showed how an impecunious Englishman was mistaken for a missing scion of a noble English fa - ilv who bad just inherited a fabulom fortune. He is lionised by the ladies the second-rate boardinghouse but ills fall is great, when the real lord turns out to be butler next dooi, Aiho has fust married the, slavey at tlm boardinghouse. “A C-lose CoU is a thrilling Western story, ' T how a hrhve woman suc.-eeec.s m■ ■ > qUrn lives of her husband and her h Hlc daughter from a desperate bandit, who has just robbed the stage cone - •The Clean bhite” (i.ubiii) and Hu. Passer-By” (V.t-agraph). wme also very human- stones winch t, J responsive chord m Hie lieait-s ol audience. The rich humor nrovnhd )»y that lightning sket-h attm , Stnddy, in bis sk.ts <m the ua relished.. w hik t[O I* SO,. assort ■!.& mi .««««“ will be repeated to-nigbt-_