THE EMPRESS THEATRE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1859, 19 September 1913, Page 5

THE EMPRESS THEATRE.

"Under the Shadow of the Law" was I introduced at tho Empress Theatre yesterday as the star -attraction. The film is tho work of the American Biograph Company, and the plot is worthy of the position which the picture holds. New i:ork society life apparently affords an endless vista, and while this picture purports to deal with phases of it a good deal has to bo taken for granted. However, tho plot is a capital one, and the emotional scenes are very well acted by this company's most popular artists. The story deals with an employer's attempt to incriminate one of his clerks oil a charge of embezzlement in order that ho may forco his attentioni 9 n tho employee's sister. Tho scliemo is frustrated by a discharged convict, who in saving the girl and her brother, meets an honourable death. "Fortuno Smiles" is an Edison romance., dealing with the serial story of "What Happened to Mary." "The Old College Badge" is a delightful story of the East Indies, set amidst charming natural scenery in Jamaica. Excellent comedy and amplo justification for a hearty laugh is provided in "Circumstances Make Heroes," by the Edison Company. The famous old city in India—Seringapatan—which tho English stormed and captured_ in 1799,-forms the subject of a very interesting historical picture.