ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 163, 16 December 1914, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EMPIRE PICTURES. Last night a large audienie witnessed the famous Players' latest film triumph, "One. of our Girls." Kate Shipley, an American heiress, crosses the Atlantic to attend the wedding of her little cousin, Julie, in France. Little does she know what Fate, holds in store for her when she leaves her Fifth Avenue home. Julie marries the profligate Comte de Crebillon, though she loves her cousin Henri, and Kate grieves to see her little, cousin grow sadder and paler every day. The American girl is loved bv Captain John Gregory, a dashing British officer, to whom.she is soon betrothed. The Comte de Crebillon conceals a secret in his past, a broken and beautiful woman, who suddenly appears one night at the chateau, and confronts him, after which she is never seen alive again. Dr. Girodet, the family physician, dislikes the Comte. Hearing a woman's scream on the fatal night, he begins investigations, which end in the finding of the woman's body in the old v.is'ning-well in the garden of the estate. Suicide is the verdict given in the woman's death, and the Comte breathes freely for a time. He is harsh, suspicious, and cruel to his girl-wife, and poor little Julie decides to leave France with her sweetheart cousin. Julie writes Kate she is eloping, and the impulsive girl goes Henri's room to save Julie from her folly. There she is discovered by the Comte and her own betrothed, Captain Gregory. To shield her cousin Kate takes the awful situation upon her own shoulders. The development of the play thrilbngly portrays a series of dramatic situations that culminate in the triumph I