ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 278, 3 May 1915, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE EMPIRE. "The Brute,' a powerful dramatic study by the Famous Players Company, and featuring Malcolm Williams, was produced for the first time in New Plymouth at the Empire Theatre last .Saturday evening. It is a powerful drama, full of touching incidents from start to finish. Briefly told the story is as follows:—"The Brute," as lie is called by name, but not in nature, is a self-made man, wrapped up in his work, but loving -his pretty and delicate wife and his little son Bobbie with all the ardour of his great nature. He has no time to cultivate the niceties of life, and his rugged exterior and lack of social graces often annoy his wife, who loves luxury and secretly covets the wealth and position her hard-working husband is unable to give her. One day an old suitor, now rich, crosses her path and renews his former advances, in spite of the fact that her husband is his best friend. The plot thickens unknown to the loving husband. The new lover hurries west ii> settle his business, and while there he is taken suddenly ill and dies. He leaves his fortune to "The Brute's" wife. The latter is now; crushed with remorse, and realises even in her grief, that the fear of her husband's discovery of her halfpremeditated guilt is greater than her sorrow for her dead admirer. With this fact comes the realisation that she loves her husband more than she ever did any other man. How she accepts the fortune bequeathed her, how the unspecting husband finally discovers the truth, exerts liia supremacy, and eventualy conquers and forgives her is vividly portrayed in the further development and finale of this exciting realistic drama. 'The supporting programme is a capital one, and includes some excellent films such as "Winter Logging in the Main," an educative scenic. "The 'School Teacher and the Waif," featuring Mary Pick ford; and "Hello, Mabel!" a Keystone comedy, in which Mabel Normand plays the part of the telephone girl In a hotel. "I'athe's War Gazette" is well worth seeing as it gives splendid views of Russia's army in the field.