AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1915, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

EMPIRE PICTURES. The new programme at the Empire features a big Lubin master play. "Rated at $10,000,000." Samuel Ellis and May, his second wife, live by their wits. Sam has a daughter by his first wife, who has inherited beauty and principles from ner mother, vastly different from her stepmother. Desiring to use the girl for social advancement, they take her from school and instruct her to join them at a swell hotel. On the train trip "High-brow Joe" steals Lily's handbag, and when the conductor calls for her ticket she discovers her loss. Her embarrassment, is relieved by a gentleman in the opposite seat, who, when the train stops, disappears. Joe, the/crook, follows the .gentleman and steals his wallet, in which he finds cards and papers that tell the owner to he Robert Leeds, a young millionaire. Joe goes to the Savoy Hotel where the Ellis family are staying and registers as Robert Leeds. The newspapers quickly note the fact that a millionaire is a guest at the hotel, and Ellis and his wife lose no time in introducing Lily. She, however, dislikes him, and later discovers him stealing from the guests. Joe, seeing that he is discovered, kidnaps the girl and takes her to a fence presided over by an old crone, ''Frisco Fan." There Lily is held prisoner, but she manages to write a. note stating her situation and throws it from the window. The note is picked up by no other than the real Robert Leeds. He notifies the police and then goes to the Hotel Savoy, whore, seeing his own name on the register, lie signs himself as John Smith. Lily is duly rescued, and Joe, the crook, taken to new lodgings. Sam Ellis and wife make a hasty exit without paving their bill, and that night Mr. and Mrs-. Robert Leeds are registered as bride and groom at the Savoy. A number of other films were shown, including a splendid edition of Pathe's Gazette.

"HER SHATTERED IDOL." At the Empire Theatre to-morrow evening will be shown a four-part "feature," "Her Shattered Idol," a picture reported to be in the front rank of pictorial plays. Miss Mae Harsh, who will lie remembered in "Home, Sweet Home" and "The Outcast," plays .the leading role, that of a romantic oh-] w ith ideals with which she endows the village blacksmith, only to lind in the end that her idol has "feet of clay." Hiss Marsh is probably the- most popular film actress, after Mary Pickford. in the picture world to-day. Robert Harron, a character actor of sterling ability, from tile legitimate "boards," is said to make a tremendous hit as the blacksmith, the modern "cave-man." A magnificent and exciting scene is witnessed when in the dreams of the foolish girl she becomes a cave-woman, and two pre-historic fierce cave-men fight to the death for her—a scene without parallel in the picture world. "Cartoons in a Laundry" (Edison burlesque), "His .Jungle Sweetheart" (Belig dramal, "The Isle of Isehia" (seenie), "Tlie Dance of the Malays" (Pathc interest), and the "Topical Gazette" are also on the bill. Seats may be booked at the theatre.