AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1915, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

THE EMPIRE THEATRE. "When It Strikes Home," a drama typifying a phase of New York life, is tile feature of the new Empire programme. Like all stories since Eden, this story is about a man and a woman, btit tluw' happen into it oilier men 1 and other women. The man is liick Hartley, a rich man's son, and the woman is a stage belle. They are married, but the marriage ends in man-made tragedy, for the irate father, disapproving of the dancing girl, uses the American Courts to annul the marriage of his son, who is still a minor. The youth is sent off to South America, there to forget his young wife. After the marriage is dissolved a son is born to the unhappy girl wife and her lot is hard. On the other hand, Dick Hartley settles down to business, prospers as a matter of course, and presently takes unto himself another wife. The marriage is childless, and they adopt a boy, who by the strage irony of fate subsequently proves to be the son of Hartley and his unhappy girl wife. This boy grows up, fotlows the profession of medicine, and is engaged in. the very same New York hospital in which his mother, known to hjin only as Sister Ursula, spends her life ministering to the sick. By and by old Hartley Is brought into the casualty ward of the hospital rather badly hurt, and he recognises Sister Ursula as the former dancing girl, and she in turn recognises in the young doctor her own son. Thereafter there are surprises, and the tangle is straightened out. The film, which is of exfeptional topical interest just now, takes the spectator for a trip up the River Clyde, through the shipbuilding now working at top speed building ships of war. The Gaumont Graphic is a kinema war record nowadays, and this week's budget of pictorial news of events in the Old World is of intense interest. The only comedy film on the bill has to do with an erring btit resourceful husband, and his adventures while he escapes from a somewhat severe but occasionally drowsy Wife. The programme is of pleasing variety and all round high quality.