AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1915, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

"THE LION'S OUBS." To-day at 2.30 a magnificent dramatic production by the London Film Company, the producers of "England's Menace," etc., will be the feature film at the Empire. The London Film Company in their appropriately-named drama, "The Lion's Cubs," have woven a very fine story of Ocrman spies and Foreign Office espionage in which their doings wore frustrated and brought to nought by the gallant efforts of the Boy Scouts and Scotland Yard detectives. Attempts were made to steal plans of the Allies from the Home Office, but tlio diligence of a Boy Scout at whose place one of the German spies boarded, prevented the scheme being carried out successfully. In every scene exciting situations occur, and all the extraneous aids of motorcars, aeroplanes, etc., are called into requisition by the author. The picture is most interesting, and will, 110 doubt, be greatly appreciated by Empire patrons. Supporting the feature is a splendid topical film depicting the training of the Commonwealth Navy in all phases and the making of the destroyer Brisbane at the Naval Depot at Cockatoo Island; a splendid Vitagraph comedy, "Professioal Scapegoat," the Pathc Gazette (topical), "Famous Italian Marble Quarries" (interest) and "The Refugee" (drama) will also bf included In the new bill.