AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 January 1916, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

'■BOUGHT AND PAID FOR." The box plan for the production of George- Broadhurst's enormously successful comedy-drama, "Bought and Paid For," winch will be presented for the first and only time in New Plymouth on Thursday night next, will be opened at Collier's this morning at !) o'clock, when there will doubtless be a large demand for seats, as certainly no greater dramatic attraction, has yet been sent to New Plymouth by the Williamson firm. Playgoers will probably recognise .1. C. Williamson's enterprise in (riving them the privilege of witnessing such a magnificent drama as "Bought and Paid For," which is to be presented by the gifted American actress. Muriel Starr, with Charles A. Milhvard and a powerful company of dramatic .artists. There are four acts, the scenes being laid in New York, and deal with the conditions among bo '. rich and poor, The story of this remarkable play ia as follows:—Two girls reared in luxury are left alone in the world to earn their own living. They struggle on with the ups and downs of a business girl's life in a big city until the younger meets her fate in the place where slu is employed. The man is very rich and attractive, but has a past of which the girl does not dream, but which she understands only too well when they are married. The interest of the play turns on the day-by-day developments, which show the young wife the price aha has paid. This-role will be played by Miss Starr, and Mr. Milhvard will appear as Stafford, the millionaire, whose representation of the drunken husband is said to offer one of the outstanding features of the production. Local playgoers will be keenly interested in Muriel Starr season for many reasons. One is that Miss Starr herself is now saying farewell to New Zealand, where she is regarded by many to be one of the best emotional actresses who have ever visited these shores. EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE. ■'No flreater Love" is the title of the Eclipse Company's big feature film which will be shown for the first time at the Empire Picture Palace to-night. This picture, which is OOOOft in length, is said to be a remarkable and unconventional story of the overwhelming love and ambition of a woman for her daughter, for whose sake husband, friends, fame, honor and life itself are sacrificed. It is more the fierce love of a tigress for her cub than the soft influence of true mother love, and as such leads the woman tn great heights and terrible depths. As '■Sadunah, the [Dancer," the woman of passionate loves and hatreds, is said to have a wonderful exponent in Millie. I Regina Badet. the famous French tragedienne, who has justly been called the Sarah Bernhardt of the film, and it is said ehe rises to sublime heights of tragic power in the character of the tigressmother. Spa-co forbids telling the story in detail; in fact, it would he hardly fair to do so, as the film story is said to he fascinating and powerfully > and cleverly conceived and worked out. In addition to the "nig film a picture that should he strongly attractive is a charming and bright American comedy entitled 'The Sort of ("iirl who Came from Heaven." in which the Yitagraph favorites, Anita Stewart and Earle Wil- ■ liams, are seen to even greater advantage than in their highly successful comedy, "The Right fiirl." The latest Pathe War Gazette will also he shown.