AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1916, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE. Although "The Awakening" is being billed as the star picture for to-night at the Empire Picture Palace, the programme is really full of feature films. "The Awakening" is perhaps the principal attraction because of the appearance of those two great favorittes, Miss Anita Stewart and Earle Williams, in the leading roles. The story presents an interesting contrast between life in high society and that in the slums. Earle Williams fills the part of a young doetor, while his partner sustains the role of an angelic slum girl, and the two never did better work before the camera. There is a splendid finale to the story, and generally the film is up to the very highest standard of those turned out from the Vitagraph establishment. The Thanhouser Company provides a powerful drama, entitled ''Reincarnation." It, is notable for novel conception and rare skill in presentation. It portrays the terrific power of the past upon {he present in the form of a epirtual reincarnation of ideas and ideals. The acting of Miss Florence.La Badie in the.lead is a particular feature. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew cause no end of laughter in a clever comedy, "Following the Scent," and there is another good comedy by the Hepworth Company, under the name of "Wife—the Weaker vessel." The Pathe War Ciazette is as up-to-date as usual, and forms an important part of the [evening's entertainment. "How the French Coast is Guarded" is a film which illustrates the doings of hydroplanes, torpedo destroyers and other speedy craft engaged in protecting the coastline of France. Appropriate musical items are played throughout by the Empire Symphony Orchestra.