THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1916, Page 6

THE EMPIRE.

A STUPENDOUS DRAMATIC SPEC ?ACLE. "THE GOLDEN CLAW,'< INCE-TRIANCLE FEATURE A woman having tasted of flic, sweets of life and stopped in her headlong career at the brink of'a moral precipice from which she cannot turn back, makes a striking figure in "The Golden Claw," a six-act drama to be screened on the Triangle programme at the Empire tonight. Lillian Montresser, the girl, had extravagant tastes, and she sold herself in marriage to the man who had the wealth to gratify her social ambitions — Harry Stephens. In a few months there came a financial crash; he went to Lillian for sympathy and received reproaches. He hart broken his part of the compact, that hideous compact that made mockery of their altar vows. He started life afresh, but embittered, and again he won his u'ay.to a position which rendered possible his wife's butterfly social activities. Fifty thousand dollars was the cost. But it meant to the man endless scheming, planning, plotting, long hours of sleepless nights. He had become a money-making machine, and the woman spent as fast as he could make. Again he went to the wall—this time in a fierce financial fight with the man who had always been his rival for Lillian's volatile love. With just one sacrifice Lillian could have saved her husband, but she refused. It is hard to say what will happen next in ''The Golden Claw." It is one of those dramas which always has a punch up its sleeve, and with two such artists as Frank Mills and Miss Bessie Barriscale to impersonate Harry Stephens and Lillian Montresser, big dramatic movements are numerous. The box plan for this great dramatic spectacle is open it Collier's.