THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1916, Page 6

THE EMPIRE.

CONTINUOUS PICTURES FROM 2 p.m. TO-DAY.' A TRIANGLE-KEYSTONE SCREAM. •CROOKED TO THE END." A sensation in uproarious situations! This is a very apt description of the Trough-Keystone comedy,, "Crooked to the End,", which heads the new programme at the Empire. A crowded ■house viewed the picture, yesterday evening, and the pace at which everything moved along proved irresistibly humorous. Mack Sennett, the great Keystone producer, was responsible for the film, which was prepared at Loa Angelos in a single day, juid designed to burlesque the railway drama <ind all things in the line of tram accidents, motor smashes, and frightful explosions. The fact that so many tragic incidents were crowded into such a small space, with the Triangle comedian, Fred Mace, developing the shocks, produced a most extraordinary theme, and the climax is so thrilling tlia.t the film could scarcely have been voted anything but crooked to the end. Supporting items are of good quality, "The Lesson of Narrow Street" is a gripping Vitagraph drama. "A Night in Old Spa-in" is a pretty costume play by the Lubii*. Company. "The Excavations of Ostia" is the title of a colored Cines scenic. The "Gaumont Graphic" includes numerous views of the British Army at Salonika, and some photographs of a .railway snow-plough at work during the recent blizzard in the north of England. This programme will be screened continuously to-da> commencing at 2 p.m.