THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1916, Page 7

THE EMPIRE.

'A DELIGHTFUL LASKY ROMANCE.) itTIIE WILD GOOSE CHASE* . featuring beautiful ina CLAIRE. The Empire Theatre cotimies to draw good houses. The new'programme for to-night has as its prime attraction a Lasky Paramount film, "The Wild Goose Chase," in which Miss Ina Claire, the musical comedy actress, appears in the leading role, with Tom Forman as her chief support. Tile scene is laid in France, where two grandfathers of title decide to leave some millions of francs each to their respective grandson and granddaughter, provided they marry each other. The news is sent to their sons and daughterin-law in Philadephia. The parents agree to the match, but the young people are perverse and fail to meet the wishes of the match-making parents. Bob Randall sends his roommate to call on Bessy Wright, who, in her turn, dresses 1151 as lu'v maid and gets the latter to impersonate her. To get rid of the importunities of the old folk at home, the young couple, separately of course, run away from home. They join a travelling theatrical troupe, and become great friends. The mummers, however, have less money than liistoric talent, and find themselves in gaol for debt. In this plight the girl's mother and father find 'her and pay the debt, on getting Betty's gromise to behave herself in future. In parting with her chum they exchange names and adresses, and are pleasantly surprised to find that they can carry out the wishes of their parents without doing violeace to their own feelings. Thereafter tliey carry out the wishes of the wealthy grandparents, and all ends well, after a wild goose chase. Other items in a fine programme include a Reliance drama, "The Muffled Bell," and Pathe's Gazette of war films. The "Wild Goose Chase" will also be shown all day to-morrow commencing at i p.m.

A WONDERFUL "BLUE EIBBOX" FEATURE. "THE CHALICE OF. COURAGE." CYRUS TOWXSENO BRADY'S EEMASKABLE BOOK PICTURI'SED. "T!ie Chalice of Courage,' the star feature to be screened at the Empire next Monday and Tuesday is at once a great scenic film, depicting the grand, wild and beautiful scenery of the Rocky Mountains, and an intensely interesting film drama, dealing with life in the gold mining camps of the Great Xorth-West. The play, written by Cyrus Townsend Brady, abounds in sensational incidents, including the headlong fall of a horse and rider down a precipice a thousand feet; a fight with a ferocious grizzly bear; a terrible mountain storm, driving rain on- the lower slopes and heavy snow on the summit; and the brave rescue of the heroine by a mountain recluse us she is being swept down the canyon 'by the rain-swollen river. How he comes to be a recluse, how her people give her up fsr dead, and she and the recluse are snowed up for three months in his hut on the mountain; how they meet the supreme tijst, drm'-ing deeply of the chalice of courage; and how at last some vindication and love, and a happy ending, is told in masterly style. Jealousy and love make a drama tense with passion. Seats for this very attractive subject can now be reserved it Collier'j.