THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1916, Page 6

THE EMPIRE.

'•THE SEVEN SISTERS." ADORABLE -MARGUERITE CLARKE A complete new programme will be screened to-night, when the chief attraction will he the romantic* Roumania.ii drama, "The Seven Sisters," featuring as the beautiful, ever charming and lovable heroine, Miss Marguerite Clarke, who not only looks the part to perfection, but proves herself a very callable and engaging actress. The play is admirably staged and mounted; it '•goes" with vim and nerve from start to finish. The story in itself is a simple one, and deal? mainly with the quaint Roumanian custom which forbids a younger sister to marry until all her elder sisters are married. Mici (Marguerite Clarke), the fourth girl in a family of seven, and her lover, a dashins lieutenant in the Roumanian army, however, overcome the difficulties after many romantic, amusing, and, at times, dramatic episodes. The picture is described as altogether charming, and has been a decided success wherever shown. As nsnai, the supporting items have been well selected, including a film of the Royal Army Medical Corps, and showing how carefully the wounded are tended at the front, in the base hospital and in the hospitals and the convalescent homes in the Mother Country. The full programme, will be screened again to-morrow night for the last time.

PROGRAMME ARRANGEMENTS EOR THIS WEEK.

The dainty Marguerite Clarke, as Mic-i, in the Famous Mayors' feature, "The Seven Sisters,'' -will be the chief attraction to-night and to-morrow. This programme also includes one of the most interesting official irnr films so far released, a comprehensive, picture showing the work of the Royal Army Medical Corps on active service in France.

"OUT FROM THE BIG SNOWS." This intensely interesting picture is to be screened on Wednesday night only. It is a Vitagraph blue ribbon star, which appeals very strongly to those who enjoy tales of adventure, endurance and daring, coupled with the magnetic appeal of the great frozen north. The love theme is well woven, advantage being taken of the primitive natures of the trappers who live in the snow-clad forests of North-Western Canada. HIS FIGHTING CHANCE."

On Thursday night the attraction is a, picturisation of the famous novel by Robert \V. Chambers, 'His Fighting Chance," telling of a'man's fight against the inherited drinking taint of three generations. E. K. Lincoln, who will be remembered for his excellent work with the Vitagraph players in the past, has the leading role of Stephen Siward, the man ivho was given a fighting chance to win the woman of his heart. "BOOTLES' BABY."

This delightful story by John Strange Winter has been adapted to motion pictures by the London Film Company, and h".s proved a most popular attraction in the leading towns. It is well known as a deiightful comedy-drama of military and social life, with many tense scenes and a plot that binds the sympathies. Starting on Friday evening, this picture will also be screened at the matinee on Saturday and again for the last time on Saturday evening.