THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1916, Page 6

THE EMPIRE.

MATINEE TO-DAY AT 2 P.M. "STOLEN MAGIC." A splendid matinee programme has been arranged for to-day, when tiie chief pictures will be a side-splitting Triangleiveystone comedy, entitled "Stolen Magic," and a powerful Vitagraph feature drama, ''His Golden Grain." The comedy features Raymond Hitchcock, Mabel Normand and Mac!-: Sennett, which is a sure guarantee that the fun is fast and furious. It's a farcical medley of magic -and mirth that every adult and child will delight to see. TO-NIGHT—"' WOMAN AND WINE.-' To-night will see the final screening of this much-discussed film, which filled the theatre to overflowing last night. The film is by the World Film Corporation, 'and a motion picture version- of Arthur Shirley's famous melodrama. It is in every respect a high-class production, and interprets the drama with a careful regard to the coherency of the plot, notwithstanding the necessary condensation. To-night will be the final presentation of "Woman and Wine" in New -Plymouth. MONDAY AND TUESDAY, ,: CHTLD OF THE PARIS STREETS." Mother love leads to a cruel revenge in "The Child of the !Paris Streets," D. W. Griffith's line-arts play, to be shown at the Empire Theatre next Monday and Tuesday. True, the mother concerned is only an old hag, who is queen of the Paris apaches; but she is a mother for all that, and her affection for her thieving boy, who is about to be sentenced to the gallows is no common j one. She loves him better than her own disreputable life, -and when the presiding judge refuses to commute his judgment on the poor wretch before him, sho determines lie shall be made to .suffer as she suffers. Accordingly, she sends her other son to steal the judge's baby daughter "From her cradle. She does not kill the child, but raises her a? an apache, making her a criminal in every way possible, and taking a delight in nor vengeance and its living reminder. Mae Marsh and Bobby Harran, who stair in this five-act Griffith's feature, will be remembered for their work in many of the master producer's greatest successes. In 'The Birth of a, Nation" they play leading roles.