THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1916, Page 6

THE EMPIRE.

THE THIRD GENERATION.' A MAGNIFICENT "LONDON" FILM. The star attraction at the Empire tonight is a superb London tinu "The Third Generation." Briefly ilie picture shows how in the 'sixties the son and heir of crusty old Lord Sherston wooed a farmer' 9 daughter, pretty Rhoda Hayes He wedded her in secret, and the old oak which had sheltered the>v love letters also held their marriage certificate. The young wiro promised to keep silence, but on- the, day when her ln.sband had meant to declare hi? marriage, her parents discovered her shame, and Farmer Hayes rushes to the Mar or House to denounce her betrayer. The Lord of the Manor received him wii.ii contemptuous indifi'erence, and tlio outraged father swore to have justice, but even as he spoke a mournful procession entered the gates, bearing the body of the young heir who had been killed in a hunting accident. Rhoda lost her reason 011 hearing of her husband'* death and died in giving birth to a son. The old oak kept its secret and the Hayes family mourned the blot on their name, the old father calling down a terrible curse on the hated Sherstons.. Years later, when another Lord Sherston reigned it the Manor the son of the unhappy Rhoda fell in love v.'ith Sheraton's daughter Irma. The Earl's crafty secretary, Onslow Flail, who hoped to win the heiress for himself, discovered the girl's secret and plotted against the lovers so that Mark first thought her faithless and afterwards, when the misunderstanding was cleared up, he was parted from her by her angry father wlio hurried his wilful daughter away to his Highland Castle. Mark followed his sweetheart, however, carried her off from her prison and married her in the Scotch fashion His bride was torn from him and Lord Sherston swore to have the marriage annulled, but during a terrible storm the oak, struck by lightning, gave up its secret and when Mark Hayes forced his way into the Manor Horse to claim his wife it was as the rightful owner for he held in his hands the marriage certificate of Rhoda Hay: ,: . and Robert Sherston. £0 Flail's plotting came to nought and the curse of the Sheistons passed away with the union of Mark and Irma. This splendid production will only be screened for to-night'.; cliLngo,

, TO-MORROW. 1 NEW CHARLIE CHAPLIN HCTU3E \J'TEE riRE.MAN,' ! / Qiarlel 'CK ; .pliri is a name to .conjure with and in "The Fireman" he is f. verU. h> wliir'v.'itid of hearty laughter "The Fireman'' i:, a eomic play which I gives scope tc all the 'characters .to be as funny as they can, and they cadi take the oporti.niiy to make good. Chaplin stands right out and shows how really clever he is.