THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1916, Page 6

THE EMPIRE.

[ JEW TRIANGLE STAR. ! FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY IN "THJi i BUGLE CALL." "Ho acted like a man, looited like a real boy, and after it was over wanted to know if li 3 could have that bugle to keep and also the soldier's suit," said Thomas 11. Incc of William Collier, junr., the 10-yoar-old who takes the star part in "The Bugle Call," a brec?,y story of the open plains that opens at the Empire for a two night season to-night. As the boy whose mother had died three years before, he objects to his father marrying again, and refuses to ha\e anything to do with the new mother. But life on a military post in the early days of American b.'story was not all make-believe, and when his father was called away to quell the Indian rising the new mother was left in his charge. There is no sign of nervousness about his work. He is just the ordinarj wholesome boy, who is very indignant with the old sergeant for telling him that he cannot blow his bugle, and for revenge turns the whole post out on a false alarm. On the night of the wo* ding he leaves the crowd and goes away down to the stable to confide his worries to his pony and his pup. Despite tho fact that he is taking a star part, he is still only a boy, and lithe pet of the studio. Likewise he is a son of Willie Collier, the famous American comedian, who has lately join e4 the Triangle studios.