THE EMPIRE.
A SUPERB~BLiUE RIBBON FEATURE. "THE SINS OF THE MOTHERS." The feature of the new programme to bo screened at Jhe Empire to-night and to-morrow is the Vitagraph Blue Ribbon Company's stylishly staged society photo-play, "The Sins of the Mothers." The subject is artistically expressed, and embodies an attractive theme, with the leading roles interpreted by Earle Williams as the young husband, Julia Swayne Oordon as an inveterate gambler, who secretly conducts a society gambling house, and Anita Stewart as her daughter, who inherits her mother's insatiable craving for gambling. In ithe opening scenes the mother's reckless card-playing proclivities drive her husband to financial ruin and suiiide. To prevent her daughter becoming tainted with a desire for gambling, the widow places her in a convent. When grownup, the girls weds a young lawyer, who, to his horror, discovers that his wife quickly becomes overwhelmed by her fondness for gambling. The mothpr notes her daughter's weakness with tragic sorrow and remorse. The young lawyer does his utmost to wean his wife from her folly. Eventually he heads a' police raid on the gambling house, not knowing that his own wife is there, and a startling climax is reached when she is accidentally shot dead by the proprietor . T'horo is a riotously amusing Triangle two-reel comedy, "The Bathhouse Blunder," which evoked uncontrollable "laughter. "The Gaumont Graphic" is replete with interesting, illustrated war and other news, and there is also a picturesque travel film, involving a trip on Alpine lakes. There will be, a matinee performance to-morrow, at 2 p.m. ,
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1916, Page 7
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258THE EMPIRE. Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1916, Page 7
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