THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1916, Page 3

THE EMPIRE.

A GREAT HOLIDAY ATTRACTION. A picture full of strangely wonderful and sensational adventures will be prerented\oll the change of programme showing at fl'.e Empire New Year's night This i!ve-rrel production, starring "Mariste," the giant whose, feats of strength in Cabiria made him famous, tells the story of n giant's fight for fair plav for a young lady who is being deprived of the fortune which is to come to her There are some really vonder:ul exhibitions of athletic strength' performed in tli'. production which is* quite free, from any suspicion of faking, ,i'id moreover -.s not without, its comedy aspect, Maciste proves himself not only a veritable Samson of the kinema, but a clever actor as well. The producer has chosen men of the sinal! side to impersonate ihe villains; nevertheless iiie manner in which the giant ties them min bundl-;s together and carries them aonut like children, is quite remarkable, a' also is Hi; act in which he runs after a motorman going at fair rate, and lifts the,-chauffeur out of bis seat and takes hi?' place. Where he becomes the buti=r in the household of the chief villain "•ie cives <1 'lever impersonation. His soulirequet of "Marvellous Maciste" i a well earned in this picture. This extraordinary production will be screened for a three nlclits' season.