THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1917, Page 3

THE EMPIRE.

"WICKED NEW YORK." A THRILLING DRAMA.

The sensational and dramatic five-act Hold Rooster film, "Wicked New York,'' features the new programme screened at the Empire last night. The plot is on familiar lines, and is developed in a conventional way, but what marks it with the stamp of greatness is photodramatisation, the quality of the production, and the acting. As a wellknown reviewer remarked, "It is difficult to decide whether the production or the acting is the paramount achievement, for both are all they should be, and arc diftlv combined in a telling and convincing whole. The fine artistic emotionalism of Florence Reed finds free scope for display, and fires the spirit of the play with a fervid glow, supported by a strong caste, and with a background faithful to locality, the undertow in the boiling, bubbling maelstrom of life in the world's most amazing city depicts with wonderful realism 'the colossal flame that attracts and destroys its human moths in countless thousands." Supporting the premier attraction is a good gc,lection of various topics. MATINEE TO-MORROW. A special programme will bo screened at the matineee to-morrow, including comedy and industrial pictures, and the "cowboy" picture so dear to the heart of all the kiddies.