THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 February 1917, Page 2

THE EMPIRE.

•THE GOLDEN CHANCE."

WONDERFUL SMUTS BY DAY AND NIGHT IN "GREATER NEW YORK." Commencing a three-night season next Monday at the Empire a wonderful travel picture, ''Greater New York," will be screened, and should create a large amount of interest, for many phases of life are shown, from the landing of eniijrrants at Ellis Island to night life in A' " famous hotels; from laborers digjj! ; the subway to stockbrokers in Wall fs'rect; from a visit to the Metropolitan Bluseum to a holiday at Coney Inland, Magnificent, interesting, terrible in its [thousand different moods,, this great kit.y will be shown from one end to the lOther, taking in the millionaire splendour, a stone's throw from hideous ■qualor and vice; Fifth Avenue and 'ast Side, showing New York's abode of fashion, side by side with the quarter ?quare mile where the quarter of a mil,;on people of East Side are crowded in jilifiil poverty; mammoth German liners interned at the quays, and the illfated Lusitania leaving on her last voyage; the tajlest building in the world; Niew York's underworld, the famous Bowery, the abode of "the "toughs"; the Tombs Prison, Wall Street, and other sights. Added to this picture will be a clever Trianglo Keystone comedy, "Maid Mad," "Patfho Gazette," and "Views of Beautiful Spain." Seats for either night can now :be reserved at Collier's.

To grasp the skirts of golden chance is the fond ambition of many. Some Beek the opportunity, others have it thrust before them. This is the theme of the absorbing. drama, "The Golden Chance," which is to feature the programme at the Empire Theatre tonight. "The Golden Chance" achieves, the critics agree, a double success. In production, mounting, dressing, acting, in everything in fact that goes to make artistic perfection, this Lasky-Para-mount drama may be said to represent the last word in cinematography. In the brilliant work of Gee Ridgeley, a film actress who had previously done good work in minor parts, scores a dramatic success in the premier role. The story is worthy of the production. Mary Denby, the heroine of the play, is a humble dressmaker in the establishment of a fashionable modiste. Her husband is a drunken ruffianly ne'er-do-well. Mary is good-looking, refined and presentable. The hostess at a fashionable dinner party, disappointed in one of her guests, selects Mary for the vacant chair, and two unexpected -things happen—a millionaire falls in love with her, and the husband chooses that particular night, and that house for his burglarious enterprise. The husband is caught red-handed, but is allowed to escape on the truth being made known. Later he attempts to blackmail the millionaire, but in a sensational encounter with the police the villian is shot and Mary marries the millionaire, which is as it should be—a happy ending. The star film is supported by an interesting variety of topics, including the latest Pa the' War Gazette, "In Ancient Seville," a charming scenic, and comedies.