THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 February 1917, Page 2

THE EMPIRE.

4N EDUCATIONAL TREAT "GREATER MEW YORK." The Empire Theatre management will introduce to tlie public next Monday night a star feature picture of intense interest, "Greater Mew York" by night •ml day. Life in this great metropolitan city is finite different from anywhere else. They work hard and then ■>l«y hard; everything goes in a whirl J'rom the opening of business to the -lose of the carbaret show in the earlv 'tours of the morning. Thousands of ■iboplc travel thousands of miles to see I 'hat will 'be shown at the Empire nicatro next Monday. If a man tours ! ' " city for a month he could not see •«»>(. for these pictures have "been "bought' 'at enormou9 risk and expense. 1 .ally in and around the "slumming" 'inrters. The business part of New York city is built on about three square lilcs of solid rock foundation. It has hereforc been necessary to go upwards n the form of towering skyscrapers to 'i space, the island of Manhattan, on • bich New York is built, being barelv lie mile across in the city and bounded i'i both sides by water. From the top of the Walworth Building, forty-three storeys high (970 feet) a wonderful sight i? witnessed in the pictures. Then is shown the up town life and residential portion, where wealth abounds; next' down town and life there. Every phase of life, the gaiety of »ociety, poverty and wealth, are fully dealt with, and will prove most interesting, especially to those Who have been in the hub of the American universe. The clever Tri-angle-Keystone comedy "Maid Mad," the "Pathe Gazette'' »nd some brilliant! views of Spain combine to make another programme typical of the Empire standard. Sjeats may be reserved at : Collier's. 1 "THE GOLDEN CHANCE." Splendidly mounted, and artistically perfect in production and acting, "The Golden Chance," now being shown at the Empire Theatre, has drawn many to visit the theatre more than once for the pure enjoyment of its quality. The story is highly dramatic and abounds in unexpected climax. The pretty wife of a drunken waster is forced to earn her living as a dressmaker at a fashionable modiste's. She is good looking and refined, and is selected by a hostess of the idle rich to fill a vacant chair at a dinner party. A millionaire falls in love, with her, and that very evening her husband breaks into the house and, caught redhanded, eees his wife there. He attemps to blackmail the millionaire, but is shot by the police, and his wife is claimed by her new admirer as his wife. It is not so much the story of the film as the way in which it is produced and acte<| that captivates. The supporting items are gqod and include "Pathe War Gazette," "In Ancient Spain," and "S6a Dogs," a rippling comedy. This programme will be repeated again to-night and to-morrow night. A special programme will be presented at the matinee on Saturday .