THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 April 1917, Page 4

THE EMPIRE.

THE GREATEST PICTURE YET PRODUCED. BILLIE BURKE IN "PEGGY." , To-night will see the first icreening at the Empire of "Peggy," with Billie Burke in the title role, said to be the greatest picture ever screened in the Doininioii. Billie Burke's entry into tlus moving picture world has caused many of the recognised queens of the film to look to their laurels. Her winsome beauty is known in every large capital of the Old World, and hel* American Successes made her the talk of that whole continent. In this play, specially written for her debut, she had a fole which provides an opportunity for seeing every one of her alluring moods. Her sweet deviltry gets full expression in the scenes in the Scottish village, where she cures the loeal drunk by abstracting his glass and tormenting with such ,dire expressions as a grave's length nearef." and so on. Her resolute determination is seen when she faces the elders of the kirk who are sitting in judgment on a girl who has gone astray. Her delicious wink must' not be lost sight of, as it la one of the "highlights" in u bright series of incidents. Lovely Billie, with her riot of sunny copper-colored lmir; with her deep pansy-purple e.vaa Might with life and happiness, her 'cheeks, in which the color of a tea rose hides, and her mouth, like a warm scarlet rose, will d<». light the picture lovers of New Plymouth as they have never been delighted before.