THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 April 1917, Page 6

THE EMPIRE.

. A SWEET IRISH PHOTO-PLAY. " "THE MARRIAGE OF MQLLY-O." A delightful Irish picture play, "The Marriage of Molly-O," was shown for the first time at the Empire Tiieatre last night. Amongst the society and problem pictures we 1 are treated to these days it is refreshing to come across such Mi original and wholesome picture as this. The Triangle Company, the producers, are to be congratulated on the fact that the picture is no Americanised version of Irish life, but so true to detail, so redolent of the "Ould Sod," that it should delight the heart of any son or daughter of Erin who pees it. Molly is a pretty little Irish colleen who fives in a humble little country cottage with her mother.- Their sole possessions are a fine fat pig and a cow, to naturally Molly and her mother have to. scrape all they can to make ends meet. One day, when Molly is of the age that she begins to notice the "min," comes across a happy gossoon driving a jaunting car. He gives Molly a lift, and in the course of conversation he tells her he is a "jarvey." Molly goes back to her thatched cottage cherishing In her heart memories of the jarvey. Next day Molly is still thinking of the jarvey, and invokes a charm which consists of placing the peei of an apple, in the cow's manger, murmuring as she does so, "Holy Mary and St. Anne, send me a man as quick as you can." Molly adds: "And if it's the same to you I'd rather it be a jarvey." Instead of the jarvey the agent's son appears on the scene, and endeavors to win Molly's heart. Molly nearly succumbs, and it is the resulting encounter between the jarvey and the agent's son that makes the picture so-exciting. Molly eventually marries the jarvey, who turns out to be Sir Laurence O'Dea, the landlord, 60 needless to say Molly and her mother end their days' happily. Incidental to the. picture are introduced interesting and amusing scenes at an Irish fair. The supporting subjects include an extraordinary and ludicrous Keystone farce. To-night will be the last occasion on which this programme will be screened.