THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1917, Page 2

THE EMPIRE.

"TO HAVE AND To'HOLD" TO-NIGHT

A five-part Lasky drama, "To Have and to Hold," will be presented for the 'first tune at the Empire Theatre ton.'ght. In this play, adapted from Mary Johnson's novel of the same name a new screen star, Mae Murray, will l Je seen associated with Wallace Roid. The. story deals mainly with the troubles of L-dy Jocelyn Leigh, a ward of Kins •'ami's the First of England, who is ordered by His Majesty to marry his dissolute favorite, Lord Carnal. When Lady .Tocelvn hear; this she is heart-broken, and bribes her maid, who is going to Virginia with "Sir Edwin's Doves," to give her the papers, so that she may go in the maid's place. In Virginia she is rescued from ft ruffian by Captain Ralph Percy, a gentleman adventurer, whom she. marries for the sake of his protection. After many dangers, thrillingly depicted, .Torelyn finds that- she has come to respect nnd adore her husband, rind that he has fallen madly in love with her, so when they find they are free to live happily they both confess their love. Excellent supporting numbers will be screened. "THE DlvWy OF MOTHERHOOD." : COMING NEXT MONDAY, ■"

A well-known classic writer quoted the immortal remark that there were three ivords only in the English language, and they were "Mother, Home and Heaven/ It might well have been that the story of "The Miracle of Life" or the "Divinity of Motherhood" had been woven round this pronouncement, for it is certain that no picture has caused more interest and more complimentary criticism than the film that is to be shown at the Empire Theatre next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday; Briefly it is the story of a woman who preferred the vortex of pleasure to the joys of materniay, ano. who found out as the years went by that she had, sacrificed the larger for the lesser and that while other mothers were living a life of happiness with their growing little ones, she was (loomed to the barrenness of a lonely desolation. The theme in delicately treated and the incidental effects are said to be of a most charming nature. They include a number of exceptionally, pretty child effects, showing the gathering of tncbabies from the flower beds, the old gooseberry bushes under which every baby has been found since "Adam delved and Eve sang." BILLIE. BURKE. \ An added attraction to the. programme will be the appearance of the most popular of all motion picture actresses. "Billie" Burke in the first adventure of "Gloria's Romance," a picture showing a series of happenings in Gloria's life, the love story of a eirl's youth, womanhood, and mating. It is a beautiful and enthralling story, written by "lr. and Mrs. Rupert Hughes.