THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 June 1917, Page 2

THE EMPIRE.

"HER NEW YORK" . Gladys Hulette, one of America's 1 famous motion picture beauties, is featured in "Her New York," the principal item of the change of programme at the Empire to-night This, play is toy Gladys Johnston who has made a name for herself for creating plots that really have new ideas in them. In "Her New York" the heroine is a country girl who watches the city-bound trains in every day and dreams of the wonderful far away city. There she meets Philip and when the egg money has mounted up enough she runs off to meet and marry him. They arc madly happy for a while, and Philip's employer takes a fancy to the little heroine, and spins a web of black intrigue about Philip which nearly encompasses his destruction. Gladys Hulette is an adorable heroine, her pretty face and girlish charms smiting exactly the character of her role. The film has many quaint and original scenes, the farmyard photography keing quite unique. Another set of wonderful scenes is the succession <of peeps from the upper storeys of a skyscraper at the traffic in the avenues far below. The supports include a "Gaumont Graphic," a comedy and an industrial picture, "The Herring Industry."