THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 July 1917, Page 7

THE EMPIRE.

SPECIAL MATINEE PROGRAMME TO-DAY. BIG "FOX" COMEDY. To-day at 2 o'clock a special children's programme will be presented at the Empire. The star attraction is the screaming "Fox" two-reel comedy entitled "Brainstorm." This film is easily the flutnniest, and at the same time the cleverest production yet seen here. All the famous Keystone and Paramount productions pale into insignificance when compared with this screaming faTce. It is funny beyond words, clever fun, and it has the advantage of entirely now ideas in production. Money is certainly no object with the "Fox" director, for quite a fortune must have been expended in securing many of the scenes in "Brainstorm." Burning down half a dozen oil derricks and smashing up handsome dwellings appear quite small items of the staging of this film. In addition to the undoubted "draw" of 'brainstorm" there will be presented a great Triangle dramatic feature entitled "The Bad Boy," which will suit the juveniles admirably, telling as it does a story of the "Boy who just couldn't be good." Bobbie Harron as the "bad boy," and Mildred Harris as the "good girl" appear to great advantage and add fresh laurels to their growing popularity, "The Gaumont War Graphic" 'will also be shown. TO-NIGHT. At eight o'clock to-night the programme will include, amongst others, "The Bad Boy" (Triangle star drama), "Gaumont War Graphic" (topical), "Whaling Industry of New Zealand" (educational) and "His Conscious Conscience," a rare Vitagraph comedy starring Hughie Mack.