THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 July 1917, Page 2

THE EMPIRE.

SPECIAL MATINEE PROGRAMME TODAY. - The kiddies will be delighted with the matinee programme allowing at the Empire this afternoon. The chief attraction is a thrilling trick picture, "A Trip to the Pole," full of humor and interesting happenings on one of tile most wonderful trips unrecorded. Then there is the side-splitting Fox comedy, "Her Father's Station," and the Charlie Chaplin scream, "The Woman." each two thousand feet in length with a laugh to the foot. The rest of the programme is made up from the "Gaumont Graphic," "Winter Sports in 'Europe'" and a cowboy film, "The New Ranch Foreman."

TO-NIGHT—"ALADDIN FROM BROADWAY" AND CHARLIE CHAPLIN. Edith Storey and Antonio Moreno will appear for the* last time to-night in this popular Blue Ribbon feature. The scenes amid which the action of the play takes place range from Broadway to Armenia, and from Mecca to Damascus and Babylon, with tho Arabian desert thrown in; and the plot, which is wonderfully well worked out, includes a massacre of Armenian Christians by the Turks, the selling into slavery of the Armenian women, scenes on a pilgrimage to Mecca, a couple of Mohammedan weddings, an exciting chase across tho desert, and numerous other episodes of a strong character. The plot hinges on a wager in a Broadway club and on a passage in the Koran which provides that a Mohammedan may divorce his wife simply by declaring three times in the presence'of witnesses, "I divorce you," but he cannot remarry his divorced wife unless she first marries a second husband and is divorced by him also. How the connection between the wager 'and the passago in the Koran is how a young Broadway swell., visiting to the Fur East in accordance with his wager, becomes unwillingly the -willing husband of a beautiful Armenian girl who yet proves to be the daughter of the man with whom he made the bet, makes i very thrilling tale. Charlie Chaplin appears on fliis programme in a comedv scream entitled "The Woman."