THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 July 1917, Page 7

THE EMPIRE.

i:XID BENNETT IN "THE PRINCESS OF THE DARK." ' Enid Bennett, a beautiful Australian jrirl, v.ljo has sprung into stardom at one leap, is tho heroine of "The Princess 01" the Dark," the fine Triangle pUy to be screened at the Empire to-night. The story is a wonderful one, full of quaint scenes and containing a pathetic and tragic love, story. The heroine is blind and peoples a gloomy cabin, and the squalid town in which she lives with fairies and handsome 'knights, She makc9 from the wealth of her imagination a well-beloved hero of a hunchback, who in her blindness she believes to be her dairy prince. With the restoration of her sight, she finds tkat the world and its folks are not the dream of beauty that sho had thought. The setting of the play is extraordinary, and tho camera art shown in the portraying of the crowds of p'rxies, gnomes, and magic creatures which inhabit the cavern. is almost miraculous. The cast i 3 a good one, Jack Gilbert, as the hunchback being specially worthy of mention. Billie Burke appears in a further episide of "Gloria's Romance" entitled "The Murdered at Bay." There is also a Charlie Chaplin comedy, "The Woman" and the ever-popuiar J'athe Gazette.