THE EMPIRE.
ENID BENNETT KT "TJTE PRINCESS OF THE DAKK."
Fnid Bennett, ft beautiful Australian girl, who has sprung into stardom at one leap, is the heroine of "The Princess of the Dark," the fine Triangle play screened at the Empire last night. The story is a wonderful one, full of quaint scenes and containing a pathetic and tragio love story. The heroine is blind and peoples a gloomy cabin, and the squalid town in which she lives with fairies and bandsome knights. She makes from the wealth of her imagination a well-beloved hero of a hunchback, who in her blindness she believes to be her fairy prince. To her comes disillusionment, as with the restoration of her sight she finds that the world and its folks is not the dream of beauty that she had thought. The setting of the play is extraordinary and the camera art' shown in the portraying of the crowds of pixies, gnomes, and magic creatures wnich inhabit the eavcrn, is almost miraculous. The cast is a good one, Jack Gilbert as the huiwhback being specially worthy of mention. Billie Burko appears in another chapter of Gloria's Romance and Charlie Chaplin in a laughable comedy, "The Woman."
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 July 1917, Page 7
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202THE EMPIRE. Taranaki Daily News, 31 July 1917, Page 7
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