THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1917, Page 6

THE EMPIRE.

•GEORGE WALSH IN THE BEAST."

A BIG MOTION PICTURE SUCCESS.

One of the finest picture dramas ever seen in the Dominion is the ilatterin" tribute that has been paid the brilliant lox feature -The Least" commencing 1 two night season (and one matinee) at the Empire to-night. The adventures 'f an Eastern heiress among the roiHi herdsmen of the West forms'thc opening basis of the story in which George Walsh and Anna Luther arc featured. Miss Luther i s the innocent little Eastern gul, who, on tour through the West with her father, falls in with Del Burton 'George Walsh) ; There are many ex■■iting episodes wherein he fights several terrific battles and some gun duels and then claims the girl, 'Then follows a r '.ries of thrilling incidents,, not the least of which is the attempts to cross the Colorado river on a wire rope, and later a tremendous battle with the raging flocd of the river, before the wild <• csierncr relents and takes the girl back to her father's party. Burton latet visits tiie East, in civilised attire and meets _ .Mildred again, but is not recognised in the costume of city life. The awakening comes when he appears at a masquerade ball in his western clothes announced as "The Beast." it .'•s a picture calculated to delight and tiirill the In: go bulk-of regular" picture natrons.