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EVERYBODY'S. 'lSst NIGHT OF ALICE BRADY IX "THE DIVORCE CASE." ''You must commit some trifling indis- ; cretion," says the crafty old moneylender who is ready for anything at all that W'll enable the young couple to get divorced so that he can secure his money. So the heroine of ''The Divorce Game'' does take one foolish step, and its consequences are terribly serious. In the production Alice Brady has a thoroughly charming role. The'cast deserves special mention, Marie Lavarre, as 'Fid', Tieing very alluring and looking quite able to cause all the deadly mischief that she does as the. one-time object of the young husband's affections. Chapter 10 of "The Iron Claw," entitled "A Living Death." is just as sensational as the previous episodes. To-night is the final screening of this programme. TO-MORROW—ANITA STEWART IN "THE MORE EXCELLENT WAY." CyriK Townsend Brady's fine storv, "Tim More Excellent Way" has been put into motion picture by the Greater Vitagraph Company and with Anita Stewart and Charles Richman in the leading roles will be the chief attraction on the new programme which commences a threenight season to-morrow. /
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS AT THE EMPIRE. "THE HABIT OF HAPPINESS."' ~ Douglas Fairbanks as the son of a man ''who had so little sense of humor that he spent all his life amassing a fortune" is in a typical rolo as Sammy Wiggins in "The Habit of Happiness'" now screening at The Empire. The story starts* off with a rush. Sammy has collected the strangest circle of Bowery deadbeate and whjrls them down to breakfast after stampeding them all into the unpleasant job of having a bath. Then he opens a "Primary Class in Laughing" at a slum refuge, and meets with great success. He has a most ingenious system of physical exercises, and these catch on. His success brings him an appointment to Jonathan Pepper, a grouchy old millionaire who suffers from indigestion and lack of humor. Sammy pushes into the murky gloom of this old man's household and upsets the whole settled arrangements in no time. He rushes the old man off up to his bedroom and locks him in, to eventually starve till lie develops an appetite The story takes a grim surprise twist just here, and one of the Fairbanks rough and tumble fights takes place, ending up with Doug, entrenched on the stairhead, holding off a small armv of roughs down below. Dorothy West, a charming Triangle girl is the heroine, and is one of the best of the long line of Fairbanks leading ladies. Thc play i s the hest vet of She "King of Clear' Cut Comedv " The third episode of "The Secret Kingdom'' is also included on this programme which will he repeated again to-night and tomorrow.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1918, Page 3
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