ENTERTAINMENTS.
LAST NIGHT OF SPORTING DRAMA AT THE EMPIRE. "They're Off," the splendid Triangle drama featuring Enid Bennett, will ibe screened for the last time to-night at the . Empire. This play is full of surprises and there is also included an almost incredibly taken horse race which (or thrilling suspense easily surpasses anything of the kind previously shown here. OLGA PETROVA TO-MORROW IN "MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY." To-morrow's change of pictures at the Empire will 6e headed bv another "Olga Petrova" triumph, entitled "More Truth than Poetry," a five-act Metro wonderplay of the unwritten law. This is another production written by the clever actress herself, and it presents a problem of vital importance to progressive men and women and raises a question in the mind that must bo answered. The force and power of the scenes will interest the men, and the star's superb costumes, and also the strong love element will charm the ladies.
OLGA PETROVA'S TRIUMPH. "BRIDGES BURNED'' AT EVERYEVERYBODY'S. The large audience at Everybody's last night wtis enraptured with the ! beauty and charm of Olgo Petrova's latest picture triumph, "Bridges Burn- ] ed." The story deals with Mlfry O'Brien, the daughter of an Irish gentleman of declining fortunes who meets Ernest Randal, the younger son of an English baronet. Mary's father is delighted with him, and invites him for a (leer hunt. A poacher, mistaking Randal's peaked hat for deer antlers, shoots him through the shoulder. Randal is taken to their home, where Mary nurses him. The young people fall in love with each other, and it is with difficulty that Randal forces himpelf to leave to complete his course in surgery. Mary has given her heart to him without reserve. After his departure, Norali, the trusted old family servant, suspects the truth about the girl. Mary confesses to her father, who is enraged, and orders Randal to marry her. Immediately after the wedding, however, she leaves without a word, not wishing to hold Randal to the consequences of a forced marriage. After her boy is born, Mary obtains employment in a cotton mill. Here she becomes the inspiration of the place, organizing for the welfare of the Uplift Club, which is cited all over Ireland as a model of its kind. She becomes known as oni' of the most progressive women in the country, and is promoted to a position of trust by her employer, O'Farrcl, who asks her to be his wife. She refuses to consider the possibility of divorcing her husband. Randal asks her to return to him. She refuses, pointing out | that while she has accomplished some good in the world, he has been wasting his life. Determined to earn her respect, lie goes away to war, O'Farrel, the mill-owner, also enlists, leaving Mary in command, and she looks after his interests during his absence. At olie front it falls to Randal to render first aid to O'Farrel, and to save him from Weeding to death. Randal in turn falls, and is reported killed. O'Farrel returns but Mary mourns her husband at last realizing what he means to her. A great joy eomes to her when she hears that Randal is alive, but temporarily blinded, and she goes to nurse him. O'Farrel, his last hope of marrying Mary gone, returns once more to the front. His men are enlisting by the hundreds, and closing the mill, he goes back at their head, saying that he has one good arm left, and is needed on the field. Re-united to her husband, whose sight is completely restored, life is now perfect for Mary. "Bridges Burned'' will be repeated to-night for the last time.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 May 1918, Page 2
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