AMUSEMENTS.
PEOPLE'S PICTURES,
A William Fox feature will head the new programme at the Theatre Royal to-night. It is a drama of unjust, persecution, entitled "A Wife's Sacrifice," and features Robert Mantell, who in this production hits the peak of film art. Genevieve Hamper, a charming Fox beauty, and other stars of notabilitv, including the wonderful little Jane" Lee, a five-year-old child Btar known the world over for her wonderful acting. The story deals with a wife, who. to shield her scapegrace brother, forgets her good name, expels herself from society, tarnishes her honour, loses her husband, and makes of herself a shamed creature. The plot and production mark clearly how intrigue may return to harm the conspirators as well as illustrate the needless sufferings they cause. A Fox comedy, "A Bon-Ton Riot," featuring the bashful-eyed comedian, ■■ Hank Mann, is also included in the programme.
EMPIRE THEATRE. "BIRTH OF A NATION." This great feature play, one of D. WGriffith's marvellous productions, will be s!Town at the Empire Theatre, on this evening, when you will see, by the aid of its titanic magic, the interplay and whirlwind action of the forces wnich operated to make our Great New Ally -a nation, one • <lnc\ indivisible. You will realise what the patriotic American means.when he speaks proudly of "the spirit of '61," that invincible grandear of souli which emerged from the dark turmoil of those days. You will get a fresh vision of the resources both of treasure and of the spirit which are owned by this great English speaking comrade nation, and you will be able to measure the error which Germany has made in under-estimating and floutins- such a nation; and you willsee a "film drama which has taken the whole world by storm. It is history vitalised; history by lightning-flash and a master work of film-craft for all time. This will be shown at the Empire Theatre this evening, when all who see it will marvel at the greatness of the picture which has been produced by the master mind of D. W. Griffith.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume L, Issue 175, 23 October 1917, Page 8
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