AMUSEMENTS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14140, 17 July 1916, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

PERMANENT PICTURES.

Large and appreciative audiences attended, both matinee and evening shows at the Empire Theatre on Saturday. The programme," which will be repeated to-night, contains some splendid examples of cinema art. The best of a very even lot is perhaps the Vitagraph star, "The Awakening," featuring Anita Stewart and Earle Williams. Tho story tells how Thane, a wealthy arid prominent surgeon, is brought jto a realisation of the' temperament one! character of the girl whom he is about" to marry;' Despite her high social position, the total lack of interest she displays in his life's ambition is brought home to him all the more forcibly by the enthusiasm and delighted.. encouragement given him by Jo, a beautiful girl of the tenements. After emerging victorious from a fight with death, he learns that his life's happiness ;iwait.<s him in the unselfish whole-hearted love of the girl who was willing to risk her life for his. The supporting items include a thrilling Thanhouser drama, "Reincarnation/ featuring Florence la Badie, some fine scenic and topical films, amusing comedies, and the latest Gaumont Graphic.