ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 318, 6 July 1912, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

- EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE. "LEAD KINDLY LIGHT." There will be a complete new selection of pictures presented at tlie matinee today, including two star films. "Lead Kindly Light" (Edison) and "The Handicap" (Lubin). The first-named is adapted from the well-known hymn by Cardinal Newman, and introduces Nellie Gray, a sweet maiden of sixteen, sur-. rounded with all the care of a dear oldfashioned home and a mother and father who worship her. Unused to the. ways of the world, she steals away from choir practice one evening to take an auto ride to the big city with a salesman who has come to town. Eager-eyed and wonder-marvelling', she is induced to take supper at one of the gilded cafes of a. great city, where the bright lights glitter and fascinate the unaccustomed stranger. Here in this heated atmosphere her companion endeavors to persuade her to take her first glass of champagne. In her ■weakness she tries to resist his persistent pleadings, but at last yields to his demand. Opposite her sits a woman of the world into whose soul, at the sight of this young girl, has crept the memory of all she has lost, and ere the tempting glass reaches her lips, this frailer sister has knocked it from her hand. Lightly turning the accident into a joke she succeeds in getting her companion away for a moment, and with all the compassion of a woman of the world to her purer sister, she gets little Nellie dray home and safe into her mother's arms. Something has been awakened in the woman's soul, crying for the better, purer things of life. Along the street in the darkness she comes, hopeless, alone. Across her path steals a stream of light from the open doors of the city church and its "kindly light" leads her to the. better and purer life. The pathos is beautiful, and the maudlin entirely absent.