THE EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1917, Page 2

THE EMPIRE.

HLAST NIGHT OP ENID BENNETT. IN "THE LITTLE BROTHER."

Miss Enid Bennett, the chanting young actress who made such a great hit in the title role in "Princess of the Dark," appeared again last night at the Empiro as the heroine in "The Little Brother." She appears Iret as a slum girl in charge of a creche of distinctly dirty but very human and very amusing babies, and keeping house for two '•tough" newsboy 'brothers. They get tired of nothing but stew, and desert her, leaving "only a soap box for a home," and she in turn dons a pair of trousers Bhe has been mending for one of them, and takes to selling newspapers. How a rival news-vendor, chagrined at her too successful competition, essays to punch her head and catches a tartar; how the "newsboy" is taken up by a wealthy man interested in the "little brother" movement; how he sends the "boy" to a co-educational school, where (unknown to her benefactor) the inevitable contretemps results in her being transferred to the girls' side; how the news that the "little "brother" is a girl is broken to him; and how he is not Willing to have her for a little sister only, is extremely well told. "Gloria's Romance" has arrived at the penultimate stage, or thereabouts. Miss Billie Burke figures in a very interesting episode, "Her Vow Fulfilled," the murderer of "Gloria's" 16ver being hunted down and induced to confess his crime. This programme will be finally screened tonight. TO-MOBROW. A complete change of programme ■will be introduced to-morrow, the star attraction being a five reel Moss Frohjnann art drama, "A Man and The Woman," from Emile Zola's famous novel "Nantas."