"GLORIOUS NEW ZEALAND"

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18677, 28 April 1926, Page 7

"GLORIOUS NEW ZEALAND"

A POSITIVE REVELATION. On Monday next the first screening of the Dominion's first national picture, "Glorious New Zealand," will take place at the Liberty Theatre. This marks a new era in the country's development; it is an artistic achievement which will place New Zealand before the world, and what is more important, still will enable the citizens of this fair land to know their own country first. Wherever this picture has been shown the public have Bhowered enthusiasitc praise , upon it. Wonders are unfolded that in their sheer beauty might be incredulously turned aside as botanical impossibilities, yet these marvels of lakes and mountains, thermal regions and glaciers, are all crowded into the comparative: small space of the North and South Islands One'is taken On a comprehensive tour which extends from the tropic strands of coral-girted Samoa to the frozen wastes of Rossland; over on the Alps through the winter sports'; up to Russell, in the Bay of Islands, where the American novelist, Zane Grey, is seen playing the giant swordfishf down to Stewart Island, with its undisturbed panoramas; through the unexplored Urewera country, in parts of- which the pakeha has not yet been; through all .these scenes of our country "Glorious New Zealand takes one,' until all its beauty, its majesty, is indeliblv impressed upon the memory; Sir James Parr said that "the Dominion was destined to become the most popular tourist resort in the world," and when this magnificent scenic film is shown to the thousands in other ports, then surely the pleasureseekers will hasten to sec for themselves tWe splendours and marvels of God s Own Country." It is more than .a travelogue, more than an education picture, for intense interest is present in every foot, and a romantic appeal is not lost when one is a™™ the old sites of battles in the Maori Wars. The box plans open at Thn Bristol Piano Co. tomorrow. '