MR. AMERY'S TOUR

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 9

MR. AMERY'S TOUR

MOVING PICTURE RECORD SOME AMUSING INCIDENTS (From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 18th April. Captain W. Brass accompanied Mr. Amery on his recent tour of the Dominions. A week before they started he bought a hand cinematograph camera, and this he used io some purpose during his travels. His own pictures, combined with a certain number which he obtained from local sources, have made an excellent film illustrating the Dominion Secretary's tour. This was shown to a number of invited ' guests of the New Cinema, Eegent street. Taken as a whole, the pictures are most satisfactory, and the series make a two hours' diversion that splendidly illuminates the great variety and intensely human side of Empire interests. One notes how shy Mr. Amery always appears when he is required to pose as the "star" turn. His w,holo attitude in such scenes seems to be an instruction to the photographer to get it over quickly. There is inevitably much of Mr. Amory in.the film, but not too much. Great numbers of the pictures are of what the Dominions Secretary himself saw, as well as of the incidents in which he was the central figure. ; Some of the incidents are most amusing. Mr. Amery appears to have tried his hand at many things. Ho bound a sheaf of corn in an Australian harvest field. He drove'a three-horse team pulling a reaper. He took the stilts of a plough, and did a furrow in, the eyes of an audience roaring with jolly laughtor at his effort. One gathers from the film.something of the strenuous time spent by the Dominions Secretary and his'wife—for Mrs. Amery, too/ is in many of the pictures. Tho pictures show how friendly were the relations a Minister of the Crown established with all manner of people he encountered, from statesmen to Afri,can blacks, from fashionablo folk on the Melbourne racocourso to shy Australian aborigines in primitive villages. Best of all, perhaps, are tho pictures depicting the contrasts and tho progress of overseas industrial enterprises, from superb engineering works whoso equipments equal any in the Homo country to back wood settlements where young folk from England aro making a now start in life from tho foundations of the soil. Mr. Amery, of course, saw the sources of many of Britain's food supplies, including the orange groves of South Africa and the dairying of New Zealand. Some of tho films—of tho "Victoria Palls in South Africa, of tho hot springs of Now Zealand, and of the muchphotographed Niagara, .for instance— roach a very high standard.