"OUR NAVY."

Evening Star, Issue 11675, 6 February 1902, Page 4

"OUR NAVY."

The pictorial entertainment illustrative of " Our Navy" has caught on in Dunedin, and last night there 'was again a large attendance. The modern fighting ship in ungraceful not to say ugly by comparison with the old sailing vessel that won for our country the mastery of the sea, and now that the whole fabric is of iron the handsome auxiliary screw vessels of which the Galatea was a good example are being pushed out of service, to the further loss of the picruresaueness that we used to delight in. . Still the Navy is a fascinating subject, and the public are hungry for all the reliable information concerning our first line of defence, so that a show of the kind brought by Mr C. Macmahon, which really deals with fact, is sore ot appreciation in any part of the Empire. The merits of the pictures are obvious and need no argument. If there is a suspicion that two or three are "faked" for pictorial purposes, the great bulk of the scenes are manifestly genuine, and all of them are clear and impressive, whilst one or two of the best, notably that which shows the torpedo boats at full speed and the view of the heaving of the lead at sea, are full of artistic detail. The weak point of the show is the lecture.. It would pay the management to have this rewritten and made bright and instructive. If this is done we predict a long life for tlie entertainment. On Friday evening the show moves to the Alhambra Theatre, and there it will have the advantage of the electric light.