AMBASSADOR GERARD’S FILM.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 5002, 17 October 1918, Page 7

AMBASSADOR GERARD’S FILM.

“MY FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY.” In its review of this fine film, which is to be screened at the Opera House for five nights and three matinees, commencing at tho matinee on Tuesday next, the New Zealand Times of 27th July said:—“Ambassador James W. Gerard’s great book, ‘My Four Years in Germany,’ transformed into a great and compelling photo-drama, for such it really is, in fact, every word and every scene of it drew a crowded and most enthusiastic house to the King’s Theatre on Saturday night. Among those present were the Acting Prime Minister and Alin is ter for Defence (Sir James Allen), Lady Allen and' members of their family, Sir William Fraser (Minister for Public Works), tlie Hon. G. W. Russell (Minister for Public Health and Internal Affairs), Mrs. and Misses Russell, the Hon. T. M. Wilford (Minister for Justice), Surgeon-General Henderson (Director-General of , Medical Services), and a large number of Staff and other Army officers. The whole of the dress circle and very many of tlie stalls were booked before the doors opened, and long before 7 o’clock a long queue filled tho spacious vestibule to the stalls and stretched, not ‘four deep,’ but more like eight to ten deep right across the road and tho vacant land opposite the theatre. The screening was timed to begin at 7.45, and owing to the longbh of the film only one ses-' sion could ho given. From 7.15, by arrangement with the military authorities, the Trcntliam Brass ’Band played a rousing selection of Allied and patriotic airs outside the theatre, commencing very appropriately with the American National Anthem.”

“My Four Years in Germany,” hearing tho Trade imprint of the First National Exhibitors of America, endorsed by President Wilson, is an exact reproduction of Ambassador Gerard’s sensational kook of the same name, and tells the inside story of tlie war and the reality of the German menace in the manner so convincing that no one, having seen it, could still entertain tho least doubt of the absolute justice of the Allied cause. It was produced under the personal, supervision of Air. Gerard for the purpose, and still further revealing to the world the necessity for the defeat of Prussian military autocracy. The hard facts set out in the picture are stated to he more dramatic and gripping than the widest effusion ever could he; and in view of tlie present peace controversy it is decidedly a picture that should he seen by every man, woman, and child in the community. The box plan opens tomorrow morning at Miller’s Corner, and prudent patrons wil] doubtless reserve their seats.