AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 26 March 1928, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. MATINEE AND NIGHT, “MONS.” The memorable days of August and September, 1914. will live gloriously in history, but if the vivid and human side of the story of the Old Contemptibles has dimmed a little, “Mons,” the allBritish' production of Motro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which comes to the Opera House to-day (Monday) Matinee and night (Matinee commences at 2.45 p.m.) brings back as no other medium could, the memory of those fateful days. This picture should be seen by every man, woman and child in the Empire. Opening with the departure of th? British Expeditionary Forces for France, it moves on to the glorious Retreat. The screen reproduces Major Tom Bridges’ rally of the exhausted soldiers at St Quentin, where men almost too tired to take another step were led forward to the rat-a-tat-tat of a little toy drum. This has been filmed simply, without comment or sentimental emphasis, yet with a dramatic effect that will hold the most blase picture-goer in its spell. “Mons” was directed by Captain Walter Summers, D. 5.0., M.C., M.M., which accounts for its vivid genuineness— Summers being with the Old Contemptibles throughout the Retreat.