ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 4 August 1913, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"THE PANAMA CANAL."

OPERA HOUSE

TO-NIGHT.

Most people have read about the stupendous task which the Americans have few It J"* cr pHed at JPanMnl, bit tew, if any. have been able to erasn from what they have read anytLg fi? an adequate idea of ma gSJgs™ the work and the marvellous organisation of _ men and'machinery by which with \T S But the S Wn nif Zn°Vl- ng pi^ture cam^a has been all over it, and the result is a %;f series of films, which make it possible for patrons of the picture the* to see perhaps more1 than they thft SV bfe to see if they *™tSI the way to Panama to investigate for themselves. They will see man and the Sw' a suporhuman combination, 3£ "\ g M'lth c 9,, m Pa^tive ease the seemingly impossible. Above every! thing else, this enthralling picture is a revelation of the triumph of mechanical genius. Everywhere the machine in some m form is in evidence. Poweriul dredges of various types, each suited to its special task, enormous steam shovels shifting tons of earth and rock as easily as a man could lift a spadeful, great grabs literally swal- < lowing anything from three to ten tons t .at a time and keeping at it from day-" light until, dark: machines which mix-' concrete m wholesale quantities, and cranes which carry it by the truck load from the mixer to just where it is wanted—these are only some of the mechanical wonders which the picture m .actual operation. The Urban Company has provided many masterweees for the entertainment and edification of picture patrons, but for •=Jieer realism and for sterling educational value "The Panama Canal'ntands out in a class by itself. It is aii)lC^ ire -i J wl"en evei Tone, young and old should see, and local patrons may well be grateful to the management of the World's Picture for the enternnse displayed in procuring the picture tor Hawera. Patrons desiring good seats are advised to book early