ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 10 January 1916, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

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. - 'Everybody V to-night will screen "From Headquarters"—a film which has thrilled , its audiences throughout Australasia. This magnificent photoplay exhibits some superb acting by Anita Stewart, the famous Vitagraph dramatic star, Earle Williams, a favorite actor, and a picked caste'of-notable stars, in its 3000 feet of stirring human eunotions. It is a ptey which has been written with evident sincerity for the purpose of exposing the injustice of that social law which in the punishment of sins of sex, ;is harder on the woman than on the man, and is harder on the poor than on the rich. It is a powerfully constructed drama, built around a simple plot, affording abundant opportunities for magnificent acting. The action is rapid, and the situations art? of the heart-moving description. The other items will include "An African Hunt," a very amusing set of animated cartoons, a Topical Gazette, Gaumont's Graphic, ''Applied Romance." hy the Beauty, Company, "Peter the Portrait Painter," £nd an industrial film. Tho plan; is at tEe Theatre. ' - ' ■ ■%'

While it is desirable that there should be no slackening of effort in regardVto the prosecution of the war, we niay yet take heart from1 the assurances, of leading military men that all is. apparently well with the operations', of the Allies, most especially on the western front. One who has just come to New Zealand has informed a representative of ■ the Auckland Star that the opinion is held "in high military circles that the forces and equipment of the French, Belgians, and British are now equal to the "big push." And once this is started there is expected to be no slackening until the armies of the Kaiser are properly on the run. Our informant stages that, the appointment of Sir Douglas Haig as Commander-ip-Chief of the Biitish force is viewed with great satisfaction, because hfe is recognised as the natural leadei* by reason of his great natural ability. Viscount French is esteemed as highly as ever, but it is1 felt that the time has probably come for him to make way. for a, younger man. With regard to (General Joffre, the supremo commander, there is only one opinion, namely, that the resourceful Frenchman is the outstanding general of "the war.! 'The Germans," added our informant, "have nothing like him. He is the, military genius of the age."