"MY FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY."

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17859, 3 August 1918, Page 11

"MY FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY."

The sensational disclosures made by tho Ainoricin Ambassador, Mr James W. Gerard, in his book " My Four Years in Germany," marked it as the most important and the irost authoritative publication en the war. Tho book has now been transferred to the rcreen, and constitutes a moving picture of gigantio proportions. It is said that no previous pioturo can compare with it for immensity and for tho sense of reality conveyed, while the interest which it arouses proves onco more that truth 'la not only stranger than fiction, but that it grips tho imagination moro strongly than tho most fascinating book. Tho film is a; revelation of what the moving pictures «aire capable of. No writton history could ever convey tho truth so effectively or so vividly as the kinema. can. It is said that tho variou* characters which, participate aro represented ■with such perfection that it requires a strong off or t to remember that they were screen actors and i.ot the ictual personagos. Tho First National Exhibitors of America, who brought tlio picturo to New Zealand, have secured for the Christchureh presentation tho two large theatres, Everybody's and tho Liberty, The first soreening will commenco at both theatres on Saturday, August 10, and ■will undoubtedly attract the samo phenomenal crowds that it did in America and Australia. In Melbourne, Sydney and Wellington the picturo ran for weeks to overflowing housos. The picture has been authorised by Ambassador Gerard and produced under his supervision. Further, every word and every scene in it is a true reproduction of absolute fact. 1 Tho film reveals as nothing] else could what the German menace really moans. .