AMUSEMENTS
LYCEUM TONIGHT. “ZEEBRUGGE.” “Zeebrugge,” the only picture yet produced under the patronage of His Majesty the King, will commence its Whangarei season at the Lyceum Theatre tonight. The picture was produced with the help of the Admiralty, which lent official documents and gave every possible assistance. It will be shown throughout New Zealand under the auspices of the New Zealand Navy League, and it has received the approval of the Auckland Education Board. Modern Britons are apt at times to think of Drake and his legalised pirates as being wonderful heroes when they read of their hand-to-hand battles with their . enemy, their glowing deeds and their thrilling escapes. There is a modern parallel to this naval hero of old, and where he singed the beard of the King of Spain, Sir Roger Keys, on the night of St. George’s Day, 1918, singed the pointed ends of the Kaiser’s moustache since the Kaiser had no beard to singe. No hero of old took such risks as this intrepid band of 2000 hardheaded, devil-may-care volunteers, who went in on that memorable night in the face of every known projectile in the war, and the whole story is said to have been reproduced with remarkable realism. 563
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Northern Advocate, 29 September 1926, Page 4
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