“REWI’S LAST STAND”

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 3 April 1926, Page 7

“REWI’S LAST STAND”

SCR EENING EOSITIV EL Y TO-NIGIIT Tlm producers of Itewi’s Last'Stand, in the advertising coin urns, contradictrumours that I hev would he unable lo show ,in Nelson, and they slate that despile variola difficulties met with here (bey are showing at the Marsden Church Hall li night Ibis splendid screen epic w hich has achieved such tcmarkablc sue cess els where. It will he accompanied by the usual elaborately-prepared tintsi cal score of Old English and Maori me. lodii'si lli'itl has been the feature of ils success elsewhere. The beautiful songs will lie sung hv Miss A mat a. Benson, of Auckland, and the musical score rendered In ail orchestra under the leadership of Mr J. Kearsley. The Marsdeu Ha'!! inis been ispeiial.lv prepared at considerable expense for the efficientscreening of this unusual drama of love and adventure during Lie Mno-ri wars. Some idea of the success of this “great, national and family entertainment'’ (as it was called by the, Rev. Liversedge, of Auckland) will lie gathered from the fact that the picture was screened six times a dav for live weeks at the Strand and Gr.tml Theatres in Auckland. Hi OhrisU-hnr'h at the matinees alone there were 1409 admissions a day. In Wanganui. on the last night of the film’s scrolling (in opnosit ion to Wirlh's Circus opening night) the crowd was so great that the management had to open the "upper shell"’ of the. big lI.M. Theatre for the first time on a week night in the history of the theatre Reserved seats for to-night's screening may be obtained at Marsden Hall,