AMUSEMENTS.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13857, 18 April 1917, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

HATWARDS-FULLER'S PICTURES,

The screen version of George Barr McCutcheon's dolightful book "Nedra" will be shown at tlio Opera House tonight. ''The story is unfolded in five reels, each 'of a thousand feet, and every foot sparkles with life and vitality, Grace Vernon and her fiance arc both bored to death with many schemes for their entertainment on the evo of their wedding. In order to escape the giddy round they decide to elope at a very early hour. They are seen by the police and are taken for burglars, They eventually get away 011 an ocean liner which gets wrecked,, Graco is saved by an unknown person, and her fiance saves a lady named Lady Kenny. These two are'washed ashore on an island, where the savages take them for white gods. After many exciting adventures they fall in love and are rescued by a passing ship, The fiance goes home to find Grace married to another man.' He then rushes off to Lady Kenny, and, as she has lost her husband, lie proposes that they link themselves together, which they do. The scenes showing life among: the blacks on the island are very well carried out and the fighting between the rieal tribes is realistic in the extreme. The proilucei-; ijsed several hundred African blacks in-this portion of the picture and it, must have taken many weeks of hard, schooling to get -them :to- act for' the camera as well ris they do. "Nedm" will; prove an entertaining picture.' v