AMUSEMENTS.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13975, 10 September 1917, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

TriE NEW DANDIES. Mr Edward Branscombe's latest com-j-iiii.v, "The New Dandies," who are announced to appear at the Opera House next Wednesday evening, are thus spoken of by the Auckland Star:— "The glad welcome accorocd to the New Orange Dandies indicated conclusively that the colourful company of musical comedy free lances who.practise modern minstrelsy under the banner of the Dandies have laid a sure spell on the hearts of the Auckland populace, And the Dandies' justified theineselves, so that the programme numbers eventually took second place in number to the encores. The newcomers have given a slightly new and taking twist to the stage setting and the costumes ordinarily identified with tho Dandies,' and 1 , as in the case of the performance, it merely adds a touch of distinction to their personality while omphasing the fact that they are a branch of the favourite family of entertainers. In the programme itself they provide what was, in effect, a nameless musical comedy, with all the best musical features of that entertainment and the accent on tho comedy, with the result that tho nudiciico were kept in an orange glow of laughter and applause from curtain to curtain." The Plan is at the Bristol. '.

lIAYWABD'S-PULLER'S PICTURES. Taken with the object of showing the truth about certain stages of the war, "War As,lt Really Is,"-theories of films to be screened at the Opera House to-night, is said to be totally different from all other war films. An official photographer to the French armies, Captain Donald Thompson, had unique opportunities of filming unique events, His daring became the talk of 'the front lines, and many of the scenes are taken only a short distance from the German lines, Shells can be seen bursting only a short distance from the camera, blotting the iview out with smoke, The famous "curtain of fire" can be seen driving thousands of Germans towards the French trenches 'to be made prisoners, The'armoured traiu views arc quite new, and are a tremendous revelation of the range, Q>f devices nml mechanism employed in the titanic struggle. The heaviest .'irl 1 !- lery struggle of Verdun is shown in vivid detail, with great guns of the Allies (the largest in tho world) in action, and armoured canal boats at work.