WORLD’S PICTURES.

Patea Mail, Volume XLIII, 1 August 1919, Page 2

WORLD’S PICTURES.

“THE BETTER ’OLE” To say that “The Better ’Ole” is England’s masterpiece of film production is no oxaggoartion. The play, made world-famous by the Bainisfather cartoons, has had u run of conspicuous success everywhere on account of its wonderful appeal to humanity at home, from humanity in the trenches, as represented by the symbolic characters, Alf, Bert and Old Bill, and all that they stand for. The film goes further than the play, it being easier to reproduce more faithfully the incidents depicted on the screen, where all nature is the stage, than in a theatre where production is limited by mechanical devices and imitations. The story, while being woven into the romance of Old Bill, is plentifully besprinkled with those wonderfully lifelike incidents of adversity which Bairnsfathcr so humourously depicted for the delectation of the whole world. While “The Better ’Ole” brings the tears of sympathy, unshamed, to the eyes, it also charms them away immediately with flashes of scintillating wit, like glistening dewdrops in the early sun rays. Box plan at Town Clerk’s office.