AMUSEMENTS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13997, 29 January 1916, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

PERMANENT PICTURES.

At the Eii'piro. Theatre to-nighfc' there will be screened'a picture -ofc the most thrilling-interest, to all New Zealandors. T)us is the official recruiting film taken in Australia by permission of the Minister of Defe-nee and with 1 the wlio'o-hcarted co-operation of tin.naval and ??jilitary forces. A bugle sounded, and a thousand soldiers dashed over a strip of land into ilic enemy trenches and then up the hills to the accompaniment of the rattlo of machine guns and the ioar of artillery, in^just the seme manner as did their mates at the Dardanelles, on the morning of the gallant landing at Gaba, Tepe. A battery of motion picture cameras followed • the charge. Indeed, the, black boxes mounted on tripods were the spectators' only proof that a motion picture, and not an actual war, was in. progress on a strip of coastline not far from Sydney. Mr Pearcc, Minister for Defence in AuAta-alin, speaking of tlris picture, said l'lt is a magnicfient picture, and the result amply justified me in giving authority fo.* it to bo produced. Its importance as a recruiting factor cannot be exaggerated. I hope it will be shown everywhere, and I am confident it will prove of immense aid in obtaining recruits." At. the niatineo this afternoon the :"€Jhildren of the Circus" ■ programme will bo ■ ocreeni-d, and the usual prices wall be charged—adults Gd* children 3d. Motiueka will.be visited to-night. |