NEW PICTURES, OPUNAKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1932, Page 11

NEW PICTURES, OPUNAKE.

“ALL QUIET ON WESTERN FRONT.”

“All Quiet on the Western Front,” that great war picture which has created a furore wherever shown and will never be forgotten by those who see it, is to be screened on Thursday night for one night only in the New Theatre, Opunake, and appropriately enough, in aid of the local branch of the Returned Soldiers’ Association. The story of “All Quiet on the Western Front’ is poignant in its simplicity. It is the story of Paul Baumer, transformed from a school boy in a German village to a soldier in the trenches of the Great War. Before he had begun to live all that makes life worth living has been snatched away. He is tortured by brutal discipline'. He learns the uttermost meaning of privations and pains- of the body, and the more awful sufferings of the soul. One by one, he sees his comrades wounded or slain. He goes home for a brief visit and finds that even his home and his loved ones have changed in his eyes. He is a stranger in the bosom of his family, seeing himself at- last as a member of a lost geneiation o youth that has never been allowed to live. There are- other moments, the poignant episode of the French gn Is, the deep meaning of comradeship forged and riveted.in the flames of hell; t. e primitive values of food and drink and shelter in an existence from which all security has been swept away.. As is box plan is already filling intending patrons would be well advised eithei o book at L. Des Forges’ or ring No. 1.