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Observer, Volume XXXVII, Issue 49, 11 August 1917, Page 23

A representative of the Fox Film Corporation recently visited New Zealand, and in an interesting article which he wrote relative to the methods by which films are handled in the Dominion, appears the following: "New Zealand consists of two islands, of about 12 million population, lying 1200 miles off the East Coast of Australia." When Mr Fox saw twelve million New Zealanders he must have had a film before his eyes.

Over 27,000 people have each week seen the performances of "Seven Days' Leave," which has been running at the Lyceum, London, for over six months. This theatre has the largest holding capacity of any in London, and since the first night there has not been a, single spare seat in the house. All the critics, declare it to be the most remarkable play seen on the English stage, and Allan. Wilkie is quite confident that when it is staged at the Princess's Theatre in a few weeks' time it will take Melbourne by storm.

"Seven Days' Leave," the war play to be staged by Allan Wilkie at 'the termination of the present "Story of the Rosary" season, deals with an episode in the present war, and is said by people who have-seen it in London*to be a true picture of modern warfare. It is written so that all the humour is reflected as well as the tragedy of the battle field. Allan Wilkie will play Captain Terence. Fielding, R.H.A., and Frediswyde Hunter-Watts will appear as the Lady Mary Hether.