A MOVING PICTURE
- NKWS OF A SOLDIER SOX. Moving pictures brought iui to the heart of om- mother in Auckland this week, says the Auekkusd "St:?r." The good dame's only hoy went away from .New Zealand w :>Ji the Main Expeditionary Foree. Letters were frequently received up lili the tunc when the Xew w -,. U f to Gfilliuoli. Then wewry weeks ,ir:(i months passed. with never ;i word from the soldier sen. The mother eouid get no news of bin; through oJlieiai channel"., and .-die lias for some time been in # state of despair. 'J'hen. tin's week a friend approached her with the joyful intelligence flint her son ikured amongst groups of voundeu iao» i\bo-e picture's were hei'ig shown at. ;i Queen Street continuous pie; lire thranv. For three days the mother lias .«pi-in Ion:; hours ill the theatre, pairing i"r the film to come round a;rniu, in order thai, she may least her eyes on "the siV.M o» the missing hoy. Ho has evidently been badly battered, for when the picture was taken lie was slid swathed it) bandages—but ho was thore, and ahve, and that to the mother is pneious news indeed. The picture finished its run m due course, but. the manager kindly cut the, iilm, taking out that poll ion which conveyed the picture so dear to the mother's" bearf., and this has been
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11510, 5 October 1915, Page 5
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228A MOVING PICTURE Star (Christchurch), Issue 11510, 5 October 1915, Page 5
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