SYDENHAM PICTURES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11755, 20 July 1916, Page 5

SYDENHAM PICTURES.

"CABIRIA." There was a world war away back fa the beginning of history—in the third century before Christ. The world was then bounded by the Mediterranean Sea, and two great Powers strove for its masterv, while all the rest supported one or "the others. Carthage, rich, mighty, armed with all the resources of science and wizardry, equipped with a mighty army, a great war chief, and the will-to-power, determined to sweep Rome from the headship of the world and the overlordship of the sea. Tn© famous Punic wars followed, which ended in the complete overthrow and destruction of Carthage, the ancient counterpart of modern Germany, and the triumph of Rome, which then stood where Great Britain stands now. It is not a little curious that while events in Europe were bringing about' a second clash of rival empires, a second struggle for the headship of tha world, there should have been in preparation in Italy a mammoth picture play depicting in all its grandeur and all 'its horrors that first mighty struggle which took place three hundred years before the dawn of Christianity. This great picture. " Cabiria," will be screened at the Sydenham Theatre. The box plan is open at Holcroft's.