ACADEMY THEATRE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXXI, Issue 9639, 25 June 1941, Page 3

ACADEMY THEATRE

CURRENT PROGRAMMES

Charles Cliauvel, famed producerdirector, used a huge location'setting among sweeping sand dunes on the south headland of Botany Bay for action scenes in his Australian Light Dorse film, "Forty Thousand Horsemen," to bo screened at, the Academy to-night. The famous Sinai Desert garrison village of 151 Arish was completely reconstructed, including minaret, mosque, wells, native market places, adobe huts, palm trees, and the crumbling wall which Napoleon erected many years before the arrival of the Diggers. The picture is said to be good, speedy, spectacular entertainment in some of the finest acting seen on the screen. It blends adventure, spy melodrama and romance into the great history of the Light Horse in Palestine in the last, war, and with astounding panoramas, it covers Egyptian cities, battles, desert manoeuvres, village life, and (lie final crashing charge of Beorsheba, which sets a new high for cold thrills. The picture is, of course, an Australian production. "Pastor Hall," to be screened at

the Academy Theatre to-morrow and on Friday night, is purely entertainment. It is fact presented as fiction; if presents the human problems of today. The locale is the Utile peaceful village of Alfdorf (Germany) fathered by a benevolenl pastor who rules the flock with kindness. When h" publicly protests against the rapidly

growing Nazi terrorism, he is thrown into a concentration camp, flu finally escapes and rather than individual fiocdom prefers to strive for the freedom of all. by making one last, appeal to a frightened little congregation on the Sabbath morning (hough death awaits him. The acting is excellent, with Wilfrid Lawson in the title role.