ENTERTAINMENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13268, 25 August 1916, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE KINGS. To-night marks the final performance of the pieturisation of John Strange Winter's charming novel, "Bootle's Baby." 'lhe story is well-known, so consequently it has attracted very large audiences. "BRITAIN PREPARED."

On -Monday at the Theatre Royal the W'<r film id' (iir Army and Navy will be : creened for the first time. It comprise s scenes of munition making a: Vickers, Ltd., where over 100,000 men and women are employed; the British armies training, showing all arms of the new forces; the Navy in the North Sea, taken by special authority of Mr A. J. Balfour, including lite on board the Queen Elizabeth and the firing of her 15-inch guns; many other scenes, making altogether a series the like or which has never been seen before. Describing these films the London Globe says:—"At last through the great eye of the cinema we are shown most minutely how a huge army has been made in a year and a half. It is only on seeing these pictures that one comprehends that it has been done." In addition to the three evening performances three matinees will be given. Arrangements have been made with the local schoolmasters to enable every chdd to witness this great Imperial object lesson, at one of the afternoon performances.