ENTERTAINMENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13272, 30 August 1916, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"BRITAIN PREPARED." The season of the magnificent war films "Britain Prepared" has I n extended beyond Hie original dates, and arrangeemnls have been made to show the pictures for one mure afternoon performance, lo enable Ihe visiting country people lo witness this great production. Tin- afternoon matinees have been vers' popular. The pictures deal with every phase of naval and military life in the Old Land, and are certainly the most complete and impressive of any thai have ever been screened. They are not ordinary motion pictures, bul living pages in the nation's history, showing the gigantic scale on which England is manufacturing munitions and how an army has been recruited, trained, armed, and equipped, and perhaps, the most wonderful of all, it depicts in a strikingsequence of scenes Britain's mighty sea power—the sure shield of the Empire—Dreadnoughts, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, mine-sweepers, seaplanes, and submarines. The pictures have been most highly praised and endorsed by the statesmen of Hreat Britain —and by our own leaders, the Hon. Mr Massey, Hie Hon. .lames Allen, and Sir Joseph Ward, who have publicly testified to the enormous value such pictures have. A full military orchestra renders appropriate music. THE KINO'S. Mack Sennett, the originator of Keystones, is personally appearing in some of the Triangle comedies,- together with Mabel Normand and Raymond Hitchcock, one of the newest Triangle recruits. Mr Sennett and Vfiss Normand act as host and hostess ,o Mr Hitchcock, who appears in the •ole of a traveller from India who wrings back to America a work on nagic and a collection of sacred makes. . It can be imagined what turnoil is caused when a basketful of makes break loose. The Brahmin seekng to recover the magic scroll is nixed up in the proceedings. The Hindu pursuer is a bomb-thrower, and there are some funny moments when Hitchcock and Sennett get unwelcome possession of the bomb. On the programme is also a very fine Vitsgraph called "His Golden Graiß^ ,T fj» interesting subject entitled "Mow Flowers Breathe," Charlie Chaplin car--toons, war topical, and a scenic fjrtp round London in snow-time.