ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13647, 29 November 1917, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

THEATRE ROYAL. The big star at the Theatre Royal attracted a large audience last night. The acting throughout rings true, each artist striking the right note. 'Hie work of the case could hardly be improved upon, while in the setting and photography the highest standards are obtained. Owing to the " Birth of a Nation" season commencing to-mor-row, "The Faded Flower" can only be screened to-night. "THE BIRTH OF A NATION." -i A REMARKABLE PICTURE. Now that the United States has joined the Allies in the greatest fight that lias been waged for freedom in all history. there has naturally been aroused a more keen interest in the affairs of the Mother Republic of the New World. That she has made history is indisputable, and no event in that history since the War of Independence is so terrible, vet so sublime, as the Civil War which broke out in 1861. Terrible because father fought son with a fury and hatred seldom displayed in warfare between nations; sublime in its results, for " out of the mortal agony of four years of civil war and eight years of more horrible reconstruction a nation was born." To this momentous period in the history of the United States the master producer. D. W. Griffith, has turned for the theme of his picture epic, " The Birth of a Nation," a production already eonceded to be in every way worthy of the great event which it portravs. It will be screened at the Theatrt Roval to-morrow and Saturday.