ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13649, 1 December 1917, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

"BIRTH OF A NATION." INTERESTING AND SPECTACULAR. There was a large audience at the Theatre Royal. Hamilton, last night, when D. W. Griffith's great spectacle, " The Birth of a Natic " founded on Thomas Dixon's book, •• The Clansman," was screened for the first time. The picture proved to be intensely interesting, dealing as it does with the early history of the great nation which has now become one of our strongest Allies. The American Civil War, that bitter struggle which for a time separated North and South, but ultimately led to a united nation, was pictured very realistically, some of the battle scenes being exceedingly thrilling. The spectators could not but be struck by the wonderful parallel which lay between the final struggle of that war aud the present war—the militarily efficient South giving way before the slowly mobilising but resistless strength of the North. Several epoch-making events of American history, including the gathering of the Ku Kiux Klan and the assassination of President Lincoln, v.'ere pictured with much realism, and there was a leve story running through the film, which provided the necessary heart interest. Altogether "The Birth of a Nation" was full of interest; being worthv of the master mind which gave us "Intolerance." It is a dramatic and spectacular production. "The Bir'h of a Nation" will be sf-rotiled again to-night, when there will doubtless be another crowded house. It it- $ picture which should hot be missed.

| th£ fe'iMfi'l [ Nowadays the prizes CA jife go to 'hose who Possess the initialive S.rid the brains. If a woman proves mor" able than a man she will win. In " The Weaker Sex," the Triangle drama to be serened this eveninc at The King's, this asneet of modern life receives full consideration. The powerfully dramatic central incident is the charge nf murder against the son of the Crown Prosecutor. The lawyer's conception of duty compels him to the prosecution of 'is own son. The court scene thus presents the strange incident of a Crown Prosecutor being opposed and finally beaten by his own dainty, clever, and winsome wife.