“OUR NAVY.”

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 375, 26 March 1902, Page 2

“OUR NAVY.”

The amusement loving public of Gisborne have a great treat in store for them next week. On Easter Monday evening and following nights the latest and greatest London success, “Our Navy,” will be shown here for the first time. For the past three years “ Our Navy,” hag been showing at the London Polytechnic, and the Australian tour has been little short of a triumphal maroh. The Auckland Herald says:—‘“Our Navy’ gives a faithful presentment of the building up of Bif tain’s great naval force, the muscle, the sinew, and the grit, and makes the onlooker realise more fully than ever the wonderful results of modern, training, and no less the marvellous improvements in the vessels and implements of war which enable our supremacy upon the sea to remain unquestioned. The pictures are so well chosen and so well grouped in sequence thatthoy take the audience ‘ behind the scenes’ and make the life of ‘.lack’ an open secret, show him at his work and at his play, picture his gallantry and his expertness, deal with his life from the stage of the raw recruit to that of the trained

, and finished defender. No kinematographic entertainments seen in Auckland have the same amount of excellence in their quality as this latest one. Last night's audience, which was a packed one, so appreciated the fare set before them that scarcely a picture was allowed to pass without a word of applause, and many were so well liked that those in front would have fain seen them repeated. The instrument used for the projection of the success was of up-to-date capacity, throwing clear and easily discernible pictures on the screen. The light was excellent and there was no flicker. An admirable lecture strung the series together, this being delivered with clearness of enunciation and good eluctionary style by Mr L. B. Butler. A feature was the effects introduced behind the scenes, which added to the realisms of the animated pictures. There are over 60,000 feet of films shown during the evening. Magnificent as a “'hole, the views need no special commendation singly, each being remarkable for its fidelity and picturesque effect. “ Our Navy ” is at present showing in the Opera House, Auckland, to packed and delighted audiences. The box-plan will be opened to morrow at Miller's,