AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1930, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

EVERYBODY® pfeilßEa to* .- ■

{ C ' ,'i. - TO-NIGHT I TO-NlGllT l it

All the glamour of war, all the feyerishn/ess of it, all the human anguish are brought to the screen in black; and white . sMf{i(h l .,sbund at the iPrincees Theatre": to-night with the showing of “The tjjqul of ' France,” Jacques Haik’s spectacletjpfiJler. - “The .is perhaps the ment ever imprinted on celluloid—for it is ft true record of the trhi'ls and cojjrftgft-.of the nation, the nation. which muefed; most, in its tape pi greatest apd woe, It is too for biejFe hpt it has ; beph witw thorIpsjghJy effe.c^rv:e by" the musical staffi^ot.JlSßinioaint,'-the recompany for the film. The /plot is -ft sfpipjp -fWt ' the fortune® <i§ 'mother ap.d three j#bt¥rt eial family, alj. of whom have to play in, the .great test oo^rftge. Tfje fftvourite sop is £he first jo .die. •Hig scapegoat bro^im , '“chi'i , ie¥'dh and" becomes a hero. The father and the younger son.,,replace-, rnents are badly weeded. '-’Meanwhile the. 'mother sees one after another o her loved ones leaving the’ provincial homestead and her heart is.laden with grief. The tenor of the story is-that war is reprehensilihp.-apd / .the lesson is that there should never be another war, Mine, the war mother giyes ope of the most realistic and ©naotiomrstirripg. this reviewer - has • seen/ih many a long The scenes^iri 1 jyhich the actiml grounds of Verdun, Mt. iQ)rbillet, the Marne and other. places are slipwn are real and tstirring, became they are authentic J- -The mgsicftl score completes the appeal to the aurftj senses lyhkdroof r -wbu 1 d he missing if the silent.- ' Good- supporting programme. Prices : Circle 2s ; .Stalls’ under 12, 6d.