STAR PICTURES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 18 September 1914, Page 4

STAR PICTURES

" QUO VADIS ?"

On Saturday (to-morrow) evening the above picture, which is a picture-play masterpiece (8000 ft), will be screened at Becroft's Picture Palace. The story of the Roman Empire under the tyrant Nero, as told in Henry Sienkiewiez's notable"book, is faithfully depicted, and the pictures 'transform the written • word into actuality, the' characters being represented" by actors of rank/with realism M& trium Pn of cineinatqgranhy representation.' fhis is pyid'eni/ ni eyery' detail, in the magnificence of Nero's sumptuous banquets, thg splendour of the great Amphitheatre, and the gathering of the Christians in the Catacombs. The banquet given to Nero, a scene of mad revelry, is an impressive scene. Again, the spectacle of the beautiful city of Rome burning, is one of awful grandeur rejjU4fc>iib thrilling episode. The view' of the great arena, ;^>ish J,he thousands of spectators, gladiatorial '<■ cstmtests,; chariot races,' etc., is also' a magnificent ivVtufe. In fact, the whole story of /' is iJ'it'i-'urpv'l *s remarkable for its heauty/W^nVandVompietetijeM.' 1