LYRIC PICTURES

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 26 April 1917, Page 3

LYRIC PICTURES

Friday night—" Far from the Madding Crowd"—-the firs.t of the Florence Turner series, of pjqturas to, be released by the Mutua.l Company, The picture was taken in rural Wales, and offers quaint glimpses of landscape highways and byways whioh a.re distinctly, foreign to anything in this oountry. For this reason the picture has a distinct value aside from its story. Saturday—"The Warning "—From the days of Eden a woman's power to sway mankind for good or evil has reigned potent and supreme, and never has it been demonstrated with S,nc^ realism as in this, pciw.erfut story. '.'the -Battle of the So'mme," the first and only authentic pictures' of "the big push." This pictura taken by the Beitish War Office s and now causing a .terrifiq s^sa/fcion throughout Einglana, America and, Australasia, ; was shown before, the King and Queen. Mr Lloyd says : " See that this picture which is in itself an, epic qf gallantry reaches everyone,."