THE GREAT METROPOLIS.
Everyone, some time or other, has experienced the feeling which our Teutonic cousins so happily express as "wanderlust," but it is only the more, favored of fortune who have the means of satisfying it. Some who have the means are of too timorous a. nature to undertake a globe-trotting expodition^ having in mind such disasters as those of the Titanic and Empress of Ireland. Therefore, to these timorous ones, and to those who have to keep their 'hands to the plough to provide their daily bread, such a picture as was put on last night by Fullers at His Majesty's Theatre comes like a breath from the beyond. Thea-e w-as a large house, composed: mainly of those who wished to see London for the first time and those who, exiles from Home, wished to renew old associations by glimpses of familiair scenes, not seen for twenty or thirty years. To thesa latter the London of tdMlay came as a surprise. Many .of the-old landmarks were gone—in their places palatial buildings or parks. The film takes the tourist ovesr the great metropolis, arid the tow is most comprehensive. Nothing of amy moment is left out, and a human element is introduced in the Royal pictures, and in tshat view of Sir Joseph Ward in which he is shown in the pilot's seat of the New Zealand aeroplane "Britannia." Adequately to describe the picture in detail would fill a newspaper, and those who have not seen it should make a point of judging its merit for themselves to-night, when it will be shown for the last time. The picture takes the whole <;i! the second part, and in the first half of. the programme some good films air© shown. "How Coke is Manufactured" is an educational film well pictured; "Gaumont Graphic" is as interesting as even', and there is a Keystone laugh-maker built on very funny lines. The London picture is well operated, and the music is not the least, enjoyable part of the evening's entertainment. .Mr Fleming plays well, and he plays suitable music.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 147, 25 June 1914, Page 5
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346THE GREAT METROPOLIS. Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 147, 25 June 1914, Page 5
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