FARLAND’S PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, 14 February 1919, Page 3

FARLAND’S PICTURES.

FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY.” ■\Vc need scarcely remind the public rr the screening of the above great picture—claimed to be the greatest picture ever devised at Brights' Theatre, Otaki, to-morrow (Saturday) rh'-ht. So much has been written of t Ms remarkable picture, which has created intense interest wherever shown, that there is little need for us to describe the film. However, the following flattering report, clipped from the “New Zealand Times,” gives a very good idea of the treat that, is in store for the people of Otaki and district: — “Of course, even with so long a film, only a summary of Ambassador Gerard’s book could bo attempted; but the work of dramatisation has been extremely well done, ard the whole has been magnificently staged and mounted. The result is that the picture, j though a faithful reproduction of ac- , tual facts, is intensely, absorbingly, interesting, and grips the imagination wore aud more to the very ond. (Bir ; '

1 Edward Grey's untiring efforts to 1 avert war, very ably seconded bv Mr j Gerard himself, aro fully demonstrated. I'lhe blood-guiltiness of the Kaiser and litis egregious entourage is very clearly sheeted home; and the exposures of the § atrocities of the prison camps at WitS tenhurg and elsewhete, of the ab»o----1 lately unprovoked violation of Belgian J| neutrality, and .the orgies of destruction. rapine, and slaughter that accompanied it, of the importations and enslavement. of the civil populations of France and of Belgium, and |of the submarine piracy, are powerfur an the extreme. One is shown how in-, icvitably, step by step, slowly but none fthe less surely, by sinking of the IVusiItania and by horror heaped on horror’s Stead, the American’s were driven into fine war; how strongly and nobly Presiident Wilson sounded the call for the. fcnited States to Tally to the defence of ipcmocracy, and of all that our 20fli icentury civilisation holds dear; and |how speedily and how superbly the manhood of America answered that Beall, rallying to the standard, raising j |i mighty army and transplanting it/fu H'ranee in record time. Consideration |vf space forbids inoro than this bare Vindication of the wido scope and vivid Interest of the film. To see it. is a (liberal education. Tho First National 1 !|FxhiMtor3 of America aro to be heartily congratulated upon tbeir wonderfully telling pieturisation of what is Imdoubtcdly the book of the hour, and falso upon the very great success of its Sitst screening in Wellington.” | Children will be admitted at Is Id.