ENTERTAINMENTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 501, 30 January 1920, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

Lyceum Pictures. A REAL WAR FILM. "HEARTS OF THE WORLD." Diggers have laughed disdainfully at every so-colled "war film" produced, except one, namely "Hearts of the World," which was screened at Pukekohe on Tuesday night. This was a real war film, the original photos having been taken right on the battlefield. As a matter of fact, four of the artists who were engaged on the work were carried out of the line on stretchers, the party having been subject to the same baptism of fire as the soldiers received. Until Tuesday night, the writer was ceZptical of ever seeing a genuine war movie, but not many feet of this film were reeled off before he was convinced that the thing was no fake. The picture gives civilians as good an idea of real warfare as they are ever likely to get, though they cannot realise what courage and fortitude were needed by men and women who underwent repetitions of what was depicted on the screen on Tuesday night, for over four years. The pictures were taken during the early stages of the war, but the authorities forbade the screening of it shortly after it appeared, for the reason that it was considered unnerving. Opinions differ; the writer hazards the view that had the public been shown plenty of faithful representations of actual warfare, there would have been a more effective protest on the part of the people in general against profiteering merchants; also against ladies of easy virtue, who clothed themselves in gorgeous fur coats purchased with

soldiers' allotments. However, these things may be, "Hearts of the World" is 3 magnificent pourtrayal of modern warfare, and through it runs a vein of true pathos that melts the hardest heart. It is a pictorial record of heroic women who suffered all things, and men who gave their glorious manhood in order that liberty, which is as the vejy .breath of life to free-bcVTr peoples, might "tyot. perish from the earth; and in \order that better social conditions might spring out of the ash a «. of demolished despotism and the ries of international financiers, s SATURDAY NIGHT. "THE GHOST FLOW ICR." The latest Triangle "The Ghost Flower," to be shown at the Premier Hall to-morrow (Saturday) provides something novel in the way of atmosphere. The story is a Neapolitan romance, a love story of allied Italy and France, and Alma Reubens is starred in a role that tellectual face, expressive eye# and dominant personality peculiarly fit her for. Thrills, excitement and adventure are a feature of a story dealing with secret societies and their dark ways of intrigue and vengeance. Alma Reubens is supported by a strong cast. The story is novel in plot and situation. Other items are gazette, scenic and comedy. i