AMUSEMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 9, 5 December 1916, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

"llfllll* l FOLEY'S PICTURES. BRITAIN PREPARED. FINAL SCREENING TO-NIGHT. The British forces on la: d and sea. are presented most interestingly in a lengthy and comprehensive motion picture "Britain Prepared," winch attracted a crowded attendants last, vvening at His .Majesty's Theatre. Instructive views of actual work in the •trenches are given including rooting harbwire entanglements, operating Lewis guns, catapults, and blowing up mines. Aerial warfare provides a thrilling episode, the spectators being treated to the spectacle of the ascent of an air Hoot and the pursuit of a hostile aeroplane viewed IV. m the pursuing machine at a height of over 5000 ft. There are also exhibitions oi bomb-dropping and the descent and landing of war aeroplanes. The British Navv, the pride of every true

Britisher, is received in detail from the tiny but deadly submarine to the monster super-Dreadnoughts. The warships are displayed at anchor and manoeuvring at sea." As the huge steel w;ills threw up the sp'ay from the mountainous billows in s. veral views of the battleships in the North Sea there wore frequent outbursts of applause. The building and launching of a battleship, a trip on a minesweeper, a cruise round famous warships, and life on board the v. ssels are attractively visualised. The submarine service is thoroughly ov< rhaulutl by the camera man, who initiates us. into the mysteries of the periscope, a novel view being included throng t a periscope. The now hist, ric battn - ship Queen Kli/übeth, which mad,' a name at Gallipoli, is allotted a chapter In herself,•and was enthusiastically applauded when her big guns were iii-,.,!. The "hornets" ol the lloet, the fast destroyer.-, Hying through tin naves, and a panorama of Bril ish bat- (|,.: hip ; in action, conclude-; the : uhjeet, occupying the en! ire programme, which will lie shown to-night for tho last time.