STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 191, 2 November 1927, Page 14

STRAND

“MONS” Only two more nights remain for Aucklanders to see the famous AllBritish picture, “Mons,” which is now showing at the Strand Theatre. No man, woman or child of British stock should miss this great film epic which tells of the immortal fight put up by the British Army—called by the exKaiser the “Contemptible Little Army” —during the now historic retreat from Mons. Here is an authentic reproduction of the “Old Contemptibles’ ” immortal stand against the terrible odds of August and September, 1914. We see the typical soldier bidden “God-speed” by his sweetheart and mother, the swift, mysterious embarkation for Armageddon, hysterical welcome of the French on French soil, rapid advance to Mons, the immortal fighting retreat, and then—at long last! the dramatic stand of every available man at the turn of the tide. Every man in the picture has war service to his credit; every setting is authentic; every action of the battle is faithfully recreated, and evgjry phase of the soldier’s life in and out of “action” is vividly portrayed. Bombardier A. G. Jenkins, R.H.A., the man who fired the first shell in the Great War, is associated with the picture, and speaks briefly of the Retreat from Mons. A special orchestral score lias been arranged for the Strand Symphony Orchestra by Eve Bentley. “Patriotic Memories March” makes a stirring and popular overture. Included in the pictorial programme supporting the main feature is a Strand Magazine, a special film of Parisian dances, “Cabarets in Paris,” and a highly diverting comedy, “Her Husky Hero.”