AMUSEMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 2 September 1915, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

KING ’ S THEATRE. The Greatest Melodrama yet produced will be screened to-night, tiie title being “Captain Alva-res,” and it is GOOO feet. It is a stirring drama, full of excitement, and shews haw revolutions begin. There i 3 realistic battle scene, and 2000 supemumerariov It is a picture with adventure, dash and danger, with incomparable splendour. The screening will commence about 8.15. , THREE STARS THEATRE. At thi s theatre to-night will ue sh.wn a phenomenal feature, "The Fringe of War,” which is 4000 feet. The picture glitters with patriotism; it is the picture England cheered, it will arouse your intellect, excite your pity, and elevate your ethics, its greatness is endorsed by every woman in the United Kingdom. Another picture of interest at the present moment is, “Departure of the Maori Contingent and the Third Reinforcements,,’ and the latest hiring line Gazette. “TOMMY” IN HIS TRUE COLOUR? TOWN HAUL “It’s thank you, Mr Atkins, when th e Band begins to Play,” wrote Rudyard Kipling in peace times, and how truly ha w'rote, who will deny to-day. The whole Empire is thanking “Mister Atkins,” and is ready to do anything to make his lot more co nMrcable than it has been in the past. The new . kinemacolor may be said to show “Tommy” in his true colour?, as it is the first occasion on tviiich we been privileged to see him as he is; that is, to witness him in -..amp in England, in bivouac in France, in the trenches; in Flanders —at bay before the might of the soulless Huns, and all just as it is, with the grass green, the roads brown, the cornfields yellow in th e sunlight, and thos touches of brght colours that are the only reminders of the scarlet tunics of a I quartelr of a century ago, when it was * deemed the proper thing for every j soldier to make himself as conspicuous a mark as possible. But these; touches of colour spell nature, and mak e the figures in the picture living sentient beings, not the dull black and white of th e ordinary moving picture. In the picture; ‘The Fighting Forces of Europe,” a splendid idea is given of th e military strength of England today, no longer a “pitiful little army.” |ln the picture is shown a regiment of I infantry on the march in hill equip- • ment, a makch past of Highlanders and cavalry that makes the audience rise in its enthusiasm, a corner of a British camp and what goes on there, I the Army Service Corps at - mrk, I views of the Red Cross nurses for the front, and what is of intense in forest, the enrolling of recruits at the grey old Tower of London. The l-mera-icol-our petures with “The Fighting F.vves of Evirope” will he shown at the Town Hall on Monday night next. Box plans corned at Finch’s Bazaar this morning, and those desirous of seevr-ng a good peat ere advised to b..ok car.y. for all who are touched b.v the Imperial spit t will. w° feel assu~°d make an P| Wrt to pee this remarkab.e picture ’n ratuKil COIOUVS.