ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 6 September 1915, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE WAR IN KINEMACOLOR

TOW,N HALL TO-NIGHT. At the Town Hall to-night the famous piciurss in. Kiiumacoior, or natural colour photography, entitled “With the Fighting- Forces of Europe, whl be shown. Kinemacolor must not for one moment be confused with tjae hand tinted pictures that are shown from time to time in the various picture theatres. It represents th e very latest development in the process cf kinematograph'y, and in that it graces every detah in each picture with nature’s own colouring, an added vitality is lent the subject being dealt with. All have seen the dull black and white or even brown, .pictures of a troop of soldiers passing down a street ho matter where. The pictures may be made interesting by the letterpress, but it has no individuality, no character save in form, but we see that same troop of soldiers inarching down that same street in the blaz e of an English summer, with nature laughing for very joy in hedge and tree, and distant meadow, with the snn illuminating the Union Jack ac th e head of the column, and flashing go.dsn fro mthe instruments of the band, and the scone becomes vitalised and human. That i s what the kinemacclour does. It breathes nature into every picture —that is wh,y the war pictures shown through this process have aroused such enthusiasm wherever they ihaye been presented. “With the Flghtnng Forces of Europe” will throw new lights on the characteristics of the various armies employed in the great struggle. It will tak e in the British “Tommy” camping in a London park, and the gallant Servian army, which taugjht Austria a lesson she will never forget. It will show the gay Zouave of France and the fierce Cossack of Russia, the Italian b-rsag’ieri and the Australian trooper all in war j rim, ready and eager’,y willing to close in a, di.6th struggle with the soulless Hun and his foolish dupes. This will bo the only opportunity of see’ng these in Taihane, the rights being -vchr ive 4 o this company. The prices s.nv-rMsed rkc 3/, ?/.■ and 1. with chil-rv-f-r, nvlf-r’cc, and a big house seems W ONDERFULL HORSEM AN'SH i P. ’

SCENES AT A GYMKHANA AT THE FRONT.

Writing from British headquarters on May 30, Reuter’s correspondent says: Perhaps the strangest scene that has been witnessed in Flanders since the war broke out took place this afternoon on a broad plain, some miles behind the firing line, where some cf the Indian regiments held a gymkhana.

..It seemed as though every regiment of the Allies were represented. The Indians wsr e largely in the majority and presented a splendid picture. Mingled in th 2 crowd were here and there to be seem th e white cloaks and goldb&ribfcone<i waistcoats of the Moroccan light cavalry, the finely-proportioned blacks being the object of great interest among the French peasantry. - Tide programme included tente-peg-ing, running races, jumping, wrestling, th e V.C, race, trick riding, races for the village girls and hoys, and a sack race. Th e sack race was open to both Tommies and Indians, and some of the latter showed themselves quite expert at what must have been to them an unaccustomed mode of progression. One of the prizes in this event was, in fact, captured by a native. Undoubtedly the ' most interesting event of the afternoon was the trick Tiding by selected members of the Indian cavalry. The feats they performed and the agility with which they were carried out were astounding. The men seemed to be fastened 10 their fiery steeds. Nothing could sihane- • them off. Men passed standing erect on the saddle with the horse goinig at full gallop. They rod e on their heads they rode backwards and sideways, bent down ar.q picked objects olf the ground, with one Isg crooked round Fie saddle, and performed a multitude of other’ feats.

In one event a couple of lances neie set in racks on the ground, and a left yards further on two pegs were fixed. Two riders came thundering down the course, picked up the lances, skilfully impaled the pegs in th e exact centre, and rede elf with them at the tip of their lances.

As a finale all the competitors m tbs event rod e , down the course at full 11 op. standing on their horses and firing their revolvers. All ware keenly desirous of getting to grins with the enemy. As one native officer remarked. “How can T re■nm home to my vTa-e with none of mv companv wounded?” This is of the spirit of our native soldiers.

Poll 't let catarrh clog your mind. Got a bottle of Nazol and a Nazol Inhaler, and the cause of trouble will be quickly and easily removed. Believe' sufferers from Sere Throat and Brom chilis.