MINISTERS IN MOVIES.

Taihape Daily Times, 18 April 1918, Page 6

MINISTERS IN MOVIES.

*‘A Picture showing the visit made by Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward to the Western front was screened at a local picture show on Saturday, and aroused as much laughter as would a Keystone comedy. This seems strange but anyone gifted with a sense of humour who sees the picture must help to swell the volume of laughter that accompanies its showing. The two leaders are seen arriving hy motor car; it is pouring rain, and in Ms hurry to don his overcoat Mr. Massey has bat knocked off. Naturally this sets the audience laughing from the start, Then there are various undignified stumbles in the mud of the trenches, the spectacle of the Prime Minister emerging hatless and dishevelled from a dug-out, and through it all tile party hurries on as though pursued. Mr. Massey is seen donning the overralls preparatory to going aloft in an aeroplane. The spectacle of Mr, Massey in this exceedingly ill-fitting garb arouses shrieks of laughter. Then when the aeroplane returns Mr. Massey becomes entangled in the wirework of the machine, but not a whit he is seen running along to Sir Joseph to tell him ‘how fie felt.’ Then, finally, , for the edification of the camera man, Sir Joseph assumes the airman’s helmet, and cuts such a ludicrous figure that the shout of laughter which follows would do credit to a Charlie Chaplin picture.”—N.Z. Times.