ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 184, 3 February 1914, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

KMI'IKK TIIKAXIiK. "With Captain Scott to flic South I'ole." a nieinoralile historic lilm taken by Herbert I', Poiiling, !•' Ii.C.S., will he shown at the Umpire lor the last lime to-night. The llritish Antarctic expedition.' under Captain Scott, U.N.. which b'fl London ill June, 1!)1((, will ever live in the history of ni<n as one of the e.real">t -ciculilic eiiteipri-cs ever sent out of England. The picture, therefore, is a photographic record of exceptional worth, if only for that reason alone, Hut there are several phase- of (he -abject that recommend it lo the theatre-goer. The lilm shows tile daily life of the hand of brave explorers, who appear happy anil healthy with the thermometer at :)() ilegnes Irlow freez-ing-point. Scott and his comrades are seen on their terrible last march to the gaol of lln.ir aiiibilioii--the South Poio. llnrnc-seil to their sledge, they push on across the dreary waste. In llieir but. the verv one in which thev slept their last long sleep, the Utile' baud make merry" and strive to forget the dangers pasf'and \ef to be encountered. Ani-mal-life in those desolate regions is also an cntertuiniiiL' subject, llmre thrasher whales cruise slowly within a few yards of the camera, and seals, penguins, and gull- appear indill'crent of the proximity of the photographer. The film is n Icnglhv one, "but if commands the attention throughout.