ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ARMIES OF EUROPE AT WAR. Everybody in New Plymouth cannot go to the war, and we certainly don't want the war to come to New Plymouth; but we can get just a taste of it by means of the war pictures, when the Armies of Europe War Films Company produce their entertainment here- on Tuesday and Wednesday next at the Theatre. Royal. In these pictures can be seen the men who are actually fighting in the present great titanic struggle, not merely as parade pictures, but actually as soldiers living and fighting in the very trenches of Belgium and Prance. These pictures comprise the only complete programme of genuine war films ever shown, and by no means is it an ordinary picture show, but an entertainment without rival in the civilise.-: world. Bristling with thrilling events, of actual deeds by our heroic soldiers—not acted war dramas, or pictures produced to make, one laugh, but a graphically portrayed history of the present great war in all its reality and horrors. (Photographed by Mr. Holmes, the lecturer, who was specially engaged at enormous expense to go and take .these pictures, and then travel the British Empire with them to vividly describe each and every scene as it happened before his camera, while lie risked his life in getting them. The evening's entertainment is augmented by special music and military songs, rendered by other artists who travel with this up-to-date company, Mr. JAel Rowe, Auckland's leading tenor, singing the "Firing Line," etc. Every phase of the great war is touched, upon, from the making .of soldiers in various parts of .the Empire, and "our boys" on their way to the Dar. danelles through Egypt to Gallipoli, to the actual battle scenes where one sees the life-blood of our heroes being drained from their bodies, falling before the camera, to the work of the Red Cross attending the wounded and the burying of the'dead. The work of his -Majesty's Navy, and the handling of their guns'in action, really makes a. series of war pictures genuine in.every respect and such as have never before been thrown on any screen. The box plan is now open at Hoffmann's.