EVERYBODY'S.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1916, Page 3

EVERYBODY'S.

LAST NIGHT OF "THE PHANTOM CROOK" AND "THE WAIF." "The Phantom Crook" is mystifying and entertaining tremendous audiences at Everybody's. It is an amazing, fascinating, at times even amusing, story of a gentleman swindler, who" when warned by the police authorities that he must leave the town, decided to take away with him the Bereton necklace, which is valued at a fabulous sum. lle| with a confederate, whom he introduces to the butler of the Bereton household as his valet, stay for the week-end at the seaside residence of the Beretofis. To this place comes young Bereton with a doctor, who is sijtc-mliiig liini for a trilling illness. The great Bereton necklace is shown, and in a I lash the lights go out and the celebrated necklace "disappears. Who stole it remains an impenetrable mystery up (to the < last minute of the drama. A very pretty love romance is woven into the story. The supporting programme includes the delightful feature-drama, "The Waif," easily one of the most popular pictures screened locally. This programme will be repeated for the last occasion tonight.

COMMENCING TO-MORBOW. ''•THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME.' , Commencing at Everybody's to-mor-row night, there ■will be presented the British M ar Office's own films,* shbwing the opening of the great offensive in I'iancc The Battle of the Sorome." Mr. Lloyd George specially directed that these films should he shown everywhere, and forty copies were simultaneously shown in London 1 alone, where they caused an enormous sensation. Among the mosfr wonderful of the many incidents which make these pictures so different from the war films previously seen here are:—

The five clays' sustained 'bombardment of the enemy trenches at BeaumontHanipl prior, to July ], • fl.'2-inch howitzers shelling the Germans at Mametz, blowwig up dugouts, and clearing away wire entanglements. Thousands of "Flying Pigs" being fired by 0.43-inch trench mortars. Oper' ating the loin, howitzer ("Grandmother"), manned by Royal .Marines. Each shell weighs 1400 lbs.

July The morning of the attack, at a signal along the <entirs 10-:»jile front, the troops leaped over the parapets, and charged under heavy fire. Rescuing a comrade under fire. Lancashires retuqi" with prisoners. Friend and foo belp each other. ' iFathetic scene after the Gordons made, their unsuccessful but glorious digrge on Mametz trenches. >verve-shattered German prisoners arriving. Burying German dead 011 the battlefield. German curtain-fire outside Minden's Post. The pictures convey a most astonishing impression of the vastness of tlie offensive organisation. To appreciate this nothing could be so effective as the sight of mile ..upon mile of bursting shells and shrapnel on ihe enemy lines. So close together, and so continuous, are tlio great black upheavals that ojie wonders how the munition depots could possibly supply the demand for five days in succession.

The management wisli it to be specially noted that this picture lias the same "official backing" as "Britain Prepared," and mtisf on 110 account be classed with the many brands of socalled "official" war pictures which have been shown in this city in the past. The 'management pay a special war tax for each night the picture is screened.