ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1917, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

MARVELLOUS NATURAL COLOR PICTURES. ''JOHN BULL',S EMPIRE." A gorgeous programme, shown bv the hmemacolor .process, will be screened at Everybody\s next Tuesday and Wednesday, by -Mr. W. ,T. -Shephard, of Kinemacolor fame. For sheer magnificence the tone effects of these pictures, which are pbotogiuMhcd in the natural colors, will prove a revelation and a feast of pleasure. In -.John .is u i|- s |.; mi ,j ri ," ,„„, sces many stupendous and stirring events in many parts of the King's 'Dominions. Life m Canada, our sister Dominion and tlie ''Lady of the Knows," is intensely beautiful, and interesting. Nothing finer tan be imagined, nor could the hand of man paint such a picture as the section showing Niagara Falls, .with its roaring torrents in flood. Tlie colors and rainhow effects must be seen to be realised. There is also a quaint picture of a huge alligator farm with thousands of alligators, from infants up to 350-year-olds, being farmed for their skins. There is a beautiful stag hunt in Devon, with its rcdsconi.cd hunters, and the horsewomen will appeal greatly to the feminine sex. Gorgeous scenes of Royalty are seen in England and Ireland, which never fail to arouse the greatest enthusiasm. These are hut a few of the many subjects which go to form a programme of the greatest possible inter-f est and beauty. .Special attention is called to the fact that all are shown in the natural colors, and differ entirely from the ordinary pictures. Included in this Empire series is a section dealing with "Nc\y Zealand's Wonderland," which were specially taken for and are shown by arrangement with tlie Xew' Zealand Oove.rnrnent. Tlie whole of the .llominion and its vast resources are dealt with in a charming and intensely Interesting manner. The exhibition of these pictures throughout Australia and America has been truly remarkable, arousing the greatest enthusiasm. Tlie Kinemacolor process, which shows everything in the true colors of nature, has been greatly improved upon in recent times, and will prove an agreeable change to the ordinary picture. The Xew Plymouth season will be limited to two evening performances and a special matinee on Wednesday.