ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1917, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THIRD EPISODE OF "SECRET OF. THE SUBMARINE." AT THE EMPIRE TO-NIGHT. The fifteen-episode scrip', ''The Secret of the Submarine," produced by the American Film Company, is acknowledged to be the best and most attractive serial story yet shown on the screen. Dramatic force and exciting situations are of course strongly in evidence, with a perplexing mystery that grips the interest all the time, and a cleverly constructed plot that develops along clear and to great lines, and each part finishes with a smashing climax that will bring the spectator next week. Special attention lias been paid to the photography and effects, which have been .produced | with the utmost care of detail and reality. The story i s written by E. Alexander Powell, the famous war correspondent, and is undoubtedly the finest film novel that lias been produced. ' The third episode of this popular picture will lie screened to-night, at the ■matinee tomorrow, and again to-morrow night. On the same programme there is a powerful Metro feature. "The Dawn of LovO," an exceptionally brilliant picture in which the popular artist, Mabel Talliagerro, takes the leading role. The first of the Rex Beach travel pictures will also be a feature of this programme. " BATTLE OF THE ANCRE." Widespread public interest has been aroused by the announcement that the first of the British oflicial war films which are being sent out to X.Z. Government, will be screened at Everybody's: Theatre on two evenings, and for two matinees, next week, commencing next Tuesday afternoon at 2.30. The Government has entered into an arrangement with the \ r .M.C.A. to display tho I picture throughout the Dominion for tho benefit of our soldiers. tlm.uigh seven; ' of the well-organised channels. The subject of the nictnre which is SflOftft, in length, is "The Battle of tho Anore," |

which took place in September of last year, and by 110 means the loast in. teresting feature in it is the section which illustrates for the first time the advance of the tanks. The sight of a tank returning from a little stroll over barbed wire entanglements, through which it has broken as through cobwebs, and lumbering down what was once a village street, followed by a crowd of cheering troops, is one to raise laughter amongst any who are not the object ot its unwelcome attentions. The cheery note is struck all through the pictures, especially in the Australian section, wherein even wounded men, being carried back from No-Man's land after Poziejres, wave a weak arm of greeting to the camera. The whole picture represents the most comprehensive, reliable, and realistic record of the war that has yet appeared in this country, and for that reason alone crowded houses should be assured. Aircraft figure prominently, and the .watcher of . the . screen in effect looks .down from a -height, of in ore than two miles upon a broad vision of the The plan opens at Collier's to-morrow, morning.