ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1917, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"IT IS FOR ENGLAND." The screening of the official film of the Navy League, under the shiove title, at Everybody's Theatre last ni£ht drew a large audience, a.iul the applause with the various scenes depicted were greeted indicated the genuine appreciation of the audience of the subject matter of the film, as well as the pieturisation effects produced. The picture has been called a super-feature photoplay, and the term is in no sense an extravagant one. Indeed, it is safe to say that never before has anything quite so stupendous been attempted in picture production. The picture has been accorded the patronage in New Zealand of his Excellency the Governor-General, and is being screened in aid of the funds of the Navy League. From start to finish there is not a moment in which the attention of the audience is not riveted on the picture, which is in truth one of the most thrilling and inspiring productions ever seen. Of course, there is interwoven into the story of the work "for England" a drama of intensely captivating interest, in which a delightful lovestory is unfolded. It is this feature of the production which touches the chords of human sympathy, and the audience is involuntarily carried along on the Hood of patriotic enthusiasm displayed by a brave young girl and her lover lieutenant, who, each in their own part, fearlessly dare all in the knowledge that it is "for England." Their ultimate winning through, despite the machinations of the Teutonje espionage agents, afforded the greatest delight to those who saw the picture, and the final scenes in the dramatic element of the film were loudlv applauded. The acting is without fault, and the setting of the scenes is superb. The pictures representing the work of the navy in the great war would be difficult to describe with superlatives. Practically every aspect of the navy's activities is represented, and the pride with which that work is regarded by the British citizens was amply demonstrated by the tumultuous applause when there appeared on the screen pictures of the Grand Fleet at sea, the arrival of troops from overseas, the capture of a German submarine, and the blowing up of a German submarine by the hero of the story, by means of explosives which had been hidden by the enemy for very different purposes. The whole production forms an entertainment of a highly educational character, to say nothing of its undoubted value at the present time from the point of patriotism. Specially arranged incidental music was played by a full orchestra. "It is for England" will be screened again at 1 2.30 p.m. to-day, and finally to-night.