AMUSEMENTS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 84, 11 April 1917, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

"TRIP TO ROTORUA."

; At His .Majesty's to-night (Wednesday) the picture of "A Trip to Rotorua" should prove a conspicuous success. ■" The film depicts not only thermal scenery, but interesting scenes connected with the native life of these regions. The graceful poi dance ,by Maori women, the diving of the pickanninies' .^or pennies, canoe | race on tlie Lake, Maori women ! cooking in boiling cauldrons—all \ these aspects of native life are shown. Among the most beautiful of many striking scenes depiciled may be mentioned the Whakarewarewa geysers in eruption, views of Ohinemuri, Steaming cliffs .of Rotomahima, and the Hamurana Spring; while -the closing .picture, sunset over Lake, Rotorua,, was a veritable triumph ©i the photographer's art. As an educative factor this series oj pictures possesses unique value, and children, as well as adults, should make an effort to see it. Among i? .tb.e supporting, pictures, is one winett gives the beholder a vivid idea ol what one of the big American car factories, with an output of 1000 cars a day, is like ■; a new Pathe Gazette, a "Mutt and \Teff" cartoon; and1 a brace of most diverting, Vitagrapn comedies of the refined type.