Thursday & Friday next, in conjunction with "The flame of the Yukon". Special starring engagement ... Barrie Marschel and "The kid from Timaru" in motion pictures. Told as the film unfolds by the man who wrote it. Produced under the direction of the author ... playing to thunderous applause and crowded houses everywhere. See the landing at Gallipoli! Wright & Jaques, printers, Auckland [Academy Theatre Waihi, April 25 1918]

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Thursday & Friday next, in conjunction with "The flame of the Yukon". Special starring engagement ... Barrie Marschel and "The kid from Timaru" in motion pictures. Told as the film unfolds by the man who wrote it. Produced under the direction of the author ... playing to thunderous applause and crowded houses everywhere. See the landing at Gallipoli! Wright & Jaques, printers, Auckland [Academy Theatre Waihi, April 25 1918]

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Flyer advertises a showing of a film authorised by Sir James Allen, Minister of Defence, involving 5000 New Zealand soldiers, and based on Barrie Marschel's poem "The Kid from Timaru", about a soldier with the surname Kidd. Barrie Marschel recited his poem "as the films unfold". The flyer states that the film had already had seasons in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. The front of the flyer shows a reproduction of a advertisement for the movie with an oval portrait of Barrie Ma...

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Date created

1918

Creator

Wright & Jaques Ltd

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/32200240

Locations

Gallipoli Peninsula / Timaru / Waihi

Related subjects

Marschel, Barrie, active 1890-1936 / Academy Theatre (Waihi, N.Z.) / Allen, James (Sir), 1855-1942 / Documentary films / World War, 1914-1918 / Campaigns / Turkey / Gallipoli Peninsula / Military personnel, New Zealand / Poets / Motion picture theatres / New Zealand / Waikato Region / War poetry / Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts) / Timaru / Waihi

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