WEST'S PICTURES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 149, 23 December 1908, Page 2

WEST'S PICTURES.

Details of the leading picture items to be presented on Christmas night at the Town Hall, when West's Pictures and Do Groen's Vice-Regal Orchestra make their reappearance in Wellington, are published in another column. The programme has been carefully selected, and should provide a first-class entertainment and one appropriate to the occasion. The s>tav film is entitled " Christmas, from tho Nativity to the 20th 'Century." This 1 film baa only recently been received here. '

Tho colouring is Baid to be especially fine, and the various scenes and effects, the management fctates, have been carefully rehearsed airl reproduced in a manner which will appeal to people at the present season of the year. Another fine coloured film is entitled "The Life of Samson." Journeys through the Soudan, Riviera, Naples, and from Victoria to Brighton will lie made per medium of the kinematograph, and a variety of other subjects will be introduced. Suitable music will be provided by the Vice-Regal Orchestra. On Box- 1 ing night the student of physical culture and "how td get fit" will be shown the training operations of Burns and Johnson, and an idea of the maritime pov.er of Italy will be gained by a series of films showing a recent review of Italian battleships. A special matinee will be given on Boxing Day at 2.30, when children will be admitted at special rates. The box-office is at the Dresden.