WILLIAMSON'S BIO-TABLEAU.

Bush Advocate, Volume XVII, Issue 68, 21 March 1905, Page 5

WILLIAMSON'S 810-TABLEAU.

The above entertainment will be seen for the first time in Dannevirke on Thursday next, when will be displayed what is said to be the most remarkable series of biographic representations ever presented to a local audience. The flickering inevitably associated with displays of this character is said to have almost disappeared, and the maximum amount of detail is secured., A programme oj entertaining diversity will be submitted, both of ■educational and , pleasurable interest to old and young* The piece de resistance of the entertainrrre,nt is of course the firie series of Russo-Japanese war pictures. ,It is mainly claure'd for this wonderful entertainment that frofh . the safe vantage ground of a comfortable stall one can behold the manifo^l moves thafc»itre made- in this dread game Qf nations. All is visible to the eye. First there are ihe.prepatations, the drilling of troops, the commissariat and transport' organisation, and, the pravingof priests.^ Thea> comes Jhe fascination of ordered material movements of Cossack&on prancing chargers, and infantry advancing in mathematic squares. Then there is* war itself, lurid as if painted by 1 a Verestchagin or Catoti Woodville. Several great pictures will be 'displayed, notabty the transit of the Russian' troops through Siberia to ' • Witbiqs , fcbit, serieswilf be^ej^ified the terrible o^lties of, trau^portiog a great ar*ny a^M th« frozen JLake 3^kal. r Tbe b«tt^"ofLioiyaa"g \pith£be c^pturiog^f Russian Jap,ane§e'takitigjpQsitsorisj&ntl the seige^of Port. Arthur disclosing the great Jjaval engageraents^pft' tb« beleagoed t'oM^i. Hiumorpus pictures are freelr sandwf^hod between the^|olid fare. ' Tpe entertajnmffnt pronjfsesto be oj\e"i>f'tn'e iookb tiniquoyet seen.Jn the district. The /plan fs ,ndw open at Btfftldtt'e v There is; no extra fee for bocAipK ap^ M^'WilHjtms'on Is sparing no'^xpeijae atr |bp onll ' Hall to make thV^entertainmel; worthy Of it's, great reputation. " , ,. Tl /