THEATRE ROYAL.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12502, 25 May 1906, Page 9

THEATRE ROYAL.

TAJTiS LIVING PICTURES. j A <wrl picture t>h«w is always popu- I j lar, and the ret urn si-u-oii of Ta"ifh Livj iii;<; l'iptiiH-. op<--ne<l in the 'l;ie.;ue P.oy.il last night. Tno n:auI flr.'fipi.nt liavo .some tilmfi ejiMiieiy n.>w to this part of the colony, : , (!t.-pit;ting of exceptional interest. ', \ and a?, tlu'y were run through the J machine tin- audience oxpn;«-.ed its ap- | j p:\ci.ition of the nelectkm in the mest .' j eucfjuiaging manner. The l)p>t of the • ! s.-rirs wa.-, a «ct <jf picture, taken in C'<-yh;n. vTiui they conveyed a vivid idea jof t!i;> tc\:iic !>c.»uty, jind native Jifo in interesting jxait of the world. The < audicucv, 'o all intents und purpo.»«»s j rod«i on the front of a train through a picturesque and bwuitifiil country '. oovertxl ivitli luxuriant hub-tropical i flora ; bt>>r th/>y were shown realistic pictures oi' the iKitives at work and play, j a quartPt <f <'lc])liaiits them- i M'.vv- in a river, and «, light between ', a snake .:ind a mc:igv>ose, in which the ' reptile M'fMiiod ts fare rafher badly. Anotiicr picture which was even moro in- j t-eresting was the launch of tlio Dread- I r.iiught. His .Majesty, looking par- I ticuhirly well, k eeon to christen tho ! great i-hip; then .'lie gradually gathers way, and moving like the .<- : ide of r mountain. > I ides down into the water, •an imposing sight by r<vnscn cf her size alone. "The Hen that Laid j the Golden Eggs," i - a picto- \ rial pantomime, very cleverly managed. ! Tho hair-rnisi.ng sport of tobevgannrng ' in tho All* is vividly shown oa another film. Vesuvine makes nn eruption to I order, and tho after Kceing the pigeons fed at St. Mark's, and gliding <1 own tho Grand Canal in a gondola, malien a trip on a mountain railway, | ami then harks back to the Eternal City > to gaze on the gloomy ruins of the i Colo.sat.Mim. before iieino; transportctl to Ix>ndoii to sco tho siyhte of the great I British Metropolis. In addition to tho I lihufi specially singled out a number of i ' otlu-rs are shown, wunit of them bnjng excwdinc;ly diver tin.";. A word of praise ie due to the pianiste. whoso accompaniments to tho pictures wore skilfully arranc;<Hl, and always appropriate. Vocal item's wore given during tlic oven ins; by Mr Sydney Monk, nnd proved a pleaisant variation in the programme. The entertainment will bo repuated to-night. ■