ENTERTAINMENTS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1673, 18 December 1911, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

LYCEUM PICTURES

Those who patronised the Lyceum entertainment on Saturday night .were provided with a splendid selection of new pictures, dramatic, scenic, comic, and educational. Of .the last named order was a film descriptive of the function of air in life, tho objects of experiment being a goldfish and a mouse, and tho house held its own breath when air was being pumped away from tho fish aud the mouse; and only breathed freely again when it was seen that the _ victims were "alive and kicking," after a dose of air. Two exciting Indian picture-stories were 'TVlaid of Niagara," a beautifullytinted film, with wonderful scenic effects, and "The Hidden Mine," in which two bad 1 Indians do eventually more good than harm. "The Clown's Best Performance" was a splendid picture-drama, and "The Geranium,' a talo of what a simple flower .did in brightening its sordid surroundings, gripped its spectators with its human interest. There wero two topical and interesting gazettes, a Pathe and a Gaumont, which brought recent events right before tho eyes of Feilding folk. Scenes on Lako Scutari ended with a glorious moonlight scone well worth seeing. Of the comics "The Scarecrow" was truly funny. Tweedledum played his inevitable part, this time on auto- ■ skates, and Bill concluded a good ' programme in his capacity as a gamekeeper. This programme will berepeated £*-night. PRICE'S PICTURES. Again on Saturday night the change of programme presented by Mr Price in the Drill Hall was ono of the best. Snapshots of the remains of the Liberte presented to the spectators a striking illustration of the force of the explosion which turned a magnificent warship into a huge i mass of twisted scrap iron. "Klondyke Steal' 'is a drama of Asaska. Three girls go out in search of their father's goldmine. They have guides, r who very soon afterwards steal the map and desert the girls. An Esquirno family fortunately comes on the scene and by their help aro able to reach their mine to find tho thieves in posscsiosn. However, tho thieves' are ejected by two miners who stumble into tho scene, and everything comes to a ha**'*— conclusion. --'Rose of Kentucky," the old story of two men and one maid, is brought up to date in" this picture. The scene of the story is laid on a Kcntucky_ tobacco plantation. During the picture the spcetaor is shown tho modern methods of planting the '-young plants and the difference between shade-grown and sun-grown tobacco plants. A raid by a party of night riders helps .the girl to make up her mind. "Seth's Temptation" shows how Seth resisted the temptation to shoot his rival; bub iiistcyCl ho rescued him from drowning. In *-Hungry Hearts" two small children are shown starving for parental affection. By shaming sickness tho dosired results are attained. Tho children's acting in this picture is really clever; they seem to bo enDpyifng themselves immensely. Tho lighter side of the programme consisted in a trio of side splitters,- and helped to make up a well-balanced, interesting programme, which will be repeated to-night. ,