AMUSEMENTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIX, Issue 14681, 12 May 1908, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

ROYAL PICTURES. Tho Royal Pictures opened n season, in the Colosseum last night, and the entertainment proved thoroughly successful. The pictures shown covered a large range of subjects, and they were clear and free from flicker. The size of the building enabled the management both to accommodate a very large audience and to display the films on ascreen sufficiently big to make all details dearly visible. The pictures were all new to Christchurch audiences, and Borne of them were particularly interesting and amusing. A splendid series of illustrated scenes in and around Shanghai. showed the Chinese at work and at play. The street scenes and films allowing Chinese methods of agriculture were very effective. A pretty picture, quite idyllic in conception, dealt with the adventures of Cupid in arranging tho love affaire of a modern young couple. A lengthy film showed a wedding in Brittany, and the audience was given an excellent idea of the quaint dresses and customs of the Brittany people. The endeavour of the bride and bridegroom to face tho camera in an unconcerned manner in the latter part of the picture was quite delightful. A long section of film shewed what happened to Nellie, the pretty typist, who fought the villain of her little drama with a hat pin and took refuge on the roof of a skyscraper, whence she was rescued at a. crucial moment bv the right young man. The. “little Cripple” was a pathetic picture of melodramatic character, and “1 laymates,” a child and dog study, was another picture of this character. Several most amusing comic films wore included in the programme. • “ The Lazy Man” and “Bathing Under Difficulties,” being particularly funny. Iho programme will be repeated this evening. ~ , The management announces t-nat- itwill make a complete change of programme every Thursday evening, and will give a matinee every Saturday afternoon, commencing this week.

OPERA HOUSE. AA r ith a very able company, which this week includes among other artists, Mr Fred Graham and Miss Nellie Dent, Mchne Blanche Carelli and Les Reggiardos, Fuller’s Ateudeville Company scored another emphatic success at- the Opera House last evening. There was a largo audience, which received the artists with many marks of appreciation. The programme will be repeated this evening.