AMUSEMENTS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 118, 16 May 1912, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

BRITISH PICTURES

The Town Hall held a good audience last night, when the current.■ progjnunme of pictures was sarmitted by tho British Picture Company, and was received with un feigned enjoyment by those present. Dramas, some bordering on the realms of sens&tionr.liism, were para--mount throughout, and some very interesting stories were depicted- i:v meojis of the machine. The picture "Cain" was one of notable dramatic intensity, und represented a. bucolic love story, in which the acting wtcvs don© by leading artists. The form girl gives her affections to one wooer, and spurns the advances of another. The jealous rival slays the successful lover, a.nd the crime is brought homo to him by the imprint of a blood stained hand on a vrall. He suffers tliio tjortures; of Oain, ejid rushes away to a pool. His overheated faiicy &&.*<: his victim beckoning him! into the wa-tei-v and he drowns■•himself.' "Tho Tragedy in,Toyland'' was unique, ata! 'was;■'. :"i remarkable revelation of iibe art of. instilling life into automatons Several figures by '■': some siibtl o mechanical process? were mad© to perform a whole series of life-like evolutions;, which include a. love scene. Altogether, it was a unique* pieturo. A drama with ajii ethical tone was "A Drtinkajrd's Reformation," whicH demonstrated how a. victim of ■■'tho drink: demon was reformed! by a Visit to a theatre, . where, ia play with a moral was being enacted. .The pro gramme consists of ■ .other firsfc-c;lus\s films, and will be shown in Blehheira again on Friday «;nd Saturday.