OPERA HOUSE PICTURES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9360, 8 November 1910, Page 5

OPERA HOUSE PICTURES.

ANOTHER SPLENDID PROGRAMME,

The programme screened at the Opera House last night was one full of pleasing and popular pictures, clearly and steadily projected as usual. Some ox the dramatic-studies proved exceptionally fine, showing some wonderfully clever film manipulation, but the film which takes precedence of all others is "i t" 6 scenic division, and is that of Milan Cathedral. It shows the building in detail and in panorama. Mark Twain, describing this famous structure m his, "New Pilgrim's Progress, says: At last a forest of graceful needles, shimmering in the amber sunlight, rose slowly, over the pigmy housetops—the Cathedral. Wherever you stand m Milan, or within seven miles of Milan, it is visible. What a wonder it is: so grand, so solemn, so vast! It is a, vision. A miracle ! An anthenv 6ung_in stone, a poem wrought m marble ! The building is five hundred feet "J, hundred and eighty feet wideband the principal, steeple is, 400 feet high. It has seven thousand one hundred,, and forty-eight marble statues, one thousand five hundred bas reliefs, and one hundred and thirty-six spires-all of marble, from the same quarry. ; These details are all faithfully depicted; in„ the fine series of views of the great edifice, .making the film rank high as an educational factor from the realms of picturedom. Another film.of great beauty is aPathe colour set of the "Tea Industry. The whole of the intricate manipulation, ot the leaf is shown, from the picking to the tasting, and every operation is lull of interest and instruction. The Pathe Gazette contains one of the biggest and best budgets of events yet seen, me arrival of Crippen, in the Megantic, Lowestoft Regatta, Chatam Naval a,nd Military Tournament, inauguration ot football Season in England, and Moissant s , Flight across the Channel, are just a.j few of the important events chronicled bv the famous cinematograms. A Military Tournament" in England received quite an ovation, the push-ball match on horseback, and the wrestling and tentpegging revealing the splendid horsemanship of the English Hussars to perfec- ( tion. The dramatic, section contains several original and cleverly-planned dramas, one of which, the ' Robbers of Bengali's Cave," unfolds a story of daring and treachery. Another splenchd study, entitled the "Great North West, is a melodrama of stirring interest from the backwoods of Canada, and _ a Child s Faith," from the A.B. Co., is a pathetic story, carried through in the company s usual vigorous manner. The 'Doctor ol the Foothills" caused roars of laughter, . and was genuinely humorous. The doctor being a lady, the men of the foothills all grow sick in a very mysterious manner and are cured in a way, formal and , sudden, which effectually prevents a recurrence of the malady. Altogether, the Programme is one of the finest combma:As£. ® Mslsya. once more projected.