WORLD-WIDE PICTURES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2884, 30 June 1909, Page 69

WORLD-WIDE PICTURES.

The now sets of cinematograph picture! presented at tho Princess Theatre on th» 24th ir.st., which will constitute the attrac- ! tion for ' ; tba. week, eony>rise' some j - of" ths best films that have been presented at this popular place of amusement. " The Fear" ir a French drama of the sensational tragic type, in 'which murder, .robbery, fear, arid phantasy follow each other in a sequence which' is characteristic of tbe PaT-i6ian drama-tia school, arid which is attractive to a section.' of French playgoers. "Kenilworth," am artistic presentation of characters and incidents in Sir Walter Scott's well-known novol dealing with events of the Eliza^ betba.n period, tis a dramatic classic as staged by the' cinematograph, and commands the closest attention as the romantic and . dramatic incidents "are unravelled, j "The Animals' Friend," "Aviation." I "Foolahead's 'Wrestling;*' .and "Bertie i Buys a Bulldog" are types, of the eccentrioi- . j -tics of cinematography, which' ,n?ver fail . 1 to '-create shrieks of kug-hter owing to their • |- palpable absurdity and' impossibility. The ; launching of the French Dreadnought Vol* , Jtaire 'is a good representation of , tha methods' adopted to get one of these levia"*than into the water. A '/ Water Fete in' Mexico "is a good study iii colour cinematography, portraying a Mexican gala day- in the heat- of stommsr, and a tram, ride through the native quarters of Bombay presents a succession of scenes of 'street life ' in an attractive manner. * "Tho -Adventures of a Drummer Boy" v, an heroic episode in the life of a boy who eteals awjay from, home and follows his father to war, andi j " Church Robbers " is a little episode where i geed influences arrest a downward juvenile j caraar. Tho other pictures in tho puoI gramme are fully up to tho standard of t*i© > Wide- World spools, the whole constituting lan excellent entertainment. Tho" eraephone j character eo'os given during tbe evening 1 J were " Tho rain came pitter-patter down j ""G-stlloping" major."