WIDE-WORLD PICTURES.

Otago Witness, Volume 06, Issue 2899, 6 October 1909, Page 69

WIDE-WORLD PICTURES.

The usual weekly change of programme' at the Princess Theatre was the means of attracting a full house on the Ist inst., and) the oustoraa>ry two hours' pictorial display, proved as enjoyable as the many previous exhibitions given by the Messrs Fuller Ifc was, however, in the second' half of tho I*rogp73i.inir*e tl*ct.f: 4&i6 b«st piotixre^. were met with. All these were exceedingly goocV. "The Foundling," an interesting story o£ a mother Deing compelled by destitution to abandon her intant child, was certainly onei of the _ finest, and " had the advantage of not being of a too-harrowing description- , and of having a .very happy termination. Am aeroplane picture was fraught with' much interest to the audience, and way a depiction of Latham's attempt to croat 'the Channel. Of course, the actual drojtf was not shown, but the battered condU tion of the aeroplape after its descent was* " The Honey Industry " was another oapi-« tal picture, and admirably illustrated tbs handling of bees and the preparation oi the ihon«y and the wax fox. market purposes. , 'The Diamond Maker'"*. was*'a refculistio sketch of how a lifetime's scientific thoug-nt and experiment was shattered-in- an instant,and the two remaining pictures' in thai Second part were - humorous: " These wefia ° Theodore's Concert," in" which the. lova - passages of one of~ tha" principal actor* got. him into a series of difficulties from, 'which he extricated "blrnseflT in varied" cj&J curious ways, and "The" Boxing Mania, • certainly one of the funniest kinematograph' pictures seen on the stage. Of the film< s-hown earlier thfe best were "Beauty Spot* on the Riviera," " The Cowboy's Sweet* heart," ar.d " The Talisman." Some ex< . ceedingly pretty scenice on the Riviera J were shown in the first, the second was a picture belonging to the thrilling order, and the lastnamed was an extremely amiising illustration of how a luck-bringer in the sb&pe of a horseshoe in the majority 0/ instances failed to work its charm.