HAYWARD'S PICTURES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2975, 22 March 1911, Page 69

HAYWARD'S PICTURES.

Hayward's exhibitions in cinematography seem to be gaining in popularity, and each change of programme contains some gCod pictures. Foremost among the new series shown on Saturday evening was " Hamburg to Blankenese," in which all the beauty of the Elbe were made apparent. The traveller was embarked at Hamburg and taken by water from point to point, the lovely scenery met with being rendered more beautiful by the films having been coloured in the process of development. One picture—a moonlight effect, — in which pale green was the prevailing tone, was strikingly beautiful, „ " The Charm of Flowers," coloured on much more extended lines, was artistic. The pictures were works of art, and the girl impersonating Carmen was exceedingly graceful; but there was nothing very substantial about the story—evidently suggested by Bizet's opera, though not quite in accord with it As a picture, what was seen on the' screen was, however, rich and harmonious in colour, and particularly charming. There were several good dramatic representations, " Silver Cloud's Sacrifice" being one of the best. Silver Cloud is the daughter of an Indian chief, and in order to save her founger sister from the clutches of an ndian warrior, and restore her to trapper Jim, whom she loves, she acts the devoted sister, suffers banishment, and perishes alone in the forest, where her body is discovered by Jim. The, etory was well and pathetically told, and in parts there was a good deal of stir and excitement about it. " Three hearts" was billed as a comedy, but that does not describe it. With a railway accident and 'a lover_ who, when he finds himself permanently disfigured, lesigns the object of his affection to the man the girl really loves, and disappears, the dramatic element is very much in evidence and the humorous side entirely absent. It was a story of self-abnegation exceedingly well presented. Thje other dramatic film

was " Wlfcbin an, Inch of His Life," and shows a narrow eSoape- from being convicted of what is believed to be murder. The actions of one who is regarded as a shy youth, as eoon as h« experiences the exhilirating effects of champagne, were inresistably funny. He is sent to woo the young lady of the house, but the whole family happens to go out that evening, and the servants hold jubilee in absence. One particularly frisky damsel, who has borrowed some of her mistress's finery, is regarded! by the visitor as the young lady he is in quest of, and on the introduction of the wine he becomes extremely frolicsome, and is surprised in a burlesque performance of "Lohengrin" by the family, and ignominiously kicked,out. The other pictures shown were "The Gaumont Graphio," "Path© Gazette," "The Old Gamp," and "Oalino in Love,"