FULLERS' PICTURES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2985, 31 May 1911, Page 69

FULLERS' PICTURES.

The house at the Princess Theatre on tho 30th was most encouraging to the management. The pictures submitted again gave ample evidence of the fertile ingenuity and enterprise that is now brought to beai* in the production of cinematograph films. It would be difficult to say which was the star picture of the evening, but certainly one of the very best was a series of views of beautiful Austrian scenery entitled " Riva and its Lake." The pictures were" taken both from the shore and from a steamer on the lake, and showed many dashinsr, leaping falls and views of the gloomy, for* bidding old castle of Malcasine. Another film presented some fine Swedish scenery as it appears to the traveller by train, dashing over foaming mountain torrents or winding along a forest-clad gorge, or looking out over wide stretches of rolling forest country with a light coating of mow trassforming all. The Pathe Gazette, though inclined to be scrappy, was undoubtedly interesting and informative. It portrayed, inter alia, recent events in horse-racing and sculling, a strike of factory girls at Camden Town, the German Emperor at tho launching of a giant warship, and Queen Alexandra embarking for Italy. Another picture of considerable interest and value gave glimpses of the famous Crystal Palace and of typical scenes about the grounds and zoo/ An exquisitely-tinted film by Gaumont illustrated a number of wellknown flowers, cuch as those of tihe eucalyptus, the pine, the ivy, the mimosa, and the ash, and cycla.mcns and violets —all in most artistic Kitting. "Cain" was a wellacted sensational melodrama-, in which a lover murders his rival and has the crimo sheeted home to him by the impress of his blood-stained hand. In "The Old Water Jar" the aged l Indian chief Paw Puk, who is shunned by his people is seen sitting and recalling the stirring, though horrible, deeds of his youth, which he had recorded in paintings rrund the jar. He realises that it is his career of crime that makes his people shun him, and promptly turns over a new leaf. The story of the attempt to rob a bank by means of drugging and impersonating the manager was dramatically and powerfully worked out. Tho manager's fiancee plays a bold part in bringing about the confusion of the plotters. " Little Souls " was a pretty little story of a child brought' up among the most vicious surroundings rescued and given a fair chance in life through the innocent sympathy of the child of a luxurious home. Among tho comic pictures, "A Woman's Choice" and "The Misses Finch" were conspicuous successes. In the former two young men foolishly leave their father to take caro of "Ihe charming widow, with whom they a>o ■ desperately in love, They are deeply pained to find on their return that the object of their diesires has already made her choice. "The Misses Finch" is the work of the American Yitagraph Com-

(panv, and shows the miselv.ief that a wicked little boy can devise when ho goes to visit four maiden aunts Patrons of the Princess Theatre know so well what may be expected from Mr Martinelli s orchestra that it is almost superfluous to say that the bright and appropriate music provided throughout was a most important factor in the enjoyment of the evening.