HAYWARD'S PICTURES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3006, 25 October 1911, Page 69

HAYWARD'S PICTURES.

The new programme of pictures submitted at the Burns Hall on Saturday afternoon and evening was enjoyed by largo audiences. As usual, the series includes a wide variety of films prepared by wellknown makers. The first on the programme was a set of pretty views of the Isle of Wight, showing yachting in the harbour at Cowes, the beach promenade, Alum Bay and the Needles, and Ryde and Sardown piers. Another picture of, educational value illustrated the city of Stamboul. with its mosques and street markets and cafes, and its curious graveyard. " Greedy Reptiles and Their Ways " made a very interesting and at times - amusing study, but the value of the picture would have been increased by a fuller description of the animals shown. Among them were frogs, turtles, and lizards, and a queer little creature that seized its prey by shooting out a tongue as long as its body. "The Mystery of the Bridge of Sighs" was, as its name indicates, a Venetian drama, in which a nobleman, seized and falsely accused of treason, drops through a trap-door in the bridge, and is rescued' by his prospective son-in-law, waiting in a gondola below The "Enchanted Glasses" was a brightly _coloured picture, presenting many of these - sudden and bewildering transformations that never fail to hold the. attention. " Silver Threads Among the Gold" was a, pretty idyllic story of an old husband's ioyal devotion to his old wife, who feared she had lost her charms. While the picture was being shown Mrs MartinelHi-Reggiardo sang with excellent effect the popular old ballad of that name. "The Primal Call" was a somewhat impossible story of a young lady engaged to an odious millionaire, who allows herself to be captivated and captured by a "primal man" in the shape of a rough mate of a coastal schooner. Another drama recounted the detection of a poisoning crime through the close observation of a little child. Among the "comics" were "Smoking Chimney," "A Quiet Pipe" (which was broad burlesque on the helplessness of a village fire brigade), and "Troubles of a Bailiff." One of the best was " Stubbs's New Servants," which is based on the amusing misunderstanding caused by Mr and Mrs Stubbs erch dressing up a man servant and a maid servant in their old clothes. When the servants make love both master and mistress think they have caught each other behaving disgracefully with the servant. The end is all that could be wished.