THE GLOBE PICTURES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3030, 10 April 1912, Page 69

THE GLOBE PICTURES.

Tlici'i: was cjllit-o a holiday gathering In the Garrison- Hall on Saturday nighl u> enjoy t.ho more than usually attractive series of pictures exhibited by the Globe Picture Company. All were admirable in their various kinds —comic, scenic, ,-ijid dramatic. That depicting the vast masses of black clouds rolling up from the crater of Mount Etna, taken at a.n elevation of 11,000 ft above sen level, the molten lava pouring down declivities, and the frequent spouts of scoria shooting through the pre-

vailing blackness, showed in the most striking maimer what an active volcano is really like. The sensational picture of the evening was that describing the adventure* of " A Victim of the Mormons." The story takes an hour in its pictorial telling, and' is full of thrilling incident* from beginning to end. A Mormon elder called Larson, while a guest of an English gentleman, is on his best behaviour, and proves himself so beguiling to the pretty daughter of the family that she consents to elope with him to Utah. There is a very striking tcene where Larson is shown to be using his hypnotic influence over his victim by fixity of gaze. Soon after starting on her Atlantic journey Florence repents of her weakness, repels Larson's advances to the utmost of her strength but, under the influence of an opiate forcibly administered, is landed at New York, in spite of the. efforts of detectives who are on their tracks. Arrived at Utah, the endeavours of Larson to consummate his villainy, and the heroio resistance of Florence, furnish episodes that were keenly followed by the spectators, who bore testimony to the vividness of the presentation by audibly expressing disappointment when Larson's cleverlyplanned evasions of detection wero successfill, and by hoartqr applause- when the English brother and lover come to the rescue, and Larson is ehot dead in tlie cellar where his victim -Was hidden and ill-treated. Other films gave file spectators plenty to heartily laugh at, particularly that in which was depicted the mischief that a small boy can do when presented with a chest of tools and allowed a free hand in their u<so. With these th» boy wrecked his parents' best, furniture, flooded tho kitchen, reduced the drawing room floor to shavings, and finally—if the trick camera may be believed —sawed oil a fat lady's head and stuok it On again with the contents of his glue-pot.