"LIVING LONDON."

Poverty Bay Herald, 17 April 1906, Page 2

"LIVING LONDON."

• Tins kin«|matograpU is developing new uses. The day of .the old-time fa|to pictures, of mystical illusions, misfortunes to po.'icemeii, ■ and even the popular. "oWe" scenes, is passing, and the picture enterUiiument' How takes on tflui educational phase, and is used for teaching people geography and giving them. an. intimate acquaintance 6f.*he world's wonders, It was a, liajipy thought whifch induced someone to put on the film myriads of pictures ofj Uritain'si metropolis, and to send them forth to the colonies overseas, for exhibition, under the attractive title of "Living London." .There are probably few people in British lands .not Irovjng ' already b#n there who have not at one time or bnjother desired to visit London Every yea? the stream of pilgrims for this modem Mecca increases m volume, and juut ab present" when, thaukg to a prosperous wool season, there is 6Uch a rush of Wjool'kiugg and others to the Homeland, | it is appropriately consoling that those •who, tlmnigh stress of cir-» cumstanc6s| are compelled to remain behind, should have some- opportunity ' of seeing for themselves/ in living reality, chough majiy thousands 'of miles distant, the scenes of the great metropolis, towards which the faces of t He. fortunate people are turning. I'liis they are enabled to <ldj through the enterprise of the Messrs Tail;, who iiave come to New Zetland as eiiirepeneurs <jf big things. That they hjive been prompt in seizing the opportunity^ to present this great attraotipu to ;bb© Kew Zealund public may be gauged froiii the fact that "Living London" has <inly just completed its Melbourne seafion, and during Eastex* is being shown nightly in the Sydney Town Hull, it haying proved a. great draw in the Australian capitals.- Tho exhibition given in. Hjs Majesty's Theaire last ev«ning'w'as witnessed b ( f a monster audience, every pmt of the house being packed. Xhoee present included many not often seen in the theatre — old Londoners anxious to renew their . acquaintance with tho . ancient oH.stw.hlch oasts eucb. a spell of affectioa over. its children; colonist^ wlw» have been to London, and desired to secure . a piling climpse of places they liave visited j and jn ew Zealaudens, young and old, who have never been there, and some, perhups, who never will get there, to whom aj|i hourY* jaunfc round London by kinetnatograph is a, fuitisfying treat, Tlio entertainment gives one a splendid idea of the great city, with its teeming millions— "that monstrous tulwrosity of civilised lifji, tho capital of England," at* Carlyle dcsteribeil it. Tljo Bpectator. in taken by onuiibus through the crpiyded streets, ho is raised to eminences, tfhenoe he secures <*! bjrd*s-eye view of toe e|io.r» moii6 tvaflid,* the houses of Farlianient, St. Pa-nl's, the Tower Bridge, and itnany uf the notable "lions" are paraded before him;, he is taken tlirougk tlic slums of Wliitecliape|, and giyeii'-a rcalistiq \nu pression of iits noii(y throng} the pavement yeiidojjs, eagerly crying thplf M'ai'ea, are introdutled one by one j and a hun. drod and o»i« other . familiar ocence and pei*onalitie«l are ' brought iinder notice. lii brief, -in; the space of an.hottp, the spectator is! takei) on a trip through » Londqn that ;t would prpba])ly (ake'the visitor a week or iyfo to accomphHh. pictures, wliiktiii' every way <jjfceHeijt, 'failed Bome»ivhat •hi their educative'mission through the absence of any accompanying 1 description. Scene after scene flashed "on' tlie screen iii rapid succijssion, until the beholder, unable to follow the printed programme, ho<«i fouud himself lost in London, and unable to comprehend the nigniticance of many of tlie views pwseiitea. The tiret lujilf ol the evening wag taken up with a series of si)lendid view's from 1 iranee. uicludiiiij sceiies jri the gipat Creusot irpitworks, wliew the processes of maMng Bessemer steel anct turiiing out huge guns admirably illustrated; $ very tine fi|m', showing the runniiig iii the' French isteepleclmse, and tncidentnlly the full of several horseK jn the rape s the beautiful fojitttains of Vei-saillea; and a number of humoi-otis subjects. A Capital picture; showing tlie landing of tho '"All IJlacksV at AUckfahd, was afeo on4j of the features of t^ie evening. At ijiteiTals in each part songs were sung by Mr Sydney Monk, w'lio ib po«s«6«0d of 'a stroiig and refilled ' ttei>p>* voice.. The pictures .were shown by tric light, wiiich is the seoret of BuccesM in kiifeiuato^riiphy, and were voted by many t u bo tin? O(x?c over exlpbitpd jn Gisborne. 'I^lie seasoiii is litiiited to two nights mor4 with a matinw to-movrow aftenioou. j '