BRITISH BIOGRAPH PICTURES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12377, 10 February 1911, Page 7

BRITISH BIOGRAPH PICTURES.

: ~a». The : ushers were kept busy at His Majesty's Theatre last night, when an exceptionally large audience turned up to witness the latest in moving pictured projected by the British Biograph Company. To say the programme was a good one is but to put it mildy. It was by far the best series of films shown here' for many months. Although the star picture of "Carbine" could not be shown (being lost in transmission), the management substituted a delightful American biograph film entitled "A Summer Tragedy." This was in reality a comedy of tho most enjoyable and laughablo description enacted by the favorite artists. Two young people, one a barman and tho other a waitress in a restaurant, meet when on holiday leave, and indulge in some high pranks, eacll believing in the other's wealth and higll social position, until, as the film announces, "they woke up." Another fine American Biograph love story was unfolded in "A Summer- Idyll." well told and acted amid a number of pretty rural scenes in tho one part and gay life iii the other part. Two films by the Lubin Company, a firm coming much into prominence, were "Tho Sherriffs' .Capture" and "The Stronger Sex." The former told a Western story iii a capital wayj; and was most enjoyable for the fact of being totally different from any previous .subject of the Wild West variety. Several magnificent scenic and instructive items were screened, tho beat of this department being "Feeding Seals at Catalin.i Island', in California," and some delightfully dreamy views of 'Switzerland taken on the lakes. The comic pictures were yery original. "Tbntolini Wants Money" showed this clever comedian in one of the funniest roles ho has yet appeared in, and another "Kill that Fly" was responsible'.' for the destruction of more household property than has - yet been broken up in any single picture. But then this is done so easily by the biograph. To-night will' bo the last opportunity, of seeing this splendid programme, and if tho merit of pictures counts for anything there should be another crowded house. Seats may be reserved at Miller's.