West’s Pictures and the Brescians

Southland Times, Issue 19553, 6 May 1905, Page 2

West’s Pictures and the Brescians

Whoso opening performance in the Zealandia Hall on Monday is being looked forward to with interest, concluded their season in Dunedin on Wednesday night. Altogether nearly forty thousand persons have paid to' see the entertainment during their stay. An entertainment that can draw a number equal to four-fifths of the population of Dunedin must have more than ordinary merits. It is the happy culmination of art in pictures and art in music that is the keystone of their success and the surpassing excellence in each section that captures Hie public. Mr West has exhausted every naan.* to achieve perfection in animated photography, and the microscope, the steroscope and colour photography have been pressed into his service. There, witli a powerful electric light projection upon a screen of 500 square faet have produced a revolution in cinem it-j?rtihic efiects. The Brescians ar a choir of solo singers whose part singing alone vuutil i.ke a reputation, but that *s -.*: y an itew of their versatile reportoire. ’J bey term a splendid orchestra, and as individual

artistes, their appearances arc a succession of successes. The hall will be brilliantly .lit with electricity, Mr West carrying his own plant, for that purpose.