AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14416, 11 April 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

SKATING.. 1 The skating rink.was well ntteudoi '■ yesterday. There will be three sessions to-day—morning; afternoon, and evextr* FULLERS' PICTURES. There, wore .several filn:s of <ral*!«ind< ing merit in tire now series ysesai.uA tu ii crowded liouso in the Tboatro Royal last evening, and,the programme, generally, was an excellent one. DrAniu, . of a pleasing and wholosonva typo, comedy ol' an exceedingly clover kuw, and scenery of rare beauty .comlHneti. to ..' mako tile entertaininent •worthy, of tlw. . demonstrative appreciation with wliioli it was greeted. A highly' semmtJoni) and very original drama was tlltt which made a peep into the dlstaat ' future and showed what might bo in ! ten vears to come, the picture being entitled "The I'iraies of W20." Tho ■ marvellous manoeuvring of the whirling ail-ship and the skill of tho future 1 pirates surpassed ill sensation awl thrill even the vivd picturrs which the fertile imagination of Jules .Verne has produced. The finale of this wonderful film was the Wowing up of a helpless warship with bombs dropped by tte pirates from thfc clouds. Tho pr.-.diio-t'on of this picture must have cost , Pntlie Frercs a mint of money, for tlwi scenery and sotting are on five most ' elaborate scale. Another aviation pie- ; ture—-tin's time- to nmupe—wi'S . ''Tontalino m tho Clouds," in wTfich tlio oooontric comic artist put on u '.'turn" 1 unrivalled for originalty ami lnuglite'--producing power. "The Two Paths" was Ml and [ <?rams iii wliirli an old slory is told ' : n n nc-w -wr.y. The *-to« : nt? k<vik> •'.•.'in- , I tensely dramnlfo and toucli'ti.g. Plon*j fipf rdW was supplied by tlie coined*" I "Ati Am-cKean Count," and "The Dull P/i7nr" was an i-nius-'ng ' | "Patb'o'A Onzot+e," "Tin , I Pr<.e.ii*> of Wiliv Fimtev," "No--wcgia>. • j nnd Luelc and j nnirtlonp" !w» nil creations of nil excllcnt tvi*-*. The sumo scries will be [ srreened this evening. '■ ■