AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14475, 23 June 1911, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

ENDURANCE PIANO-PLAYING. The pianoforte playing - endurance contest in the Assembly Kooms attract<sd large numbers yesterday and last night. Mr Stirton played with freedom arid <ease curing the day, and in the evening, shortly before 9 o'clock a bed - was brought up to the piano, and fully he iay down, keeping the music going the whole time. He was soon in a trauce-like deep. Ho turned, uneasily from side to side, arid in place of playing _ full chords simply kept the notes gently pressed, wrests hi same position, but fingers soil striking the notes and-, occasionally varying then-.. Mr Stirfon courts tho fullest inquiry into and anyone is welcome to examine the stage. of tlie committee have beeri present on'the stage sine© the commencement of the trial on ednesday, and it may be mentioned that by 8 o'clock this morning fortyeight hours will have passed. The shifting of the piano and player yesterday morning to'the Empire Sample iyoonis and. back, was safely negotiated rea k being made in the continuity * • p l a ? u , l f At 10 - 15 iast night lie wbs bhnd-folded, and with back to the piano played, the National Anthem with strength iwd verve. There is a certain magnetism about his playing that holds y-sitora in the hall longer than they mtwnd€d. ■

Again last night a couple of-Timaru musicians, with violin and cornet, dropPf>d in abolit 10.30 and played away With the pianist till. shortly before 2 !i™;' , sl people being present at that hour. Occasionally tlie'audieinoe lvouid pick up a_ familiar melody and vocal efforts would' supplement tne instrainents. To-night the sleeping act will be repeated, and lie will also commence a full programme of popular works at 8 o'clock".

FULLERS' PICTURES; The chief form of amusement In Ti« maru Yesterday was Fullers' animated picture shows. At the mutinee iu the afternoon the building was packed from floor 'to ce.ling by an audience comprisad principally of juveniles. The n ; ew programme proved to.be esceptionally fine. A good variety of films was presented, and tlie big. audience oxprc.-Kd its approval by frequent and Jir-. i-E■ applause. One lecture in part- .! 'ihe I.ost Hibbon," worked '!: . - - a high pitch of enthusiasm. U;ls typically American, luid ■1 I 1 11 1 ' a ". s Cow'-'wys figuring in it. tlehjihted tlie youngsters. An interest. ujr love story is interwoven, and the whole depic'tion is really ail excellent one. A picture of imperial interS " scenes around the kev of » jJediteranean, "Gibraltar." "The PJ|P> , ' Tbo Martyrdom of Thomas A Beckett, was an interesting . attempt to reproduce this sen.«at.ohal lustonc ev-Jiit. The Yifeigrapli Company have excelled themselves iu ■ its production. The film is interesting ]»^tlu?W° U > , n ° beaUtlflU ColoUKd lathe Freres subjects were "Tferaple of Tl » « d \ C Plantations." Ihe fust-immsd is a Japanese subject, and depicts suine remarkable structures CW » CO " y "I'," " Huu 'l )t y Dumptv T rea - y a W >r "''ated by all, particularly th« juvenile element. "Dr Br.uu Belle and the Bank Robbery " TOS-an exciting detective story, clevnJi '■ Xtlv Clarendon Companv, ? r fi ° f - film P rotl ucejs. The JU*t remarkable picture of tlie even , G " nd number of. toesarics were a K ain shown lift ev"nl 'of'Tvr, uudl ™«'> and halfli 0 ti C tU tt £t ? PCd fU ' ly meht , ore commenceinf+lm 1 ? *l° yesterday not tlio least enjoyable featur'e was the Mnae contributed bv Fullers' in; "t l 0 ? &ra -*, Pictures would now th- ; music, and nu'i u ls "n 4 P l<?tu «s in Tithe excellent phfvin " ofd?"® y ue t *° t.ru™;,", ,lif <»•