AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14484, 4 July 1911, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

SKATING. Interest in the merry wirter game continues at a high pitch, there being a leaven of newcomers .-n the floor yesterday. To-day, tile rink will be open, morning, afternoon, ; i j evening.. FULLERS' PICTURES. A specially strong programme, rich in pictorial drunia., was offered to a crowded house ia the Theatre Koyal last evening, and tlio entertainment was greeted with the warmest approbation. The new films are an evenly meritorious lot, the series not being of the "one star" type, though there are certainly one or two subjects ahead of the others ill the race for popularity. Pride of place must be to the faultless pictorial adaptatim of Marie Corelii's stirring novel "Tiielma." The several strong characters -,n the romantically Historical story, were well interpreted by the picture artists, who succeeded in holding the interest of the audience from end to end of the lengthy film. Tha settings for the drama were appropriate aiuTlavish and the costuming elaborate. A. splendid view of the interior of nst' r Abbey, with its monuments. was given in a picture descriptive of the preparations that were bsing male for the crowning of the Empire's monarch. Military drama of a realistic and 'sensational type was given in the "The Flag of his Country," a p:eture full of

stirring episodes. Trick ft 1 ins are invariably welcom-3, but purely none shown previously has drawn so much attention as "Tluj Magnet, ' during the unwinding oV which sottj© of the cleverest, quaintest and 121 >st interesting experiments were conducted by a main with a nw-mmoth magnet. An eccentric picture man named Swank succumbed to th>> speeding craze and speculated in a motor cycle, which took him to the queerest 'of places, dashing through solid' walls and carrying everything with it. Pome good snapshots were secured for the latest edition of Pnthe's Gazette, including tfhe first flight >f an Army aeroplane, which ends disastrously. about the streets of tli-> world's nvtroplis. on the occasion of the opening of the Empire Pa.geant by the King at.d Queen, as pourtrayed in 1 film, were educative to all. 4< A Tenderfoot's Hound-up" was a pretty drama, in which a glimpse 1 of the free and easy life of the ranc&« men of the West was given. The neww est arrival in the world Vt pictorial comedy is plain Bridget, a "burly Parisian artiste, wlio, in company with an equally corpulent companion/ kept the crowd in laughter in "the ?;de-splittiug Pubiect "Queen For a Day." ttr ßie Bottle -of Milk/' the last jy'cture on the list, \vns an uproariously funny comic, which p>it the atidi* tors in the very hnrmiest r.f mood*,to for horn" -1 . The music of Mrs Hurdley's well-balanced orchestra, came as n. cond : ment to the variod of films, and gave pood in the overtures. There was no intervnl last nip-Tit, ovvinq to-the lateness of the entertainment besrinning, through ■ temporarv trouble with the lisht for I tfhp machine. Tr-night, -a viirht good evening can be spent at tlv? Theatre.