AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14660, 30 January 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

HA"i"WABDS PICTURES. Signor Mariinengo displayed unprecedented brilliancy in Ms bailing of the 'cello at. the Lyceum last evening, his performance of "Home Sweet Home" causing a furore of applause, while numbers of tnose present wera plainly affected. He was in better form than on any other night since the season started, and had to respond te> numerous recalls. Hie illustrated song "Daddy." and "The Toreador," also took well. The pictorial gramme was quite up to the Lyceum's high standard. "Xho Ends of the Earth" is an interesting story; hot its chief value is the Al.-igV-m scenery in which it is set. The heroine's rida in a. dog-sleigh is a. valuable novelty. "Five of Hearts" is a. good "cowboy" film. '"Grecian Games" by a clever acrobatic troupe is good, and others are well up to the best, The orchestral accompaniment is excellent; th-3 overture "The Jolly Blacksmith" is "Cod "descriptive music, and some other items will be recognised as old favourites, before the kriematograpa was invented. FULLERS' PICTURES. There can be no doubt thai fir realam and dazzling sensanora, "'The Battle," an A_B. drjma, urojarrej i-e----fore a. numerous attendance at Glv>i>pia last evening, would »e hard* to exceh The story scintillaiea with hair-raising incidents, making stirring battle scenes. In their chisf a:ju, ihe producers have brt-u eminoaily successful ; so_ successful ihat the imagined fight is as one of the memc.rabUj stjruggles of '6l, the participants *ntering into the conflict like men possessed of evil spirits, mowinc one another down and as though in dead earliest. Through the picture there runs the usual love story, the hero being a youthful recruit who, though at Sisi riantsstricken at the ceaseless cra?k 'A the rifles and the deafening boom 'jf the guns, iu.ikes amends by performing daring deeds of heroism succeed in saving his comrades. A L.ibm comedy, "The Scheme ihat Failed" was a cleverly pictured hu-r>orjD3 story. An adaptation of R. S. BlscJTmore's "Lorna Doone," by :ra American producer, was successful in tlisplaying the unqnonrhab'ie lov? of Joan Ridd for the lady of tie title role. The acting of a child is an outet-i-rl-ing feature. "Oban and Dunoon Games" introduced an Highland sports gathering which w well worth seeing. It conelndes a capital - dancing display. * The sicry of a man who sinks in life too much familiarity with iha "cup that cheers," and is hoisted ajrarn to the surface of respectability is tinfolded in "The Cure of John Douglas." Old favourites, including t!Jp inimitable fat butler, are introduced in the Yitacraph Company's comedy "Her Hero." "Tvneels <i Jusii'V was a drama of pronounced {srcilleor-e, photographically and otherwise, nr. automatic photocrsph, taken m -Hie dead of night, clearihjr up a my.stery. "Cuglin" was a splendid joeaw, J>rinj views in a nighly picturesq-no country. Just on one thousand feet of delightful- humour, delineated by the cl-.TO Tifi-i. children, was reeled off in "IBt Sister's Children." Ho UKbUQIO; played excrfbirtHg.