AMUSEMENTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10230, 12 August 1911, Page 12

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE. Fuller's Entertainers pleased another holiday audience at the Opera House last evening, and all the items were encored. An impromptu buck-jumping competition arranged by Professor Karle caused much merriment, and a competitor named Kerr won' a gold medal for sticking to the pony Fritz for four seconds. The programme will bo repeated this evening, and on Monday "a change will be given. WE3T-HAYWARD PICTURES. There was a good attendance at His Majesty's last evening, when the cusrent weelc's programme was successfully repeated. The same pictures will be shown to-night, and on Monday night there will be a special attraction in the form of pictorial representation of " Henry VIII.," which was recently so successfully revived by Sir H. Beerbohm Tree. _ All the staging appliances and draperies, the lavish and picturesque costumes, the mounting of the specially prepared scenery of the play, as presented during the season at His Majesty's, Theatre, London, were set before the moving camera. Some idea of the strength of the cast may be gauged from the fact that, in addition to Sir Herbert Tree, who appeared in the character of Cardinal Wdsey, Miss \iolet Vanburgh and Mr Arthur Bourchicr were allotted leading parts, whilst such performers as Mr Edward Sass and Basil Gill, well known in Australasia were only cast for minor parts, pie company pressed into the service for the taking of the film numbered laO, and all the characters spoke their parts throughout. Sir Herbert Troo supervised the taking of the realistic film, which occupied four hours.

FULLER'S PICTURES. The current programme at the Colosseum was presented to a large audience last night, when the various films were received with satisfaction by those present. The same pictures will be sliawn to-night. _ On Monday evening Mr Fuller will present to the Christchurch public a pictorial representation of Charles Reade's famous novel, "Tt is Never Too Late to Mend." The film is a Melbourne production, but is said to equal all European films, and its ♦excellence may be judged from the fact that it was shown for _ several weeks successively at the Glaciarum, Australia's premier moving-picture house. During the Christchurch season the film will be described by Sir Alfred Boothman, lecturer, who has been specially engaged for the occasion. SYDENHAM. PICTURES. The Sydenham. Empire was well filled last night, and the programme was loudly applauded. To-day there will be a matinee, in addition to tho evening performance. A new series of pibturea will be shown, iucluding " New Living London," "English Derby, 1911," " Rabbiting in Wales," "Light in the Window," " Girl of the West," "'.The Chief's Daughter,',' and "Visit to Heligoland."