EDISON’S POPULAR PICTURES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 885, 21 February 1907, Page 17

EDISON’S POPULAR PICTURES.

A NEW SERIES. Edison’s Popular Picture . Company under the management of Messrs Andrews and Bailey will make a return visit to Auckland next month, opening at His Majesty ? s Theatre on Monday, March 11. Mr Andrews writes to say that the Company has had a most successful run at the Lyceum Theatre, Sydney, and Melbourne. The pictures to be shown this time are an entirely new series, and include “The Great Marble Industry,” “Baseball in America,” “The Winter Straw Ride,” “Life in an American Coal •Pit,” “Grand Rapids of Ozu,” “The American Beauties,” “The Beautiful Fairies of the Spring,” “A Great Meeting of Indians,” “A' Message from the Sea” (said to be a most' beautiful subject), “Coney Island by Night,” “Stormy Winds Do Blow,” “The Arabian Nights,” the last Melbourne Cup showing New Zealand horse Solution leading into the straight and Poseidon winning. “The Grand Parade of Horses” (these pictures were specially taken for the Edison Company of America) and many other subjects which make the programme a feast of pure merriment and refined fun. This company when here -last certainly gave one of the finest picture shows ever submitted to an Auckland audience, and theatregoers should not miss seeing their new series.