ROYAL ALBERT HALL.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1034, 30 December 1909, Page 17

ROYAL ALBERT HALL.

PATHE PICTURES. A high-class varied programme of pictures is being presented this week at the Royal Albert Hall, every picture shown being a gem of its particular kind. The hall is packed nightly and the audience appear well satisfied with the new programme. The Star film is “Life in the British Navy,” showing the bluejackets at work and play and proving instructive besides interesting. A picture which meets with the appreciation of the audience is “The Vagabond’s Adventure,” while “A Will of her Own” is another applauded. “The son’s Return” is one of the best dramtaic Aims yet shown at the “Pathe” and two excellent ones are “Magda” and “A Bunch of Lilac.” A splendid scenic film, instructive and exciting is “On a Timber Raft.” Others which go to make up a capital programme are “An Ideal Hat,” “San Salvador” and a host of comic pictures. A complete change will be made on Wednesday.

One of the scenes in “Married to the Wrong Man,” which Mr. George Marlow’s Dramatic Company opens its New Zealand tour with at Auckland, is where the villain sells his recently wedded wife to the hero, a gentleman banker, for the sum of £l5. The Sydney press have acclaimed the piece one of the most successful of its kind in recent years, one journal remarking that the “drama appears to have been written for the Marlow Company, so successful is it in every way.”