ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2429, 18 February 1909, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

AA'ESTS’ PICTURES. AVest’s Pictures and Orchestral Band will appear at His Majesty’s Theatre on Monday next. A long selection of subjects will be projected upon the screen, chief amongst which will be a comprehensible series of animated views of Sicily before the earthquake, showing the ill-fated city of Messina —its Cathedral, thoroughfares, buildings, waterways, etc. A fine bird’s eye view of the whole city is shown with Mt. Etna, in the background, which will give an idea of the beauty of this city before the disaster. This series also illustrates the fishing industry of Sicily, and shows the fleet of fishing boats :ih worfk. Five hundred of those selfsame boats were engulfed in the tidal waive with, appalling mortality. The sulphur mines of Calabria are shown, in full working order. These mines were also totally destroyed. Some fine scenes on. the coast of Sicily and!- through the Straits of Messina are depicted. These series are of historical interest, as they arc the only pictorial record of a country now in ruins. Other pictures to he shown are some of AA r est’s latest importations of a scenic, dramatic and humorous character. The box plans are on view at Millers’.