ENTERTAINMENTS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2596, 2 September 1909, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

SALVATION ARMY BIOKAMA

Though Brigadier Perry, of the Salvation Army has brought his biorama to Gisborne on many occasions, it is doubtful if he and his company have ever had a more enthusiastic audience than the large crowd which filled His Majesty’s Theatre last evening. The house was an overflowing one, many people being satisfied to stand, but the programme submitted fully rewarded their patience. The entertainment was well chosen, the management was hapny in the selection of the pictures and in the arrangement of the items, so that the audience was kept continuously in the best of humor and in a happy state of enjoyable anticipation as to what was coming next. The pictures were of a miscellaneous character, the humorous predominating. The scenes illustrative of religious subjects are reserved for the sacred entertainment to be given next Sunday evening. _ The audience was treated to some delightful scenic studies. By one series of films, entitled “Beautiful Waterfalls,” the audience was taken by the magic camera to cascades at Balmoral, Scotland, to Norway, to Central America, to Central Africa, and last, hut by no means least, to the wonderful falls of Niagara, which were shown in all their grandeur. Another fine scenic study was “Egyptian Markets,” a series of scenes in Cairo and Alexandra, where people from all parts of the world mingle with the Arabs of the desert, and barter for many articles, both useful and curious. The humorous pictures were of a pronouncedly funny lype, and, while the audience was convulsed with laughter, the originality of the films evoked general praise. “Magnetic Furniture Removing” was a wonderfully well thought out series. According to the pictures, when a suburban resident desires to dq a moonlight flit it is only necessary to call in the services of an electro-magnet. With this instrument the household belongings are magnetically charged, and, presto, the furniture is magically packed, and, in the pale light of the moon, of its own accord traverses streets and lanes to the very house where its owner awaits it, and where it just as magically unpacks itself. “Madam’s Fancies*’ was another good film. Madam went shopping and bought all that took her fancy —spring hats, umbrellas,- a parrot, gold fish, a poodle dog, and, last of ah, a donkey. A good dramatic film, with some original dissolving effects, was “Lillian s Christmas Day.’' The appearance and disappearance of the fairies and angels were most convincingly depicted. Other good pictures, too numerous to enumerate, were also shown, and the audience was thoroughly delighted with the evening’s entertainment. The comSgave a number of vocal items, mng Dm part song, “Jerusalem, jMv Hapnv Home,” and the illustrated songs' ‘And a Little Child Shall Lead Thom” and “I am Tying the Leaves. The orchestra played some exceedingly *good music, including a fine selection from Balfe’s opera, “The Bohemian Girl,” and the" Silver Band played m front of the theatre previous to tlio I>e tXrmisc»Uan ? o„ S programme will be presented this evening, when overv picture will be entirely new to Gisborne. Brigadier Perry has brought sufficient films for. an entire change of programme each night and for a matinee on Saturday afternoon. - . ■ '• ■