ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2735, 14 February 1910, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

PATHE PICTURES

His Majesty’s Theatre was again well patronised on Saturday night to witness the change of programme of the Pathe Pictures. The bill of fare comprised by the new series is of a most instructive, exciting, and laughtercompelling character, and the audience testified their unqualified approval by frequent outbursts of hearty applause. Perhaps the most nteresting was a fine film showing faithful representations of “The Rulers of Europe.” The clockmaking industry was a splendid industrial film, shown by the courtesy of H. Williamson. Ltd, tlie well-known manufacturers of London and Salisbury. The perilous life led by those who inhabited! the backwoods of North America when the Red Man held dominion was brought vividly before the audience by moans of & fine film, entitled “.Leather Shocking or the Last of the Mohicans.’’ “The Slave” is a fine picture, which tells the story of a Roman girl who rejects the suit of » nobleman and accepts a poor sculptor. Poverty forces her to sell herself as a slave to save her beloved ones. She is bought by the nobleman whoin she rejected, but on her explaining her distress to him liis better nature triumphs, and she is returned to her husband. “The Airship Destroyer” was a film which gave an impressive representation of what warfare in tlie future may resemble. Another of the exploits of the famous detective, Nx:k Carter, was given, wherein lie successfully elucidates the mystery of continual thefts at a railway station. Among the other attractive films contained in the present fine series may he mentioned “The Lord Mayor’s Show, 1909,” “Life on the Zambesi River,” and “The Arrival and Reception in Sydney of Lord Kitchener.” The comic pictures caused great merriment, “The Adventures of Fifine,” “Circumstantial Evidence,” “An Interrupted Rendezvous,” and “Mr. Jones Burglar ’ comprising an excellent series of laughter-compelling films. There will be no exhibition of the pictures this evening owing to the Tneatre being otherwise engaged, but the attractive programme exhibited on Saturday will be shown to-morrow night for the last time.

“CARTER, THE GREAT.” Caider. the magician, who appears at His Majesty’s Theatre, for a limited engagement, commencing on Wednesday night, brings with him besides a most attractive entertainment, multitudinous encomiums from the press or the world. Some of his illusions are said to border on the supernatural and quite confound the minds of his auditors everywhere. In this age, when incredulity concerning all things seems to be popular, the work of the ordinary magician has about it little of that subtle charm that was supposed to surround the conjuring conceits of the magicians of the days of old. Carter s entertainment, however, is distinctive in the fact of his doing more than at iirst blush seems possible. At his behest prepossessing young ladies from tlite heart of the Punjaub, in India, appear to defy the laws of gravity and float through space: spirit forms appear and shake hands with their friends, beautiful flowers are materialised and mysteriously passed to ladies in the audience by hands plainly seen, automatons think and calculate, human forms appea r and disappear at will, insensate pieces of wood pass through a sea-change into live guinea, pigs, live geese come from apparently nowhere, money showers out of the air, auditors’ chosen playing cards dance frolicsome antics, and the bowl of Cleopatra changes from one place to another at. the will of the conjuror, box plans are now open at Miller’s >r.

“DANDY DICK.” CROCE - Dick,” the comedy to be by Miss Rosemary Rees on (night- next, will be persented s the strongest cast of amaseen on the local stage, and Aged with great attention to c characteristic of local pro“inder this management. The , , TT is as follows: The Re.v AgusALL ean 0 f gt. Marvell’s), Mr. rvvrup^nnedy; Sir Tristrani Mardou, ONCH.. r ax .Jackson : Major Tarver, is Cumming: Mr Darbev, Adair; Blow (butler at iTTe J. B. Kells: Noah TopP',/oS.iceman), Mr. W. Hoff; in (a- groom). Mr. Harry BarHome and Sheba (the Dean’s ers). Mrs. A. F. Kennedy and Phvllis Lusk: Hannah Topping. Graham ; Georgina Tidman (a the Dean’s sister), Miss RoseS*ees. The box plans will be / filler’s corner at 10 o'clock morning. 1 ' <■ " 1,11 !■!■ ■■■■!■■