ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3229, 27 May 1911, Page 11

ENTERTAINMENTS.

PATHE PICTURES. A programme of pictures, which gives every promise of outdoing in popularity all programmes previously shown in Gisborne, is to be screened, at His Majesty’s Theatre this evening. The pictures comprising the series were specially selected by the management’s southern agent, who is to be heartily congratulated on having secured such an extensive assortment of the most up-to-date and beautiful films procurable. The Grand National Steeplechase, run at Aintree, forms the subject of one of the most exciting pictures ever seen in the Dominion, and its success elsewhere is said to have been established instantaneously. Twenty-six of the grandest horses on the track line Tip to the barrier; there is a flash; and they dash away on a four-mile chase for victory. The race is a veritable chapter of accidents, and many of the horses fall. The first fence brings down Tranion 111., the second Lord Rivers, the third Foolhardy, the fourth Flaxen, the fifth Garsey, and in this fall Roman Candle and Schw-armer are also made to come to earth. So on goes the long list of mishaps, first one and then another rider coming to grief. A loose horse, whose rider has fallen from him at a jump, gallops across the track and collides with Circassian’s Pride, who falls. The race progresses, horses often being remounted after coming down at a jump, amid the gesticulations and swayings of the gigantic crowd. Glenside, his tongue hanging out while he is negotiating the last quarter-mile, finishes with two tired horses, the only others of the twentysix to finish, away in his rear. The operators, who were stationed at different points on the course, succeeded in obtaining picture records of every accident, and this in itself makes the picture phenomenal. The dramatic subjects include some stirring depictions, the best of which is said to be “An Exile’s Love.” This is a story in which a young and handsome German prince, who' has been unfortunate in his own country, makes his way to America, and there secures a position as a gardener to a colonel, whose beautiful daughter he falls in love with. He succeeds in winning the girl’s love, but the colonel opposes the match. However, a cable, arriving just in time, stating the young man’s identity, and that his estates have been restored, saves the situation, and leads to a happy ending. Other numbers of this programme are “Through the Clouds,” “The Queen of Hearts,” “Scientific Bee-farming,” “Chinese Amusements,” and “Fatty Buys a Bath.”

LECTURE ON THE 1 SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. An entertainment of unusual merit and importance will he held in Holy Trinity Schoolroom on Tuesday evening next, May 30th, at 8 o’clock, A lecture isi to be given by Rev. H. TV Rawnsley on “My Journeys in the South SPa Islands.” The lecture, which is being given in connection with the Church of England Men’s Society, will be illustrated by slides through a powerful oxy-hyd'rogen lantern. Air Rawnsley, who holds a master mariner’s certificate, has spent some time in the South Seas and has seen stirring and perilous times among the savage islanders. The slides are taken from original photographs secured at the time. There will be musical items during the evening. The admission is one shilling for adults, children half price. The Men’s Society will devote the proceeds to parochial works.