HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 494, 29 April 1909, Page 5

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Though a great many people were out last Si g » 1? see W mayoral election" and any fun that might arise, there were still'many more who found plenty of amusement at the Royal Pictures. In order that patrons of His Majesty.s wight not haye to wait to know who was their new Maypr, j,he management bad tho results- thrown on ffio Kere<n ,as soon as they were available.: The star picture of tho cven- >"?- was undoubtedly or Saved by Wireless Telegraphy, A» incident «{ the Flor-ida-Republic collision.' The film showed in vivid descriptive sty/chow the vessels sailed away,' and _ when ft heavy fog ■ descended. came into collision. Jack Binns, a wireless telegraph operator, sticks to his ppst and sets the ether waves vibrating with the news of tho wreck. '• By this means the news is' sent aorpss the sea.to the steamer Baltic, which immediately, goes to the rescue... Another Stirring .film was "Spepes from tho French' Revolutio- It shows how the aristocrats of the French Monarch were given a short trial and shorter shrift, and then let loose' amongst the Rcp.ublipan soldiers. The story embodied in tho picture is that of a loyal Frenchman who managed to save a child whoso parents had been guilty of the crimo of being rich. He carried her away from the scene of revolution pnd bloodshed'to bring her back when calm had succeeded storm. A study in ; white was "River Thames in Winter," a series of scene:! of snow-covered banks, with bare,, skeleton-like trees showing dark against the glittering background. "The Blue Legend" is worthy" of special plentiful as beiV a copd example of fh„ coloured ..film. 'Iji addition to those mentioned there are a number of other pictures of a very fine class. Tho'programme- will' be repeated to-night.