FULLERS' PICTURES.
An, entirely new series of moving pictures, which camo to hand with the Vancouver mail, enabled Messrs. Fuller and Sons to arrange a capital change of programme at tho Skating Kink, Vivian Street,, last evening. Quite a good crowd filled this popular house of amusement, where tho lilms are screened to the accompaniment of wit strains of music. The bill was headed by viuvs of tlio funeral of the late King Christian of Denmark, while recent important events in England were portrayed in the usual excellent manner by Pathe's Animated Gazette. Tho Kalem Company is ropiT.-enlcxl Ijy "The Tide of Dsittle," a touching dramatic stoTy of the civil war in America. The heroine is a young girl, who secretly loves a young soldier, who happens to be in love with thy heroine's * tister. The s-oldier, after volunteering to act as spy, is dangerously wounded, and the picture shows now tho heroine taved his life and risked her own to carry out tho wilrk, which tho wounded soldier left undone. Tho story abounds in exciting incident■•. "Just Like a Woman" is a pretty little drama, which has the usual good points of the American liiograph Company's, productions. Comedy is llio predominant feat urn of tho Lubiii Company's film, "His Little Sister." The principal ehiir.acter is the sister of a falcon-keeper out West, and ihe happens io bo to ugly that sho takes nivay the appetite of all the cowboy's. At lost tho. boys catch a horsethief, and though tho latter preffrs to hang rather than marry tho saloonKeeper's sister, tho cowboys.will not hear of it, and compel the registrar to effect tho marriage, so that the horse-thief will removo the, girl from out of their sight. "Tho First Woman Jury" is an amusing film by_ tho Vitagraph Company. Tho star picture in the dramatic lino is one. entitled "Tom Butler," tho etory of a .criminal's attempt to have revenge on his wife, who has assisted to convict him. It opens with Butler's escape from prison ou a rock-bound const. Tho wife, a pretty actress, receives a note inforniin; her of her husband's «?fape. and his intention to havo his revenge. Then sensation after sensation occurs. Buller visits her in tho . disguise of an aged nobleman, and nearly succeeds in strangling her. After her recovery she visits a sculptor's studio, ami I hero some workmen fall through the skylight, and in the confusion the actress 'is' spirited away. Villurs, a young journalist, who .is interested in the lady, picks up the clue, and, with the police, find her hanging by her bands to a tree, in peril of her life, but again Butler, <by a clever ruse, makes his escape. Then a lx uqiiet soused in a narcotic, is sent her, and whilst unconscious, Butler removes her, and is about to brick her up in eolid masonry when Villars and tho police again como to the rescue, and this time succeeded in capturing the notorious criminal, but later ho escapes, and, dashing through a window, is Killed by the fall. The picture is thrillingly exciting throughout.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1484, 5 July 1912, Page 7
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516FULLERS' PICTURES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1484, 5 July 1912, Page 7
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