HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE
MOMTGOMBRY.’Si BIG-BI O'GR'AP 11 AND SPECIALITY .QOMPANY*
Rcfenrihlg it oi the above comp,any, who commence a season of three nights at His Majesty’s Theatre, on Saturday next, thQ D.unedin Star says ‘‘Mr; Montgomery's mew company opened to a splendid house at the Princess Theatre last evening. Some time before 8 o’clock the whole of the seating accommodation, in [the huil'ding had heori taken up, and late comers had, to he content with stand-, ing room,, which .was at a premium oven upstairs., 'As a matter of fact, every passage and corridor upstairs and. downstairs held a crowd, and
the audience, taking Jo the programme from/ the start, everything went “ big.,” A feature was ' the Big Bio-Graph. long film, the original of which must Jtavo cost a considerable sum of money, gave the au/dieneo an idea of what an American train robbery, is like, and fairly, brought ’down the hop so.; Another, picture showing lifeboat .work on. the .Goofiwin sands, is a very fine subject, in fact one of the best pictures seen in tlier' city. The piicturo showing the life-boat being drawn by horses to; the beach fairly honk 'the house by storm, and could have easily been repeated. The pictures' are ail first-class. Besides the pictures Mr Montgomery introduces a firs/b rate vaudeville programme., The box-plan will he opened at Miller’s this morning.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1386, 22 February 1905, Page 2
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