WEST’S PICTURES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1589, 20 October 1905, Page 3

WEST’S PICTURES.

AND THE BRESOIANS.

(|Wost’s Pictures Company and tho Brosoians Orohostra and Singors who open a week’s season at His Majesty's Theatre on Monday noxt, have had a phonomonal tour of this colony. Oponing tkoir Now Zealand soason at Dunedin in March last, Ihoy achieved a rooord sueooss, upwards of 80,000 persons visiting thoir ontortainrnont, hundreds boing unablo to gain admission. From timo to time various cinematograph displays bavo boon oxfa bitod in Now Zealand, but a combination of tho instrument nnd a oonoert company, built np so as to acoontuato tho efforts of oaoh—tho singing and music, so to speak, illustrating tho plotures and disolosing tho story to tho oar and oyo simultaneously—is a decided novelty in its way. West’s piolnros oorao to tho colony horaldod by a ohorns of nustinted praise from tho British press. They are a distinot ndvanoo in , oinomatography, some specially boautiful coloring examples being dosoribod as a j perfect revelation- Mr West has a company running nil tho yoar round ill Edinburgh, and wook by week has despatched to him tho latost London productions, so that an ever changing programme of novelties will bo presented to his patrons. As regards tho Brosoianß Orohestra and Singers, thoir name is a household word in the Old Homeland, aud a perusal of thoir ropertoiro is startling ovidenco of tho versatility of tho individual artists. A choir of solo singers nnd instrumentalists, who are equally at Homo in grand opera, oomio opera, up-to-date musioal comedy, modern sentimental ballads, and tho grand old songs (yet ovor new and weloomo), must provido a feast of harmony especially acceptable to oultured lovers of tho art in Gisborno. , Tho box-plans ate uow on view at Mr W, Miller’s