TAIT’S “LIVING PICTURES.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1832, 13 August 1906, Page 2

TAIT’S “LIVING PICTURES.”

After an interval of many months. Messrs J, and N, Tait paid a return visit to Gisborne with their “ living picture ” entertainment, opening in His Majesty’s Theatre on Saturday afternoon with a matinee exhibition, when there was a good attendance of youog folk. In the evening the theatre held a splendid Saturday night audience, who time and again showed their appreciation of the exhibition. The pictures shown were a good seleotion of industrial, physical, geographical, mythioai, natural, and humorous subjects. Of the industrial series exhibited “ The Building of a British Railway ” was undoubtedly the best. An interesting picture was one of the large English workshops, in which was shown tho building of a railway engine, the moulding of the wheols, the oasiing of the axtesf the rivetting- of the plates, tho turning of tho rods, the forging of the chains, and the steady connection of the engine’s component parts to Ifce finished aniole as it steams to the station. The piciure is of great educational value to a colonial. Connected wiih this film was shown tho working of the railways—the switch-house with its alert ewitohm6D, the heavy and r ß pNi traffic on tho lines, and 6no Sco’ob express -’.picking up. the iq-ilia while travelling at bii miles an hour. •Tbs Launching of tho Dreadnought ” -hiiwu an cvi-nt of recent occurrence, in winch His M>-j.-sty ibe King figures pro-winn-tly This film ts the more interest-

t» !n 'hat Gi rmnuy has resolved to build

r several warships larger than tbo uought, which is the ia'ge?t warship afloat. ; i 0 physical and g- og.sph'cal piotures, “A " ,P 1^ h ' 0l: gh 1 ;a1 .Y.” “Sunny Ceylon,” e *nd Fallen ’Frisoo ” are above the i- ordinary run. f.«i the Italian pictures the fi io harbor of Genoa is shown Venice, once misvrfas of the seas, is exhibited a 3 ) f, jom a gondola—pioturesqu) buildings • rißin S abruptly from (bo water, gondolas i Pluming hither and thither, and ficaly passing under tbo Bridge of Signs ; Rome is poursrayod in its past and present, the ancient and the modern ; Vesuvius appears on the canvas; and Italian oountry is shown by railway. ” Sunny Ceylon ” transports one to the land of tho Cingalese, with jts enchanting scQacry, aud the effect is exhilarating as one* id taken' by hraij through this land of palms, The quaint native oarts altraot attention, while a mongoose-snaks fight was decidedly i.nter08ting, Elephants disportieg in ihe water was a fine picture, and was much appreciated, "Fallen’Frisco ” was a film to which great interest was attached, and it gave one an idea as to the extent of the catastrophe which befel tho Golden Gate city.- A splendid film was‘\A Trig jp a 83H00D,” depicting a town as the ballooii floated overhead, a seasoape, and the qrmameut on high. ‘ During' the evening a couple of songs were sung by Me Sydney Monk, with appreciative c-ffcqt. " ‘ To-night the 00‘mppuy show qn entirely new set of pictures, and to vyitrfssa eugb there should bo a crowded attpndanoe,