MOVING PICTURES AT LEVIN.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 June 1910, Page 3

MOVING PICTURES AT LEVIN.

Tfi K .) OH XSOX-KETC H F,LL GLOVE COXTKST.

" Bernard's 'Pictures" drew a large and delighted audience to the Levin Town Hall last evening, despite the- unpropitifS'Us weather, and from beginning to end Itlie gathering HMi.niilV.sted the greatest interest in the exihilyiitioii. Mrs JU'i'iiar-d has suMired t'lie sole righ't of t'liy films for a .season •in Xew Zealand, and as the pirtiwes have ,iw.vcr been .shown before in New Zealand, they are hound to attract, as they attracted in Levin la.st evoiiing, widespread attention and gre-a't populaiitv ulierever thev are ex,hibitwl.

Principal inh'iTßt attached t:t t!ie fi>il-ii" ouciiii'iter l>; t>\\ immi Jolin.'■•)ii .and Ketchell lor the world's championship. Xo clearer pictuivrs of n glove fi.L'lit than these have <-vei Iteeii seiir in Xew Zealand. They have a further liiooit, 'too, in the fact t'!::iit praciic.ally they represi'iilt tlv full boxing time (if each round, the only "out out" parts being bhe. minute of '■ towel waving and the. sponging between each round. The great negro undoubtedly had a. very sevtrr- ttv-.t imposed upon him in the mutch he fought with Ket(hel, but iiinyon; , wlio views these pictures mus ! t coine away convince:! that Jchnsciii is :mh chinn])ion of finesse mid iv.so'Urcefulness, as well as of .actual loxing. The dramatic fiuiy.li of <\!ho twelve round ioiit:-st, wherein after beina; apparently knocked out. rises at the count of eigli ! t and with an entirelv uua.nticipatrd rush takes Kct-cliV-!l I'inwai-fs .and "sends him (io slee.p" is on-? of the finest expositions of ring trickiiiess ever seen in a cbiiiirpicnsliip match. It i>. plain from the picture that wlilmi Johnson "we-:it down" he was only playing the fox, airl it is dearly to be seen, •ilso, tlip.t Ketchell was deceived by the riis: , . For all who have an admiration for the prize ring there tan lw nothing better served'n.p byway of shadowy preseii'tine.n ! t than the present series *of pictures. Isy comparison with those of the. BiirnsJohn.son contest, they are rmmeasurably superior, and it may be written with confidence that when ■they reach the cities they will draw thousands of spectators 'night after lviglit.

Among the other pictures thrown on the screen whiclr -i 1111 sit rated the humorous, pathetic, and exc.itin» sife of life, were: "The Hnalrmani Diamond," " The Obliging Isar!)rr," "Tiu> Cord »f Life," and' "Catchins Crocodiles." Every di;«.tnil on a large screen was splendidly ixi'iirtrayed, .and it is no exaggeration to .'viy that the films are practicilly perfect. wa.s n.-> flicker. They are c-iitaitily th» best that have been seen on circuit in tin's part of the- do-mini-in. jind ;<ro con.siderahly better than some of the host hit's advertised in the chief cities. Much of the success of Mie iperfonnanee •is dine to M«siter Sid. Hernnrd. who operates the .machine- with all the .skill and confidence, cf the trained professional. Mr F. McCarthy i.s Mie rf'presr.iiitjHive in this country fer In'ternatio.nal Film Co., of Australia, 'and Mr A. H. Baker is tlie representative of M.rs Bernard. The |)ictin:'e.s will be yhmvn at Fox ton this evening, and their. ■ p .!:'ould by a record atteiinda.nce.