MONTGOMERY'S PICTURES AND ENTERTAINERS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 81, 8 May 1908, Page 3

MONTGOMERY'S PICTURES AND ENTERTAINERS.

— 'Tis not so long since it was more of an ordeal than a pleasure to attend a moving picture entertainment. Such rapid strides are being made in the way of improvements to the projection apparatus that the advent of the entertainment of this nature is eagerly looked forward to. Especially _so is this the case when the entertaiment has such a splendid reputation as that of the Dominion's oldest and most constant exhibitor, Mr Edmund Montgomery. For II years that gentleman has catered for New Zealanders in a most liberal manner, and, by always keeping in touch with the world's best markets, has been able to put on a show second to none. Since the last visit to Dunedin the whole of the colony has been visited, the chief cities many times, and as good as previous companies have been, the present is said to be by far the best combination ever under the control of Mr Montgomery. The pictures are the latest obtainable, and to quote the bills are " educating, entertaining, exhilarating." The entertainers are headed by the proprietor himself, who, always a first-class balladist, is now singing better than ever. The Company 1 appears in the Te Kuiti Hall on Saturday evening. One of the many new pictures to be shown here by Mr Montgomery is " Curfew Shall Not Ring To-night,' a tale of love and sensation in the days of Cromwell. " The Carnival of Nice, 1907," is said to be a very beautiful film, of a weirdly grotesque and spectacular kind. " Cadet Evolutions " is a picture of educational value, and another film depicts "La Milo "in public and private life._ Real life in a great city is shown in the picture entitled " The Orphan Girl," and a Biblical subject, the cause of much recent controversy, is " Parsifal," a story founded upon the restingplace of the Holy Grail. Humorous pictures are also to be shown, and the entertainers will supply new and varied items.