ENTERTAINMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 340, 25 February 1911, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EMI'IHE LIVING PICTURES. The programme to bo produced by the above company at Te Kuiti Hall on Monday night is very highly upoken of by the Hamilton papers. It was put on at the Town Hall there on Wednesday night before a large audience, and the "Argus" of Thursday's issue, contains the following flattering notice: —"Every taste was liberally catered for, from grave to gay, and scenic to tropical. Lovers of dogs should not miss the opportunity of seeing the really wonderful collection of aniamls shown in the picture depicting dogs of all nations. Dogs from almost every country in the world are to be seen, and this pieturo alone is well worth the price of admission. The ascent of Mont Blanc is also a splendid picture; the dramas exciting and interesting, and the comicalities of "Tweedledum as a Jockey," in which that great comedian is seen competing in a cross-country steeplechase, is the most laughable picture one could imagine. The whole programme bristles with good things, and should prove a great draw."

THE HIPPOPOTAMUS

The first specimen of this uncouth and powerful amphibious monster introduced into Australia is "Lizzie," which arrived in Melbourne on October f.th, 1910, direct from Hamburg, Germany, where it was purchased by those enterprising circus proprietors, Messrs Phil, and George Wirth, who paid to Carl Hagenbeck, of the Hamburg Zoo, £1250. The animal, which is only a little one, two years old, and weighs three tons, arrived in the best of health in two huge, boxes, which were kept on deck; one served, as its bath, being lined with zinc and filled with fresh, clean water daily, :uhl the other served as its cage, where it returned every evening into a nice dry bed of Straw. These animals live m water by day and on dry land at night, and require great care and -attention, for although not. :<» delicate as tie' g i ratio 1 the linn's pre v ioii.i ven tmvj. it must, have a man continually m attendance, and ..pecial food and regular hones for din mg. There can be no ii 11 u b I, as to the rapid extermination o C ! hi.; animal, as it can he easily shot, j a 1 if lives in or near the wafer it much sough t after. The llesh is com aide red good a . sn article of food, the hide and tusks are oi c>mside I. ai e value, and its pr-v-onc." in Ihe rivei s is cons id •' re. 1 ue.de arable to boatmen and others. The imhi\ of Kuroj.ean.-i and tin- civ 11 isa.!. s m oi A U'ica will, It) a verv few years he the cause oL tne U) |,a| "extermination of this leviathan s pec i cs, which is not. lihey lo be ,!,,ni" .Heated or rend.-i'-d Serviceable i.„ mankind. When these animals ii-'coine excited, or till!, ol temper tin* strange phenomenon of the "Moo'.!jweat" appears on their .sk.in.-j. Ibe pale, chocolate colour oi their skins becomes densely covered with globular red spots, which loo!, hl.e plums in a huge plum pudding, mM which leave a stain upon a handkereluel ..r cloth. The circus will open m 1 a Kuiti on Tuesday fth March, lor one night only. The large s.oo will be Open from -1 to 0 in the afternoon.