PICTURES, OR-

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 386, 12 August 1911, Page 5

PICTURES, OR-

We candidly admit we are not responsible for declarations made in our advertising columns, and therefore we cannot offer apology if statements made by travelling show are not verified. Nevertheless it is decidedly annoying to find the public are misled. On Wednesday evening a wandering companv advertised to give an exhibition of "Famous Pictures." As affairs transpired, the show had three main features: a peanut feast, a disquisition en fools, and what is best termed "an optical diffusion." After fully deliberating on and weighing of the merits of these features one vote is herebv recorded in favour of the peanuts. The pictures were of the order well and sadly rerrembered as belonging to the days when there was at least one other valid excuse than a busy night at the office" to explain away "that next morning head." There was one film that flickered its way across the screen at which people were vide advt.. to scream with laughter; but really the subject was in unblusbingly bad taste, and no one laughed. The out of date gag of substitution of various noises behind tne screen was another distress signal. The "who were the fools" discussion between one declaredly determined person on the stage and another equally assertive in the audience seemed to be left undecided, except that the expression on the faces of the patrons of the show as they strolled promiscuously from the building showed plainly tney were prepared to admit they had been foolish on at least one occasion—nowever guilelessly. Something else occured: it was connected with a man in lugubrious attire, the stage, and a medlev of words, but the writer was too busy with the peanuts to catch a glimpse of the "spirit of cohesion."