AMUSEMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 679, 20 June 1914, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

EMPRESS PICTURES. To-night and Monday evening a programme of high class dramatic, comic, educational and topical subjects will support an absorbing and exciting Btar film |entit)ed "Alexia's Strategy," which has been received with marked approval wherever shown. The management have arranged to screen the greatest picture yet produced by the world's greatest photo-play producers next Tuesday and Wednesday. The opinion of the play when screened in London is* interesting, and is as follows: When first done at the Olympia, London, the drama was played by a caste of living actors, actresses and auxiliaries which is claimed is the lengthiest on record, 'or numerically there were thousands of persons concerned in the presentation. The success achieved is described as electrical. The undertaking was found to be too huge to tour, with the result that the play was accurately reproduced in motion photography, and in that form was presented at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, where it is stated to have outrivalled the iuccess gained at Olyngpia. Humperdinck's famous music faMppeen retained in its entirety and when constructing the film care waß taken that every chord should synchronise perfectly with the actions in the pictured story. The Australian tour, which was made under the direction of Mr Beaumont Smith, who purchased the rights at a high figure, began at Sydney on December 20th, 1913, where the picture is still continuing a record run. At Auckland it is said that they turned bunderds away nightly.