Fair’s Picture Company.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 376, 21 August 1908, Page 2

Fair’s Picture Company.

/I’b® above company appear in Kawhia on Wednesday and Thursday Bert, August 26th and 27th. The combination have just com plated a tonr through the Sea th Sea Islands v*fibre they bad a very successful run. Quoting from the Western Pacific Herald, Fiji, it says :—«•Fair’s Picture Co. opened to a good house last njght in the town hall, and those who were fortunate enough to see them cams a was very well satisfied with the evenings entertainment. The films shown were clear, distinct, nice tones and absolute* ly with* ut that flicker so tiring to th- eye*, lhe subjects were all good and during the tims the comio ones wete being skiwn tho audience were sent into roars of laughter. A very novel and beautiful effect is produce 1 in the magic cigar box picture which shows a materialising ability that would strike envy to a professional spiritualist. Out of a Chinese pagoda looking b‘x comes a Spanish ’o>king gentseman in silk and lace ruifles and by the mere waving of his hands he makes the shme box *how forth choim girls in daneM and tableaux, great ladies and their graceful partners in a miuunet, lasses in a may pole dance, ete., the colours in each successive view seeming more equ'site then the ’at andalso a host of other films which it would ti.ke toj muca spice to describe. Msj Hettie Rosedale ar once became a g; eat favourite both for her serio and lemtifully illustrated song', an t I rove 1 herself a ver stile performer with her bell ringing tuberphone and paper foldinz specialities,” Mr Oscar Hy*tt, w.t comple esthe comb nation is a p*.an e exceptional ability, h iving been the condu .» tor of the Kotorua Government Orcbestr for two seasons running,