Montgomery's Company.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3700, 17 July 1906, Page 3

Montgomery's Company.

The above always welcome combination purposes revisiting Foxton on Saturday night next with very special attractions, i'he appalling disaster which overwhelmed the fair dty of San Brancisco will be graphically and realistically portrayed, while anothei awe inspiring sight, Mt. Vesuvius in eruption, will also be vividly deoicted. Of Mr Montgomery’s exhibition of Frisco pictures an exchange says:—l here are no "* fake ” pictures. In the first of the series the picture of a long street is thrown on to the screen. At the far end the fire is raging madly, and the sky is shut out by a dense black pall illuminated ir- ** regularly by huge banners of flame. Down the street comes a procession of nondescript vehicles, piled up with household property, _ and people moving along hurriedly away from the triumphing flames, all burdened with portable goods, besides the burden of woe the disaster has heaped upon them. It is chaos in all its grandeur. The whitened, bones of the city are viewed from a travelling motorcar, which winds its way through the streets, showing vast fields ol debris, where formerly stood lines of stately mansions and manystoried buildings. One of the scenes depicts the dynamiting of a great wall —it just sinks to the ground without ostentation in a cloud of dust. Another shows an injured man being attended to and sent away in a motor-car. Then there are the ruins of the Bulletin and Post newspaper offices, the new Majestic Theatre, and City Hall.” Among new faces to appear will be Mr W. H. Montgomery, brother of the proprietor, who has just arrived from the Old Country, where for several years past he has been associated with leading operatic societies, including the well-known D’Oyley Carte Co., with whom he enjoyed a very lengthy engagement as principal baritone.