FULLERS PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1484, 11 December 1915, Page 2

FULLERS PICTURES.

DAMON AND PYTHIAS. Arrangements have been made whereby the screening of Damon and Pythias will take place at the Town Hall on Tuesday, Dec. 14th for one night only. In these days, when there is criticism as to the tendency of some film productions, it is only lair to specially commend pictures to which no exception 0f any kind can be taken, and to which it would be desirable that young, as well as old of both sexes should go. One of the most beautiful stories in the world is the story ot Damona nd Pythias, the universal Idyll of altruistic friendship and self-sacrifice. It is told in every tongue. It was only the other day that our own Education Department printed it in their “ School Journal.” On Tuesday night it will be p'roduced with all the lavish richness of a wealthy management, and the skill of a great picture producer. Some years ago we used to get in this country splendid re creations of classical and biblical subjects by two great French and Italian picture producing houses. We have not had such a one for a long time, and have often regretted it. We never expected to find that an American producer could rival ,he Latins in the reproduction of their own classics. Yet in elaboratness, faithfulness to minute detail of life, beauty and setting, ‘‘atmosphere ” and lavishness of personnel, we have nothing better than this picture play of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, of which the inspiring spirit is one Carl Laemmle. The Neptune’s daughter film, which the Shipman management has just given us, was by the same producers. For that they went to the West Indies. For this they recreated the Greece of 400 B.C. at “Universal Cit3 T ,” outside Los Angeles, a great centre created at a cost ot a million dollars solely for the production and setting of films plays. There you are shown thousands of people living the life of classic Greece, in the midst of Grecian homes and temples and palaces. You look down the vista of a long Grecian street and the winding hill road beyond, and see the armies of the conqueror marching in triumph, the streets filled with applauding throngs, the galleries with the beauties of the Grecian city. All these thousands are garbed in the beautiful and becoming costumes of ancient Greece and what is more, they manage to entirely lose their identities —a thing that seemed impossible when you were introduced at the outset to the star performers in their everyday garb. The booking is at Teviotdale’s, admission is and 6d, booking 6d extra.