FULLER'S PICTURES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 18 August 1909, Page 69

FULLER'S PICTURES.

'• The Man in the lion Afa=k " is the title of the M:ar piefme in the new pu<grammo at the Pi incoss Tlipa; ro. It i? a tale of the reign of Lcuis XIV, of Fianf*, and his twin bi other, to whom l>o brno a remarkable likei |O<: -. Ons t^ij tiio kin'jj is captured and carried cfi, aii'l hh> brother takes hw place. Xo one f.uspocr& (Ka change, except the king's kweetheaii. w lio dons th-0 cost mrc of a trooper, concoa's her features behind a nia-k, and, with three soldiers, goes in pursuit of the kidnappers. The real king is brought back to the palace, and hie brother is saized and taken away, and, to ensure the safety of France, his face is hidden in an iron

T mask, which is locked on ho head. The pictures are beautifully coloured, and are, in other respects, a triumph of the photographer's art. The other pictures are, as usual, widely varied, and so interesting in character as to. "make it very difficult to discriminate between them. Perhaps the most amusing of the series is one called " The New Stenographer," wherein is pictured the awful confusion and disastrous accidents that befel the husband of a jealous wife, who was at the same time the employer of " a perfect peach " of a typist. " A Mimic Battle on Whale Isla-nd " shows a desperate fight between two bodies of sailors, who haul guns about, bravely rush up to the very muzzles of rapidly working Maxims, build shelters of sand bags, and, in extravagant pantomime, die in various places and attitudes. " The Royal Ascot" is an excellent picture, of which (to a Briton at the Antipodes) the most pleasing feature is the fact that it devotes more attention to the crowd than the raoes. In one place is plainly descried the genial presence of his Majesty King Edward VII. " How the Bulldog Paid His Rent," " Only a Tramp," and " The Banknote " are series of a more or less melodramatic nature, and, putting the limelight for a moment on little erlimpses of real life, are welcome in any programme of biograph pictures. " The Historic Medway " comprises scenes observed from "the deck of a river steamer, a-nd unfolds to the view many delightful glimpses of rural England. "Turning the Tables," "A French Tannery," and "Her First Love" are other pictures included in a programme which in no sense falls below the standard that has been set by" Mr Hamer in the' past, and (which, it is safe to cay, will be shown !to large audiences during every evening 1 of this week.