PRINCESS THEATRE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 70

PRINCESS THEATRE.

The very high degree of merit which is no v characteristic of the pictures presented at the Princess Theatre is more than maintained by the latest change of programme, which took place on August 26. There was a very large "house," and the tone and quality of the pictures, which were 6uch as to call forth repeated rounds of appreciation, will go far to en/sure big attendances for the currency of tho present programme. An example of the thorough up-to-date neee of cinematograph caterers is shown in the film " An Aerial Elopment," which is a really funny piece, and a highly creditable production of great ingenuity. Very fine and instructive fikns from an educational point of view are those showing respectively scenes of cattle-rais-nig and harvesting in British Columbia. Colombo and its environs, and tho cocoa industry of Trinidad. The £cenes comprising theee ar<» judiciously selected, and convey a realistic impression of the different industries and localities. A really beautiful dramatic study is pre.vented in the film entitled " A Street Waif," tile main character being a girl who, after being struck and insuked in a drinking bar. is thrust out into the wintry streets of Pans. She wanders a short distance, and the-n drops exhausted, and remains prostrated in the snow till a kindly motorist, seeing her plight, rescues her, and eventually launches her upon a. most promising stage career. Dramatic interest is lent to the plot by the efforts of companions of the girl in her old life to drag her back into the condition from which die has been rescued, but the failure of these designs forms a fitting final© to an item which thoroughly deserves the appellation "star," by reason of the high ability of the actors engaged m it. Other films comprised " Atcot Sunday " and "The Man and His Bees "-a very comic item,—" The Little Tyrant "— another meritorious humorous piece,— and " Teaching a Husband a Lesion," " Ruses,"' and " A Dash for Help," all the latter beine; films containing great potentialities in the way >f thorough enjoyment.