THE “INNOCENTS ABROAD.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 1, 27 October 1883, Page 2

THE “INNOCENTS ABROAD.

The above-named Pantascope, which has been for some time past exhibiting to crowded audiences at the Opera House, Auckland, will be opened in Parnell and Boylan’s Hall to-night. The New Zealand Herald says—“ The * Innocents Abroad ’ Pantascope was again exhibited at the Opera House last night. The fine series of pictures and the explanatory lecture by Mr Pickersgill was repeatedly cheered. At the close of the entertainment a distribution of valuable gifts took place. Mrs Rule, Albert street, won the handsome suite of furniture ; Mrs Somerville, Arch-hill, the silver tea and coffee service. About a hundred other gifts were bestowed among the audience,” All who have read Mark Twain’s accouht of the gigantic pleasure excursion to Europe, Asia, Africa and the Holy Land, undertaken by a party of excursionists, who commenced their pilgrimage by taking passage from New York on board the “ Quaker City,” can realise from the vivid descriptions which the versatile and humorous author, who to use his own phrase “ leaks information,” gives of the varied and strikingly beautiful scenes they, in the course of tneir pilgrimage, had the pleasure of contemplating, will readily realise the scope of—well—of the Pantascope. Mr Willis has, in depicting some of the most enchantingly beautiful scenes ever gazed upon by the oye of man, excelled himself. The pictures do not all portray still life, there is plenty of animation and activity depicted in some of the scenes. Mr Jos. Pickersgill is possessed of great elocutionary powers, and a certain quaintly humorous style of delivery, which elicited much applause. The public appreciation of the Pantascope has, on each occasion of its display,>een evinced by the number who patronised it. The Pantascope is entitled to be regarded as essentially an educational show of the most pleasing and effectual kind, and no one desirous of acquiring a knowledge for himself or his children of the most famous pUcea of the old world should omit to go and take his family with him.