Entertainments.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7886, 31 July 1905, Page 2

Entertainments.

BIORAMA COMPANY. The Salvation Army Biorama Company arrived in New Plymouth: on Saturday morning with a mural bla'c of trumpets, the splendid band which is a feature ot the combination enlivening the town during the day by 1 parading the principal streets atut playing selections. An open-air display oi biorama pictures was given in Devon Street during the evening, and attracted a large and appreciative concourse of spectators. Marslaml H'iW was the popular rendemouij on Sunday afternoon, when the hand gave a pleasing programme of se lections and vocal items. Thc Theatre Royal was packed to

overflowing on Sunday evening after ■ Church hours, when a programme befitting the Sabbath was submitted. ! The gathering was one oi the largest ever recorded at the Theatre. Alter; an opening solo number by a member of the company, with chorus, the well-known hymn, "Shall Wc Gather at thc River" was thrown on tho screen in a scries ol artistic slides, ami the theatre rang with the volume of sound when the audience was invited to sing. The animated pictures j were excellent of their kind. The lirst series of "The Bridge of Sighs" pourtrayed a striking moral lesson. At thc unfolding m a splendid set of slides of the story, "Buy Your Owrf Cherries," the audience could scarcely forbear hearty applause. The audienoc were then initiated into the wonders of Hie Colisseum at Rome/ and figuratively conveyed through the resurrected city of Pompeii, a glimpse of smoking Vesuvius in the distance /searing testimony to . tho fate of the doomed city. The Biblical story ot the Good Samaritan was excellently pourtrayed in moving pictures. Bandsman Stevens gave a sympathetic interpretation of the fine solo, "Dream of Paradise," which was effectively set ofl with • a number of appropriate coloured slides. Thc still pictures of scenes in» the "Life of Christ" were artistic for colour, hut inadequate to the theme. The series which followed, however; were an artistic triumph in the beauty of their conception and the loveliness of colour effects. These included representations ot David and Goliath, the flight from Kgypt, the Pro digal Son, the Crucifixion, and other sacred symbolical scenes. The singing of "Where is My Wandering Boy To-Nightaccompanied the picture of' the Prodigal Son, ami the refrain was taken up by a large section of the assemblage. A brief address of exhortation ami a hymn were thc concluding items. During the evening appropriate and inspiring music. was rendered by the orchestra. This evening a "bumper" house expected, when the Biorama Company Aviil give lheir concluding per- : formancc. A varied and interesting display of kinematogi-aph pictures will foe given, dealing with a wide range ol subjects. Thc programme will be entirely new, the pictures never having been exhibited in this town previously.