Biograph Company.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7887, 1 August 1905, Page 2

Biograph Company.

0 There was another crowded house at the Theatre Royal on Monday evening, when the Salvation Arjny Biorama Company gave their concluding performaiice. A capital programme was received with enthusiastic -tokens of approval by t-lw aduience. The animated pictures were a tine assortment. Among the most striking were views pourtraying a coaching trip amongst picturesque scenery, the storm tossed sea, and American train robbery and the capture of the gang, an elopement and its sad finale, the stowaway at sea and others. The subjects covered a wide range, many being of a sad and pathetic nature enough to stir the most uiimtft-ioiial. A special feature was,-however, made of the comic element, ami in -this line a he tier lot of views have never 'hten witnessed locally. Several of this series i-airly ibroiigh-t down the house. During the evening there were a numher of vocal items, including the glees We Arc Going Down the Valley" and Somewhere" by the members of the company. An admirable selection of solo uumibers, superbly illustratcd with appropriate coloured" : views, was given-, including " Lit'tlo < Black Me" ' "He Laughs at i % NfPF Felt a Wound " bv, < ; ''Just as the I St'n Went- Down" by Bandsman Hu„t i nmf A , 0 " 06 «P the chorus) ; 1 t . £ slcc P,<n the Deep" and "The son ™ tC £ '!7 Ban<,6 raan Tliomp- i hawl o, '°hestra rendered I Ef i T lo ' At t|vc inclusion I of the entertainment Major Twvford < t-befr fpte«lid oW I ? s ' mollth P 00 '" 0 for hosnltahl? r , P* trona «« and the ' Yb nds Who had f tn NW com PMy. A return visit < ~ rir ™ s "'~-1