THE WIDE-WORLD PANTOSCOPE COMPANY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8141, 25 June 1906, Page 2

THE WIDE-WORLD PANTOSCOPE COMPANY.

It is rarely, if ever, that such a well equipped, high-class living picture company as the above has boen seen in JN ew Zealand. The company carries its own dynamo, electrical plant, and electricians. The anomatograph machine, a 1900 model Gau mo ut, is the latest and best on the market, and it is believed, the only one of the kind in the colony, while the sheet or screen on which the' Pictures were thrown in the Town Hall, Wellington, was the largest ever used in New Zealand. Commenoing with crowded and enthusiastic houses in Wellington, the company is gaining fresh success wherever it goes. At Palmerston North and Peilding during last week, hundreds were turned away nightly, and we are informed that already the advance booking at Wanganui exceeds anything previously known m the history ot its Opera House. The company, however, is not content to rest on its laurels. It sent one of its operators specially from Palmerston North to Wellington to attend Mr Seddon's funeral, and he sue ceedod in making a number of most .interesting pictures, which will be shown here. No such funeral has ever before taken place in the country and in all probabihty never will again. To those of us who wjre prevented from paying m person our last respects to a great man, thoso views of what will always be a memorable and histone event- cannot fail to have a dcop, though molancholy interest. Hardly less interesting is the last liytng picture ever taken of Mr Soddon. This was at the home coming of the victorious All-Blacks, at Auckland. Mr Scddon is seon in a prominent position and characteristic attitude