AMERICA AT WORK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81831, 25 August 1906, Page 2

AMERICA AT WORK.

Edison's Popular Pictures and " America at Work"' will open a season in New Plymouth on Tuesday evening- at the Theatre Royal. The Wellington season has been a pronounced success, and the last performance given was in the presence of the largest bouse before which tho company lids yet appeared. The New Zealand tour of this picture organisation has been elaborately organised, and the most modern samples of animated photography have been secured fn m America. The programme to be presented will pom r prise pictures which have never before been seen in Christclnirch, including two sensational films. These pictures are called " Raffles the Amateur Cracksman," a vivid portrayal of the much-read book of that name, depicted on a screen in eightr ecu sensational scenes; and "the Daring Escape and Recapture if Three Convicts from the Great American Prison Sing Sing." Pictures of the "chase" class include " The Dream of,the Rarebit Fiend; or , Poor Archibald Sailing bis Bedsicad over the. City of New York." The pictures of American life are not a h'ng drawn-out picture, but a series of interesting and attractive films depicting- the industrial life of the great manufacturing- country. Another feature of the pictures is the absence of delay, two machines being run bv expert operators. The company is equipped with its own electric light plant and expert electricians, and the screen, measuring- 28ft across, is made of kineto-cloth.