MACMAHON'S LIVING PICTURES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 117, 8 May 1908, Page 3

MACMAHON'S LIVING PICTURES

Referring to tlio splendidly successful living picture enterprise which the ! •Messrs. .Mac.Mahon present for the iirst < time in New Plymouth on -Monday and l Tuesday next, the Ounedin Star says:— "Amongst the many picture show s that ] have visited Duncdin witliin tlie past < three years, Mac.Uahon's, which was presented to a packed audience ill the > Alhambra Theatre last night, takes ■ pride of place in most respects, for these ■ reasons: All the picture.* are new; they are thrown on the screen by a machine which successfully overcomes the flicker so trying to the eve; and they are so admirably arranged that the entertainment never for n moment ceases to be in the highest degree interesting or diverting. The management have wisely made liberal use of a light and amusing class of subjects to supplement the programme. 'Her Fiivt Bike Ride' is the most amusing film that has convulsed a Duuedin audience. After a series of sensational mishaps, involving the mental and phvsieal overthrow of everybody and everything in the rider's track, a hot pursuit is taken up by some dozen policemen. Tlie climax is reacted when the cyclist drops from a high bridge into swift-running stream, and is followed by the police, a line exhibition of high diving being given. Of tlie same class is 'The Inexperienced Challeur.' I 'The Klectric Kelt.' and 'A Quiet Hotel' are of an equally humorous if different 1 type. 'Ua-ter Eggs' represents the last Iwoid ill colored cinematography, and 'liost in the Alps'—showing the St. liernard tracing two children lost in J '.ln snows of tiie Alps—is a sample of | the good things the MacMahom* have in the way of realistic pictures." The box plan is now open at "The Dresden."