AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 253, 1 December 1909, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

UIOWHTS PJCTUKEfcS. lu the Theatre Uoyal last night Mr. T. & Hewitt gave the first of his aeries of entertainments billed as Hewitts Pielures. There was only a small attendance, due doubtless to the surplusage of evening amusement during last week and this' week. Nevertheless, the whole programme was given, and a splendid programme it was. At the start there were one or two mechanical difficulties, due t.o the fact that it had not been possible, owing to the Theatre being engaged the previous evening for a theatrical rehearsal, to give the machine a trial run. But the kinematograph used was a fine one, the lighting brilliant, and the sclectiou of subjects excellent. It is doubtful if we have scon a belter-selected series of films. M. Uleriot'fj fatuous' monoplane Hight across the English Channel formed the theme of a very fine film. This picture lias only very recentyl arrived

ill the tlomiiiioii, and air. Hewitt is to bo congratulated oil his enterprise 111 securing it for his opening aiiglit. There was a splendid film entitled "Colombo and its environs," depicting the home life of the Cingalese people nod the majestic palms of Ceylon. A trip by steamboat along one of the great Continental rivers introduced a waterfall scene of inspiring grandeur. Dramatic films were > strongly represented, and, unlike some i of the condensed picture dramas, was just exciting enough, not blood-curdling and breath-catching. The finest picture 'of the night, mid one of the best ever producud in New Plymouth, was the dramatic film entitled "A street waif." it traced the after-life of a girl w|ho had been cast from a cafe into the street, where, wandering for hours, she fell into the snow. Rescued bv a theatrical manager, she was' trained for the stage, and promised great things, when a drunken brute who had in her previous life obtained an influence over her, sought her out, assaulted, and robbed her in her dressing-room at the theatre. J'lie last scenes suggested the usual combined happiness for the rescued and the -ine-tinie street waif. "Jlaggie and her lancees," "A meddlesome bov," am ' Tlio Moth-lninter," were among the iest of the comic slides, From Jast light's performance it is quite evident -hat Jlr, Hewitt is going to give us cinematography of the fir.st order, and hose who were present last night wll loubtles9 do the advertising for the next how, ' |