AMUSEMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 231, 4 February 1911, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

THE LION AND THE MOUSE. At Collier's this morning at 8.30 the plans will be opened for the initial production in New Plymouth, which takes place on Wednesday night next, of Chas. Klein's powerful dramatic sensation, "The Lion and the Mouse." A staff of ushers will bo in attendance from 8 o'clock to fc..:. .1. queue. Lovers of drama and tl: ..:■'. .joers generally have probably hj; ~■;■< . i the enthusiasm created amongst play-goers in Sydney on the occasion of the first production in Australia by 'Katherine and J. C. Williamson's dramatic company of "The Lion and the Mouse." The success achieved on her subsequent triumphs in Christchurch and Wellington will account for the interest which has been centred in Miss Grey's initial appearance in New Plymouth. The whole of the effects for the production will arrive here On Tuesday in charge of •a large staff of mechanics and electriI cians.

BUFFALO BILL AND WILD WEST I PICTURES. i That the MacMahon Bros, have something out of the common to present on I Monday night at the Theatre Royal the following, from a contemporary, amply proves: "There have occasionally been as many people in His Majesty's Theatre as there were last night, but there have certainly never been more, for the very good reason that the theatre could not hold them. Long before the hour for the show to commence hundreds had to be refused admission, and when the lights were turned down it was an eager and somewhat noisily demonstrative audience which awaited the showing of the first picture. As to the programme, it can be fairly called a Wild West Show. The first half consists of three or four very long, well-acted, well-photographed, and well-projected story films, which the moving picture people in America have been preparing so well of late. All the pictures are American, ami the subjects all tell of the exploits of trie open-air men of the woods and the prairies, who wear picturesque clothes, carry revolvers i two feet long or thereabouts, and ride good horses at a furious pace." On Tuesday "Uncle Tom's Cabin" will be screened for the first time here.