ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 303, 17 May 1911, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

BIOGRAPH PICTURES. Last night's change of programme attracted a good crowd to the Theatre Royal, despite the cold change occasioned by the mountain breeze, which, uninvited, penetrates every part of the building. A film worth mentioning "Wild Birds in their haunts," is a beautfully colored nature study by Pathes. The nurseries of all the wild feathered creatures that most of us are familiar with by name or sight are shown us in this r film. The opening picture is a noisy colony of wild ducks. Pochards, mallards and tufted ducks are exchanging notes, stoppng only now and then to dive their heads into the cool water. the next instant we are swept away to a rockbound coast, the home of the Fulmar petrel. Back again we come to freshwater scenes. Two wild swans, whose huge nest has been compared to a cradle and raft in one, make a picture that is exquisite in its clear cameo-like beauty. Pheasants, hedge-sparrows, linnets, and young blackbirds follow. We again loiter on the river bank, and this time it is the nest of the pied wagtail that we see tucked away under a bush on a level with the ground. The dramas are a fine selection, the secnies exquisite in their beauty, and the comics highly humorous. To-night is the last night of this collection.