ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 15, 12 July 1911, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

ROYAL PICTURES. CORONATION FILMS. j A large and appreciative audience attended the Theatre Royal last evening, I when Saturday's fine programme was repeated for the last time. To-night /" an exceptionally interesting selection of] * pictures will y be presented, which includes a brilliantly colored scenic film entitled "Through the Tyrol," depicting i some most beautiful waterfalls, castle of Runkelstein (13th century), and curious pyramids of earth hollowed oux by the water. Another splendid scenic picture is "The Banks of the Danube" from Passau to Vienna. The confluence •f tihe Danube and the river Inn, the lochenstein Rock, which fixes the limits of the German and Austrian frontier, Luiz, Gottesthal, ruins of the Abbey burnt in 1809, Marbach, and on the heights, the shrine of Maria Taferl, Schoenbiclil Castle of the Convent of the Servites, the castle of Chevalier Pillagers, Spitz, the fortress of Durusteiii, in winch Leopold VI. had Richard Ceour de Lion imprisoned, Stein and Vienna. Pathe's Australian Gazette includes Melbourne on C'oronaion Day, scenes in the streets and the illuminations, a hurricane at Brighton, their Excellencies at the Coronation church service, and the arrival of the Japanese training ship "Taisci" Maru at Melbourne. and other interesting events. Sarajevo, capital of liosina, should also prove of great interest. This picture includes scenes of the Tsle of Death, the Isle of Boecklin, and a general view of the Island of Corfu (Greece). The industrial films are "Ostrich Breeding in Egypt" and "A Tin .Mine and Smelting works at Malacca." This is a colored film, and depicts the process of tin from the time it leaves the mine till it reaches the final stages, including a remarkably fine *>ccne of the furnaces. The dramas to he presented are "The Veil of Happi: ness," "A White Fawn's Devotion," and "Abraham Lincoln's Clemency," wliilt the comic clement will be found in I "Electric Boots," "Love and Music," "Married through a Pin," and "WifTles and his two sons." This selection will only be {screened for one night. On Thursday and Friday no pictures will be' shown, but on Saturday another com--1 plete change of programme will be pre- • sented at the matinee. SAUNDERS' PICTURES. Sounders' Pictures were shown last night in the Whileley Hall to an appreciative audience. To-night there will be a change of programme, comprising thirteen items of scenic, comic, dramatic, and industrial interest. The star item is entitled "Francesch Di • Rimmini," a tragedy of old Italy, which is described aa on- of the most interesting films . ever brought to the Dominion. In the . natural history section, snakes and . tfieir habits will be screened. In scenics, i views of Lake Lugano, the Gorges of t the Riramil and Marvellous Melbourne j will he given. There will be a host of i comics and dramas. Among the latter [ are "The Outlaw and the Child," and . in comics "Charlie's Anut," "Tweedledum aid the Stolen Necklace," "Spring-heeled j .Tack." and "Bill as Toreador." The j bill-of-fare is quite up to the usual high I standard.