ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 65, 7 September 1911, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

| tSACNDERS' PICTU'KES. The astonishing feature of Saunders' Pictures last night, was tin? picture story, "Hack to the Primitive." The spectator's one thought throughout is that the people in the pictures have deliberately risked life and limb and have faced wild, full-grown lions in their native lair ,foi the sa'ke of their art—and cinematography has become a very line art indeed. A man lives' in Africa and sends for his sister in 'England. She and her escort are seen aboard the ships. An American goes aboard at Suez. The ship is wrecked, and the picture shows a real wreck on the rocks, with the wn.ves breaking mi it. The girl, the Englishman and the American escape on a. raft, and there is 110 doubt that the place on which they land is African Boil. They build a laager to keep the wild beasts out. The devotion of these picture actors and the actress is understood -when six leopards are seen prowling about. The heroism of the picture operator impresses one if lie thinks about it. The picture story shows in wonderful fashion that the Englishman is 'killed by wild beasts. The African man sets out to lind his sister. The American man makes a bow and arrows. Tho girl is dressed in leopard skins. Then the thrill! Two huge lions sneak from out of the jungle with wicked grace, intent on prey; there is no doubt or "fake" about it. The man with the bow sends the girl away, and waits with his bow and 'arrows. The girl's brother j arrives at a. signal flag flown on the beach 'by the castaways. With him are elephants, native hunters, horses, spears, rifles and 'all the rest of it. They find the castaways' tracks, and hustle. The stirring picture tells again how the girl refuses to leave the American bowman. I Here come the lions through the trees—- | not seen through the bars of a cage, but | bounding )Pke magnificent cats straight for the man and woman. Xobody knows 1 how two people dared so much for a picture. At tho moment this terribly real picture tells you one of the lions must kill the castaways the girl's brother arrives, kneels, takes'aim, fires, and the lion drops. The natives rush forward and kill it: again it is obvious the fight and the death are real. And one is glad that the brother arrived, even though one knows that the party deliberately wandered into the lions' territory to ma'ke pictures. Seems to one the cinema man was a cool hand, too. Tho impressive funeral ceremonies of the late Cardinal Moran are finely shown. "Alice in Wonderland" is dainty, picturesque and pleasing. ''Society and the Man" is one of the best of its kind shown in many weeks, while the scenic records of China and Madeira have been drawn for their novelty, and: the glimpses they give of the people and scenes. There are many others, including four "screamers."