ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 110, 30 October 1911, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

SAUNDERS' PICTURES. "FOE TO RICHELIEU." The patrons who attended Whiteley Hair oil Saturday night were treated lb a programme of more than ordinary excellence, and the culminating point Was reached when Pathe's magnificent colored historical masterpiece, "Foe to Richelieu," was thrown upon the screen. :To ; lhe',pcrs(m. who. is not a regular at'ttndiint of the up-to-date picture show no idea can be given of the general effect '-and strikingly beautiful costuming, -mountings and' unique stage- effects, .[Which are called into requisition to produce this the most interesting and magnificent of all historical productions. •The well-known firm of Pathe Freres 1 have more than excelled themselves in : thisy Saturday night's audience could -well imagine themselves in the Court of France during the reign of Louis XIII., amid all the pomp and splendor of the ' seventeenth century, thinks to Messrs. I'athe's splendid production and the equally faultless projection of the Biograph Pictures. The great [personality around whom the story twines is undoubtedly one of the most powerful : characters of the seventeenth century I History of die world there have risen up ! :iicn who have dominated their ages with a power almost supernatural. They siamY high aloft over the common multitude, not by reason of their wealth, ■or their state, or their opportunity, but M' sheer force of that mysterious eleI incnt m human nature which we' call "personality," and which has been responsible in a greater or less degree for 'all the'triumphs and all the failures of the men of every time. Of such a type was : Richelieu. Prince of the Church and T.ord of the State. More powerful even than the King, he may well be said to have been the most central figure of his time. The present film by Messrs. Pathe is doubly excellent, both for its perfection of acting and mounting and on account of the reallv vivid picture it presents of this great man and the age he Jived in.