WEST'S PICTURES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9528, 28 June 1909, Page 5

WEST'S PICTURES.

A SUCCESSFUL ENTERTAINMENT. There was a large attendance at the Town Hall on Saturday night, on the occasion of the return visit to the town of the well-known picture entertainment known as West's •pictures,' which have been showing with success throughout New Zealand. The feature of the programme was the refreshing variety of subjects, pictures of famous scenery and travel, and various parts of the world, and dramatic studies and comic films, being shown with a view to giving the audience an amusing, and at the same time instructive, entertainment. The clearness with which the minutest details stand, out in the picture gi >es added interest particularly to the scenic and humorous films. The effectiveness of some remarkably interesting pictures, how-e.-'er, where detail is particualrly desired to properly appreciate the studies, was marred by a tendency, which is unfortunately becoming a common one in picture entertainments, to "rush" the films through too quickly. The titles of some of the scenes were also "whisked" on and off the screen with alarming rapidity, giving the audience no time'to properly read the headings of the various sections in each film. Undoubtedly the best filnr shown was that consisting of a most remarkable series of "art studies," entitled "The Evolution of the Serpentine,"' a magnificent picture radiant in a wealth of ever-changing colours of indescribable beauty. The

"Baby's Chum" waaa most delightful study, and "The Fashionable Waltz" is made up of humorous parts, the production of which kept th'e audience in a simmer of amusement the whole time. The "Redman and the Child," is a clever di;amstic study, the closing scene of the boat race being of a particularly exciting character. Other pictures shown were "The A«iimal Hospital." "The Tzar of Bulgaria," "Views of Zambesi and Victoria Falls," and "The Silent Hotel." TO-NIGHT. The programme for this evening will be entirely new, and will include a wonderful film showing the production of "The Scotsman," one of the largest newspapers in the British Isles, "Monte Cristo," and "A Walk through the London Zoo."