Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-09-19
WAS STANDING ROOM ONLY
AT The Colonial Theatre Last Night
To See Lyman H. Howe's
Moving Pictures.
CRITICAL AUDIENCE PLEASED
WITH THE SHOW.
The Pictures Will Be Shown Again
This Evening Everybody
Should Attend.

Long before O'Clock last night the
sign standing room only was dis
played by Manager Hollebaugh at the
Colonial Theatre, for every seat in the
auditorium and in both galleries had
been taken Lyman Howe's moving
pictures was the bill, and Mr.. Howe
accomplished two great feats. Besides
entertaining for over two hours, dur
ing which time he pleased, interested
and instructed over thousand people
and one of the proyerbially critical
audiences OF Annapolis, Mr.. Howe
demonstrated beyond a scintilla of
doubt that Annapolis does like and
can be entertained by some other class
OF show besides a musical comedy or
comic opera.
To have accomplished this is a great
feather in Mr.. Howe's cap, for scarce
ly at any performance other than one
with a beauty chorus is the Colonial
Theatre packed Mr.. Lyman
Howe's motion pictures are famous
and Annapolis knows it, She has
sampled them before, and sine appre-
ciates good things. The pictures are
clean cut, well defined, clearly out
lined and are of different class from
most motion pictures. There is just
enough of the ludicrous side of life
and the impossible situation thrown
in to balance the heavy and TO
give ones mind rest after being in
tensely interested and instructed by
scenes and sights in life's great school.
There are pictures to please all, and
the child is amused and interested as
well as the grandparent who takes
him to the show
4 After bidding the audience "good
4
for the ladies to remove their hats,
(not big bows at the back of their
neck the screen is given over to a SER
les of scenes that hold the wrapt at
tention of the audience. Mr. Howe
shows a pigeon farm in California,
where thousands of birds ale futtering
and feeding Nautical summer sports
and trip along the Columbia river
through the Rocky Mountains in win
ter are both very interesting. One
actually believes himself on the
train, climbing the mountains, going
through tunnels in the snow-clad
Rockies or crossing great tressel bridges
it is all so realistic. The drill by
boys in the English orphanage was
well produced. 1t shows the youths
in various attitudes and evolutions
which they do with military preci-
Slon.~ Inc pictures OF the maiden Vo-
calist who, when asked to sing, re-
fuses to stop even under protest OF her
auditors, calls forth much laughter,
as also does Browns Half Holiday
Perhaps the most intensely interest
ing of the series of Hewe's pictures
are those showing the workings of
Carnegie's steel works, where the
manufacture of steel is shown in all
its stages, from the firing of the great
furnaces to the shipping away of steel
bars that are shown to be almost as
malleable as gold, and are rolled out by
certain process into long, thin sheets.
This series of pictures is q great
object lesson to old and young. Views
of the capture of Port Arthur are worth
alone the price of admission. Mr.
Howe has the authentic views and
his photographer was the only success
full one of ten permitted by the gov
ernment to take pictures of this great
historic event. The Japanese soldiers
and Russian prisoners are clearly out
lined and the scenes attendant upon
taking that great fortress are intensely
interesting.
The Howe entertainment will be re-
peated tonight at the Colonial Thea
tire and no one should miss it.