Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-09-19
BIG AUDIENCE ENJOYS
HOWE'S EXHIBITION
Program at Colonial Comprised
All New Features.
BURIAL OF MAINE SHOWN,
And Scenes Of France, Airship and
Motor Boat Races and Others, All
Afforded Much Interest.

That there still popular demand
for the travel pictures and other
scenes exhibited by the Lyman H.
Howe Company. iu spite of the much
cheaper forms of entertainment by
the movies" combined with vaude-
vile, now offered the general public
throughout The country, was eviden-
ced by the large attendance at the
Colonial Theatre last night for
Howe's annual exhibition of motion
pictures and travel festival.
Practically every seat on the main
floor and in the balcony was filled and
it was a representative gathering of
city and Naval Academy folk. And
there were scenes to please the tastes
of all, from the comedies and travel
scenes of places abroad, to exhibi
tions of achievements of modern
science. Many "kiddies" was no.
ticed among the spectators. They
were brought along by their parents
principally to see the animals. of
which quite few were exhibited in
cluding che "attack by a lion" in
which a lone hunt ar who had camped
in fastness for a night slew the
beast just as it was about to pounce
upon his horse.
The scenes attending the last voy
age and burial IN mid-ocean of the old
battleship Maine, raised from the
harbor of Havana, was largely respon-
sible for the many naval people in
the audience. Incidentally, this was
probably the most attractive of all
the exhibitions. The scenes showed
the dismantled hull of the ill-fated
war vessel. the sinking of which was
responsible for Americas s unpleasant
ness with Spain, from the time she
was raised to the surface, the re-
movaf of the bodies of heroes buried
in the null to and from the municipal
hall in Havana, and their final trans
fer to the cruiser North Carolina.
which was the funeral" ship, the
towing of the hull out to sea and its
final plunge into the depths Of the
ocean.
The picture of Admiral Sigsbee,
who commanded the ill-fated ship.
Father Chadwick, the Chaplain, and
many naval officers well known here,
who participated in the burial cere-
monies, were shown in the pictures.
Interesting was the assembling of a
group of pictures of many of the lead
ing people, rulers of the world, men
and women, of political, social and
financial standing. And as the pie
ture of Woodrow Wilson, the Demo-
cratic Presidential candidate, was
thrown on the screen there was an
outburst of applause.
Of great attraction also were thu
scenes of Paris, the "City Beauti-
full" and the picturesque rivers of
France 1.-The Pare Monceau, with
its beautiful and costly water foun-
tains, squirting like geysers, as well
as many other beautiful spots were
shown. The Chameleon, little
quadruped, greatly resembling liz
ard, and which changes to multitude
of colors, as well as having remark
able eye, and tongue, furnished very
interesting exhibit The movement
of the eyes were shown in detail.
HydropIane and motorboat racing
at Monte Carlo, caught the favor of
many of the spectators This picture
showed race between a hydroplane
and fast motor boats, the race wind
ing up by the air craft passing the
motor boat Ursula, the latter going at
the rate of 45 miles an hour There
were scenes of cities in Germany
taken from a dirigible balloon, pic
lures showing the growth of flowers,
and a number of others. The pie
lures of an instructive nature were
interspersed with comic scenes now
and then. that combined to make up
a program that was highly appre-
ciated. Sounds made the sciences
more realistic.