The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-17
FAMOUS SCENES
 REPRODUCED IN
 MOTION PICTURES
The Durbar Shown by the Kinemacolor to Delighted Audiences at the Park Theatre Go and See Them

It is not very often that one hears
 Of historical events in the present day being portrayed in toto by motion pictures, but undoub tedly before very long that will be the compulsory method by which half the history of the world will be taught to the com ing generation, also every educa tional
 subject. Have you or your children
 seen the Kinemacolor pictures of the Dunbar?
 You will ask, firstly: What is Kline
 nacoIor? It is the latest scientific discovery of the age by Mr. Charles
 Urban and MT. Albert Smith, and by
 this means you are enabled to see
 everything known to nature in it's own
 color painted by her own hand.
 What does the word Durbar mean
 Durbar means Convention, and by Mary of England were proclaimed Emperor and Empress of India at Delhi, the capital of that country, a by all the Eastern barbarfc pomp and ceremony which in the past ages and history of India attended the procla- nation of a native Prince of the coun- try and comprising all the ancient rights and ceremonies used hundreds of years ago.
 The visit of the King and Queen was heralded to the people of India by the arrival of their Imperial Ma jesties at Bombay, commonly known as the Gateway to India. Here they were met by thousands of their loyal subjects who thronged the thorough fares to the Appol1o Bunder Or land ing stage of Bombay, at which point the King Emperor and his beautiful wife first put foot on Indian soil they being the first crown heads to go over to the country for this ceren ony in the history of the British Empire.
 The ceremonies comprised altogether two weeks and every minute of the time was fully occupied by their Inn peria.l Majesties attending the numer- ous social and. official functions plan by Sir J. F. Hewwitt who had in hand all arrangements for this overwhelrn- ing occasion.
 First of all a state garden party princes of India.
 They were entertained in Calcutta, Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Singapore, Nepal, Secunderabad and other can royal state by the high officials of the country that India, in consequence being decorated beyond all recogni- ton, was literally tranformed into 0 country of fairy dreams, palaces, flow CT gardens and perfume of oriental, flavor such as one reads Of in books
 In a few words that is the brief out line of the Dunbar very inadequately told
 lima gine1the enormfty of the whole thing. A display of 500.000 people on every occasion, thousands of horses, elepha nts, camels and other animals peculiar to India; $275, COG, 600 of jewels, 50, GOO troops in review by the King and every little detail of the two weeks ceremonies being shown at the Park Theatre for the next two days, with matinees at 2:15 and nights at 8:15. There is a fine lecture by MT. Cooper Willis who was himself in h. dia during the whole affair. The pro gramme includes: Preparation for the Durbar; gun firing by R. H. A and royal arrival preparations for el- epnant pageant; State garden party; Polo tournament; Point to Point races and rehearsal Calcutta Pageant; State entry into Delhi; Coronation Dunbar. Parts and 3; Kings Camps and rlrl- ing Chiefs; review of 50, 900 troops and departure of their Imperial MaJest3es.