Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-29
KinemacOlOr Photography Is
Again the Attraction at the
Shnbert Theatre.
BALKAN WAR AND THE
DURBAR SPLENDORS SHOWN
Inauguration of the President
and the Panama Canal
Pictures.

Variety is the spice of life," said
the competent lecturer" as he APP
peared last evening at the Shubert
Theatre. when the curtain rose. to
introduce the series of pictures chosen
for the second week of the presenta-
tion of photographs in kinemacolor
The audience was expeetant and the
school children and their teacher
guardians were at attention. There
was an air, too, of alertness about the
lecturer 1t was as IL he had awak-
ened from the lethargy of the week
before. Perhaps the suggestions of
the Evening Star of tho possibilities
of his task had aroused his sluggish
intelligence: or, perhaps, a spark
from the eye of Colonel Goethals,
magnetic, penetrating, had pierced
his ponderous mentality. At all
events, his quotation, trlte though 1t
was, promised something. The prom
Use was not in vain. There were
beautiful pictures, scenes that should
arouse the enthusiasm of the veriest
philistine; scenes that quickly blotted
out the figure of the lecturer, that
made one forget the incident of a
wretched piano and a thrice wretehed
pianist. Among these was an anil
mated map, so-called, of the politics
of the Balkans for more than five
hundred years. This was quite be-
yond the power of the lecturer, but
he did his best and when he spoke
of the miniature but brave, simple
warrior nation" Montenegro, there
did, indeed, seem to arise in him
a sentiment of admiration. The
thought of it's fighting, struggling,
starving handful, smallest of the al
lies, offering up their lives for a
prize, which. won. is about to be
taken from them by the powers, is
enough to stir the blood and mosten
the eye; and the scenes thrown upon
the screen, Bulgarians, Greeks, Alba :
| mans, Montenegrins, all this brought
home to the mind and to the heart
! the stern fact that Montenegro.
which has sacrificed one-third of her
total male population. which has
stormed and captured at the point of
the sword an embarrassing number
of powerful fortresses, is now about
| to be abandoned to the Maehiavellian
| policy, the tortuous diplomacy of cal
culating England, loudly proclaimed
as her friend But, of course. of this
tragic incident in the political history
of the Balkans the lecturer said moth
ing. But pictures sometimes far eX-
coed in power of suggestion any
words, save those of genius.
The other scenes shown included
those of the Indian Durbar, which
were magnificent; representation of
those showing the Panama canal in
the making and the Inauguration of
President Wilson. Here, again, the
competent lecturer" missed the very
point that might have given him APP
plause, 50 sadly missed throughout
the evening, In the review before
the court of honor, after one had ad-
mired the superb alignment of the
cadets of the United States Military
Academy, there appeared the noble
Essex troop. Now he will recall the
fact that he is in Newark was the
thought that was born. But he did
not, and, alas! neither did the New
ark audience. The troopers faded
from the scene and not cheer arose