The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-23
SIX new OFFERINGS
AT MOVIE THEATRES
Managers Making Every Effort
to Cater to Public's Hunger
for Film shows.
LION HUNT Is REALISTIC
Rainey's African Views and
Griffith's clone, Sweet
Home" Are Attractive.

The public appetite FOR moving pictures
must be large, to judge from the numbers
In which they are offered at the city
theatres Yesterday no fewer than six
different new sets were shown. The size
Of the gatherings varied from the crowd
at the Casino, where the Rainey pictures
wers on view. to the usual handful that
seems to measure the moving picture su-
dience nowadays
The pictures shown were the African
views made by Paul J. Ralney. the ing
lish picture play made from Mrs. Frances
Hodgson Burnetts Little Lord Fauntle-
roy" at the Lyric Theatre. 'Home. sweet
Home" at the Court; "The Jungle" a
play made from Upton sinclairs novel Of
undertaking memory: "The Greyhound"
Armstrong aud Miners melodrama OF
crook life at the Strand, and some new
views at the Vitagraph Theatre
Mr.. Rainey has brought back new
set OF pictures from British East Africa
and here one sees the results OF the nov
ing picture In their best estate. These
pictures do all but put the life OF the
African forest and veldt. jungle and
thicket before the eyes OF the public. One
Is invited not TO witness some banal at
tempt at play kept within the limits OF
the screen and mined In muteness but
the great life OF wild world which
might be unknown but for this invention
which makes its wonders visible every
where in the civilized world
Lion Hunt Causes Thrills.
The special thrill OF these pictures
comes with the lion hunt. which brings
the series to o close. The first view In
this set shows the body OF the buck killed
by the lion AN Ii is devoured by the
eagles. the marabou storks and the rest
OF the carnivorous birds OF British East
Africa Then there comes the view OF the
hounds and the three hunters who pick up
the scent and start the chase over the
hills. Hunters and dogs course through
luxuriant and smiling landscape until the
lion IL sighted.
The batting OF the beast by the dogs il
wildly shown and his sudden efforts to
fnd safety in the brush or In a ravne
ending with the rush at the camera which
brings ON his death by a rife shot, were
vivid aud unique episodes which could
not have been enjoyed through any other
picture.
Many interesting scenes OF life in the
African forests, animals of all sorts, in
GLIDING tribe OF buffalo a. skittish "a
young colts. and the representation OF n
cheetah hunt are included in the films.
which make the most delightful series Of
pictures shown here since the first taken
BY Mr.. Rainey were shown These are as
well worth seeing.
The Lyric Theatre showed yesterday as
part Of the benefit for the Newsboys'
Home Club which was the purpose OF the
display OF the Rainey pictures ~ the
Casino as well. some English views and
Little Lord Fauntleroy." introduced by
the James McEnnery Syndicate. These
pictures afford fair idea az Mrs Bur
netts romance for adolescents. They
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character. which was altogether differ
ent from that which our own pictures
usually offer. These views really looked
like carefully finished photographs.
Then the actors made no such EFFORT
to play up TO what the public is sup
posed 10 want as our own picture actors
do. There Is little or no eXaggeration I'm
gesture and the actors do not resort 10
the devices Of makeup 30 common among
the Americans that pose before the cam
era for the picture plays The result OF
this restraint of manner. as well as the
avoidance OF anything like artificial
heightening OF the facial traits. makes
the pictures different from our own. There
10 certainly gain in naturalness. even
IL at the cost of a certain emphasis
Some Other Attractions.
'Home, Sweet Home" at the Cor
Theatre, has taken the place OF the eu-
tion on the theme OF John Howard Payne's
popular song liz the work OF ID. w. Grlf.
nth. the mere mention of whose al
mighty name makes every moving pic
ture impresario tingle with the desire Il
possess his services Mr.. GrifYith. II must
he confessed, seems to have been able
TO md inspiration in this song for a
great many incidents that never woult
have occurred to less imaginative direc
tors in connection with its author.
THE Greyhound" as picture play a
the Strand Theatre has the advantage
OF taking place on a real boat instead
OF q painted one and the plotting crooks
have a much more realistic background
Then Eliza r. Otis acted her origina
role OF the plotting baroness. and she Il
realistic enough as a crook TO make any
play seem actual the Jungle" at
Weber's Theatre. follows the story Of
Upton Sinclair's novel and also derive,
tho sociological Importance necessary tS
every moving picture play by using the