L'Eventograph d'Herbert Wyndham (Music Hall, 14->14 février 1898)

L'Eventographe d'Herbert Wyndham, collaborateur de Charles W. Poole, présente des vues animées en février :

CANTERBURY
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C. W. POOLE'S MYRIORAMA.-Never before should we think has the Music Hall, Canterbury, been so crowded as it was on Monday evening on the occasion of the first representation of Mr. C. W. Poole's myriorama. Commencing from the High Holborn, London, the audience were taken through Calais, Paris, Rome, Constantinople, China, India, the Arctic regions, and a host of other places by means of superb really artistic merit, while the mechanical effects were of a marvellous character. The Turco-Greek war, the Japan and China war were all most realistically reproduced, even to the firing of the guns, and to make the exhibition quite up to date a very fine representation of the now celebrated charge of the Gordon Highlanders at Dargai was shown. Basides all this the exhibition is enlivened and made thoroughly diverting by Mr. Herbert Wyndham’s new eventographe, only another name for the now so well-known cinematographe. Nevertheless, this form of entertainment is sure to be appreciated, and on each evening the audience has been most enthusiastic over the representation of the Diamond Jubilee Procession. On the opening night, on the appearance of the Queen in her carriage, the audience seemed to lose all control of themselves, and the cheering was so lusty and continuous that one might have imagined he was present at the real procession itself. The turn out of a Fire Brigade in the United States and the rescue of horses from a burning stable also came in for a good share of the applause. A very clever trick cyclist gave some capital performances on cycles and wheels of all kinds, which were most heartily applauded. The evergreen ventriloquial entertainment was as laughable as ever, but was made additionally clever by a life-size figure of Ally Sloper. The entertainment concluded with a most of clever performance by Professor Bonnetty’s foxes, dogs, monkeys, jackals, geese, ducks, pigeons, cats, rats, mice, canaries, and a raven. We should think such a number of animals and birds has never before presented on the stage at one time, and this exhibition in itself is well worth seeing.

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Whistable Times and Herne Bay Herald, samedi 19 février 1898, p. 4.