The Cinematograph Exhibition.
 After a lengthy tour in the South of India and Hyderabad with his cinematograph, Mr. Stevenson has returned to Madras for a few days, before setting out on an extended tour in Northern India. He gave two exhibitions with this wonderful instrument at the Victoria Hall on Monday, one in the evening and one at night. Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Crowden, who are now in partnership, have procured, at great expense, a large number of pictures which had not yet been exhibited in Madras, and among them, and most important and interesting of all, one of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Procession taken from an excellent position in St. James's Street. Yesterday's entertainments were largely attended, and their novelty and excellence were evidently appreciated as they deserved to be. Something remains to be done to make the exhibition altogether perfect, but Mr. Stevenson has succeeded in greatly reducing the vibration and increasing the illumination, with excellent results. The first programme was in shortened form, and was given at 6-40 P.M., and the second and full programme at the orthodox hour, 9-30 P. M. A large number of children attended the earlier performance in addition to a very fair number of adults, the convenience of the hour to those who do not care for going out after dinner being favourably commented on. The programme included several amusing and interesting scenes from real life, among them being a carpenter's shop, a game of leap frog, a boxing match, a street scene in Parts, and a railway station with the arrival of a train. Then came the grand triumph of the show—the Jubilee Procession, to which we shall refer in detail later on. The evening entertainment attracted a very much larger house than usually falls to the lot of after dinner entertainments in Madras. We have had the opportunity of seeing the cinematograph in Madras before, when a few living pictures were exhibited together with ordinary magic lantern slides ;but yesterday the cinematograph provided the sole entertainment. Several of the pictures exhibited last night have been seen before by everyone who has witnessed the wonders of the cinematograph, such as a street in London with hansom cabs bowling past, the growlers and 'busses, and many other sights peculiar to the metropolis; a gallant rescue; workmen leaving Portsmouth Dockyard; the arrival of the P. and O. express at Brindisi Station, and many other pictures. After an interval of 10 minutes, photographs were exhibited, including a Can Can dance at the Moulin Rouge, Paris, and Miss Loie Fuller's Serpentine Dance, with lime light effects, which latter was very fine. The feature of the evening was the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Procession. These pictures, several thousand in number, were taken at one of the best points on the route. The pictures are sharp and clear and a triumph in photography and will do more towards placing on record one of the most important historical events of Her Majesty's record reign than any amount of dry history. The excitement of the crowd is very noticeable when Her Majesty's carriage is passing; hats are waved frantically, handkerchiefs flutter in the breeze and the mighty roar of the enthusiastic crowd, the like of which was unprecedented, can well be imagined. The entertainment was really excellent. We should mention that during the exhibition of the numerous pictures appropriate music was played behind the scenes.

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Madras Weekly Mail, Madras, jeudi 2 septembre 1897, p. 212.