We put the world before you by means of the Bioscope and Urban films (Nov 1903)

91 Topical Timbs,'' August 29th, 1903. You can be instructed now, as well as amused at the variety theatres. Some very wonderful tilins arc nightly being shown by the Bioscope, entitled " The Unseen World." There are bees galore all wonderfully busy, as bees should be ; you can seethe blood circulating in a frog's foot; chameleons are fed and you can watch the darting out of their curious tongues. There are also so ue weird things called water hydra. Anyone in want of a line attack of the jim-jams cannot do l>. tter than hurry up to the Alhambra, but if you feel a bit "jumpy " I should advise you to leave these latest exhibits of the Charles Urban Trading Company severely alone. There is also a screenful of rheescmites magnified to the size of t urtles. I'gh ! ami I saw them after I had been to Vesta Tilley's luncheon! " Court Circular," August 29th, 1903. Popular Science at the Alhambra. The yearning for instruction of a popular order which charactises the British race is extraordinary. By playing delicately on this peculiarity, astute speculators have disposed of hundreds of sets of curiously-antiquated encyclopaedias, and increased by thousands the circulations of unspeakably dull weekly papers of the cheaper kinds. Instruction blended with entertainment and administered in homoeopathic dos< s, will draw money front the major class of Englishman. Mr. Douglas Cox. the experienced general manager of the Alhambra, understands his public, and he is filling that hall nightly by an appeal to this national trait. We ha\e had remarkable pictures, beautiful pictures, 'and on the Continent unseemly pictures, through the medium of one or other of the many varieties of Binsco,ie machines, but it remained for Mr. Cox, to grasp the educational aspect of the invention, and give us a series of pictures which combine diversion with the digestive systems of the insect creation. The subjects, which are reflected upon a huge screen, are so highly magnified that cheese-mites anpear as large as sofacushions, mid as rapacious as crocodiles, and they are described in a concise and cheery manner that is quite to the taste of the spectators. I d >u't remember the nature of many of these microscopic masterpieces, but I quite appreciate the fascination, thei have for the popular audience. An illustration of the circulation of blood in the webbed foot of a frog, a study of the chameleon (I think it was) darting out a tongue as long as itself with the rapidity of lightning to secure his inset l fund, anil the Mow of the sap in a water-weed w ere among the usually hidden marvels exposed to (he public gaze. The cheese-mites in lite hey-day of their youthful beautj and the snakes that appeared as formidable as animated Atlantic cables were attractions equalled only by the pictorial revelation of the domestic habits of the busy bee, and I gather that later on, these novelties will he outrivalled by pictures of the bacillus typhosus, where the typhoid fever comes from. Hut more extraordinary than arc the publications of these secrets of nature is the absorbing interest with which they are examined by the audience. During this •'turn" the bars are deserted, the promenaders are all facing one way and every eye in the house is rivetted on the screen — it is a sight that would alone repay any student of national character for a \ isit to the Alhambra. "The Tatler," August 26th. September 2nd, 1903. Science in a Music-hall. I fi el sure that people want to be interested as well as made to 1, ugh, the w hole purpose of entertaining being a withdrawal from the worry of the day's work. Now the Alhambra has got one of the most fascinating turns I have seen in the shape of a series of bioseoped inicrophotographs showing all s rts ol things that we have seen under a microscope. For example, a picture of a man eating cheese is thrown on the screen and then a second picture of the cheese show ing the mites actually moving, You see a chameleon shooting out a tongue which is as long as its body in pursuit of food. There is a fight betwt en two toads and a tortoise figuring as referee. Most interesting of all, however, is a series of fifteen pictures telling the story of the bee; you see everything in motion. The house simply sits breathless as wonder follows wonder. One of our greatsst scientific authorities in a private letter to the Editor describes this exhibition as " epoch-making" and perfectly splendid Lack of space prevents including hundreds of further Press and Magazine Articles on the Wonderful Urban-Duncan micro-Bioscope Scries