AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9562, 7 August 1909, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

"ALL-STAR" COMPAINY. j The "All-Star" Vaudeville Company will give an entertainment in the Town Hall this evening. The company is said to be one ol the largest and best that has visited this town. A contemporary says:— Mr George Sortis is a comedian of the i first water, is a clever coon imper- i sonator, and holds the world's cham- i pion baton manipulator. He i Hover allows the fun .to stop, and the. : laugiier which greets him roarS ; along until he has finished his turn. ' Miss Thelma Wood is a charming bal- - ladist. Messrs Shaw and Armour aie ! a marvellous pair of • patter and burlesque boxers. Miss Pearl Gordon is i a dainty serio and dancer, who immediately becomes a favourite, and is called again and again. Mr Walter Jamerson is a very fine character - actor and vocalist. TAYLOI-CARRINGTON PICTURES. The following splendid collection of star cinematogram3 has been selected by the Taylor-Carrington managements for their final presentment of animated pictures on Mon- • day next, August 9'h --Bridge of Sighs, founded on Hood's beautiful poem; Land of the Midnight Sun, scenic; Dancing Throughout the World, educational: -Sailor Boy's Sister, dramatic; Faust up-to-date, quick comic; Thames In Winter, scenic; Saved By His Daughter, dramatic; Beauties of Versailles, spectacular; Tit-for-Tat, comic; Sunny, Italy, scenic; Grandma's Cat, comic; Gipsy Girl' Love, dramatic; Larksy comic. This will be most positivelthe final presentment of the Taylor ' Carrington humanised pictures forMr Taylor and Miss Carrington, supported by a large and efficient dra matic company commence a dramatic season in Auckland on the 17th inst. The Wanganui "Herald," in commenting upon the final presentment of the Taylor-Carrington pictures there soys:—"Mr Taylor and Miss Carrington have catered very liber- ] ally for their audiences, and have been most careful as to the class of film thev project. They have never presented any of the Burglar Bill or Deadwood Dick style of film, and their comic pictures have never been in the slightest degree vulgar or suggestive; consequently family people have patronised the TaylorCarrington pictures most liberally, and have always found them refined, pleasing, and, above all, educational."