AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10046, 21 July 1910, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

CARRENO. Herr Benno Schere.k. is directing the world tour of Madame Teresa Carreno, the pianiste. At present the famous musician is touring New Zealand, and will open in the Masterton Town Hall on Friday, -July 29th. Afterwards she will re-visit. Australia, and, on her way back to Europe in October, South Africa may ba favoured. An effusive American critic, searching for a phrase, once called Carreno "the feminine Paderewski." "No," said Moritz Rosenthal, the well-known pianist, who was there at the time, "she is the masculine Paderewski." Those whoremembpr the latter pianist's delicate, somewhat sentimental reading, will appreciate the point of the remark. Madame Carreno is a woman of dplightful disposition; as a mother, she is affectionate, mindful of the welfare of her children. She is, also, so it is said, an advocate of w .'men's rights. In regard to b£r playing, it is of the most impassioned nature. Her enthusiastic temperament sweeps before it. In the power of her performance she has been compared to Sophie Menter, and it has been said that these two pianists are the only ones who, in spite of the restrictions laid by nature upon their sex, have been able to overcome the most tremendous difficulties of the pianofore technique.

GEORGE MARLOW'S DRAMATIC COMPANY. "AS MIDNIGHT CHIMES." George Marlow's Dramatic Company will appear in the Town Hall Masterton on Monday next, in the drama s 'Aa Midnight Chimes." This production lends itseJf'tn magnificent mounting, there being no fewer than 16 beautiful stage tableaux, including a realistic railway scene and a big Thames River scene. The Otago Daily Times says:—"As Midnigtit Chimes" is in many reepects a wonderful creation and has evidently been written by someone whose genius lies strongly in the direction of piling up sensation upon sensation. Besides minor villainies—that is minor by compariFon* but amply sufficient to operate powerfully upon the impressionable, and leave recollections not easily effaced—there is I an attempted suicide, and a moving train, and these should satisfy the most ardent admirer of melodrama, and there ai"i rot a few in every community at the present day. 'As Midnight Chimes,' " continued the critic, "is full of sentiment and emotion, of noble impulses and heroic deeds, and virue in is highest form, snd vice of the most varied kind jostle one another in kaleidoscopic confusion. There is a vigorous dramatic action throughout, which grips and holds the audience, while the pucceesion of striking dramatic tableaux leave behind an impression of beauty. The box plan is at Miss Rive's where day sale tickets are procurable.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTUERS. I The new peries of pictures to oe presented at the Foresters' Hall this evening bids fair to eclipse any previous productions. The dramatic portion is of a very hieh crdtr and includes several subjects that will be produced for the first time in the Dominion. From the manufacturer's primed descripti n "The Marshall of Gila Creek," should prove something out of the ordinary. "In old California," is descriptive of the old mining days when life was held very cheap. "The Victims of Bridge" how a young gambler was involved in a aigantic swindle, and is then marie to suffer the punishment. , Several first-class comic subjects will ' also be produced.