AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10055, 1 August 1910, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

TOWN HALL PICTURES,

The new programme presented at I the Masterton Town Hall on Saturday eveping Inst attracted a large and enthusiastic audience. The series is one of the most refined and instructive that the Town Hall proprietary has shown. It includes a splendid set of pictures describing life in beautiful Japan, a host of coloured views of the famous Antwerp Zoo, a unique presentation of coloured tableaux, three highly diversifying and romantic dramas, and half a dozen laughter raising comedies. As the "Living New Zealand" season commences tomorrow, the present unique programme will be shown for a last time tu-night. Photographic nominations are now being received ft.r the children's beauty competition, for which three'snbstantial prizes are offered. The management desire it known that the photographs will be thrown upon the screen fur twelve nights, and that the children receiving the highest aggregate votes from the audiences will be awarded the prizes

"LIVING NEW ZEALAND."

The announcement that the Masterton public ia to be afforded an opportunity of witnessing the "Living New Zealand" pictures, which have been specially taken by the Tourist Department for kinematugraph exhibitions in the Old Country, has be«;n received with intense satisfaction. That one of these pictures should describe life on a Wairarapa ) sheep and catile station is singular-i ly appropriate, whilst th~! opportun-1 ity of watching the mail train ascending the tortuous Rimutaka Incline may never again be presented. A large section of the community has not been privileged to visit the thermal regions of Kotcrua and to view the boiling pools, the playful geysers, the inviporati g baths, and the magnificent falls and rapids. These will have the opportunity of seeing a lifelike reproduction of the uncanny wonderland at the Town Hall on Tuesday afternoon and evening, Wednesday affernoon and evening, Friday evening, and Saturday afternoon and evening. A peep at Maori life, including the sports and pastimes of the Natives, will also be given. Added to these momentous films will be a splendid moving pieturle describirg Lord Kitchener inspecting the Cadets and Bov Scouts at Dumdhi " K ot K" will also be shown reviewing the military in Sydney on the occasion of his recent visit. A toned and tinted film, descriptive of our rock bound coast, will be specially interesting, as will I also the visit of King George V. and Queen Mf»ry to New Zealand in 1901, the Dominion Day celebrations, and King George proclaimed in Wellington. Altoether about 5000 feet of film will he shown descriptive of life in "God's Own Country," together with | a selectedfprorgamme of comedy and high class drama. The enterprise of . Messrs Hayward, Clark and Vile in securing for Masterton so highly instructive «nd educational a programme will Joubtless be rewarded. A telegram was received from Auckand last evening announcing that the films had been despatched by mail train last night, so that they should reach here by 10 o'clock tcI night, and be ready for the matinee I at 3.30 p m. tomorrow. As "Living 1 New Zealand" possesses features of much interest to the rising genera tion, it has been decided to give matinees on the afternoons of Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, at 3.30 o'clock, special concession being made to school children. By request this unique programme is to be shown at Feather;ton on Thursday afternoon and Carterton on Thursday evening. Th« Masterton season will be limited to four nights, as the programme is in urgent request in the South. Keserved iirats ! may be booked at Inrs and Godd- ! ard's.

THOMPSON PAYNE PICTURES

The Foresters' Hall was a?ain | crowded (o the doors un balurday afternoon, when Messrs Thcnipeori and Payne presented their pictures to the juveniles of Maslerlon. The '. Hall was again well filled in the evening. To-night the usual change of pictures will be shown, when patrons may expect a programme well up to the standard. The new series will include "The English j Derby, 1910," "The Death of Charles the Bold," "A Komantic Young Lady," "The Hanger and the Girl." "The Romance of a Butterfly," "Life in Malacca," "By the Sad Sea Waves," "I hi! (Jerman Ovs-head Railway," "The Barber of Seville," "The Old Strvedore," "The Old Lamp," and "Mow the Poor Live in Paris." The various prizes for last week have been allotted as follows;-Best verse, half guinea, Miss Eileen Clark, 2fi Walton's Avei'ue, Masterion. Malu,ee prize?, over 10, Louisa Wilman; unck-r 10, Roy Tompitinsmi.