THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10097, 20 September 1910, Page 5

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES.

Thi fipw programme shown at the Foresters' Hhll last night is well up 'o standard, and «a' witreseed by a largo aed enthusiastic auflience 'Jha scenic suhj ct£ are very interesting, " viotorinK Through tne Gorge de , L'llerauit" "Swedish Csna-s" deserving speciiil niPistion. Ju'ts Verne's famous work "Mietiad Strogoff" is tdUhfuly reproduced on the screen in pictorial guise. What is, perhaps, the 6troi.gest moral cermon that could be delivered is depicted iu "The Way of tha Wutld, ,v showing Sabbath desecration and the young" pntst who goes iriicuthe world again to emulate Christ "Lieut. Kate, ft.N," is tie lavourifgof the series, and his exciting adventures with the gun runntra were.kenly followed. "Venetian Firemen" showa bow means must be adapttd to circumstances, a'id the agihty displace J by these fire-fighters in clm.buig laddt-ia and scaling wttlls tailed for lo>jl applause. The comic are txtremeiy funrij, and ciuntd great laughter.

"THE EEASS COTTLE."

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"Tb<T Braes Bottle," the pbe.nonitnal'y successful farce comady to be preuenttd' by Mr J. C. Wil- , lianison's - English , Company,,. \ evening, is-a lopsy-turveyistrv such ' as way i*s author's v hraj work, "Vice Versa" Professor and Mrs Fu*voye hive a dauphnf Svlvial engaged to Horace Ventimore, a young an,] struggling architect. He is commissioned by (He Professor, an antiquarian, to hid for certain curios at a tsU, but the prices ruled too high, and he- made no purchase. But. oq hia own account he bought a huge heavy brass bottle for £l. The Professor, his wife, and daughter leave him to return later on to dine in his chambers. .Whan alone he un-> seals the bottle, an explosion follows, and out comes Fakißh el Aaraash, who has been sealed up for thousands of years. Out of effulgent gratitude he sets to work to enrich his liberator. A caravan of camels brings huge chests and baskets of gemn and costly things, carried in by a posse of Indians. Horace will have none of these, and away they go. The Jinnee "blows a wealthy property owner, Samuel Wackerbath, into the room over the balcony. He comraissuns Horace to build him a residence to cost anything between fifty and <a hundred thousand pounds. Then he changes the boarding-house zoom Into a splendid Oriental palace for the dinner party. Divans, cushions, most luxurious fare, and a posse of Ethiopian servitors are all there. But nobody seems pleased, least of all the Professor, and in hiß discontent be is helped by Horace's rival. Spancer Pringie, who makes mischief till neat curtain fall. Then Fanrash builds a splendid place in a night where Horace was to put the house. Old Wackerbatb' storms, and is made to crawl on all fours until he capitulates. The Professor is turned into a wall-eyed mule, and Horace, and Sylvia, distracted, are at loggerheads and enmity. The Jime, finding that he rather makes trouble than joy, consents to banish all ■, recollections of unpleasantness from , everybody's memory. He does this, leaving out Pringle, who tries to rake up the trouble, but is treated, as an offensive meddler and gets bis quietus. The Jinnee is put back into his bottle—a clever illusion—and , dropped into the river Thames. Mr Claude Vertion produces the play,, which ie by arrangement with Mr Gaston Mayer, of London. , The curtain will rise at 8 o'clock.