AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10115, 10 October 1910, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES. . The popularity of moving pi ctures was fully demonstrated by the large audience that attended the Foresters' Hall en Saturday afternoon and night. The usual change of pictures will be presented to-night. "lhe Manter's Wife" and "A Knot in the Plot" are films manufactured by the American Biograph Company, and are classed as masterpieces. Histprical subjects dealing with the periods of the French Monarchy, have always proved most acceptable and the film, "Catherine, Duchtss of Guise," should be a favourite. A programme would seem incomplete without scenic films, and the new series, will contain "Snapshots at Henley," in Darkest Africa," "Islands of the Venetian Lagoons," and "Buffalo Hunting in India." Among the comic subjects to be shown will be "Tontolini as a Bullfighter," "The Chanticler flat," and "Foolshe.ad's Cannon Duell." A special lighting scheme has been arranged for the Foresters' Hall by Mr Payne, and it provides for several electroliers, fitted with 1000 candlepower lamps, and when completed the hall, for ite size, should be the most brilliantly 'lighted in the Dominion.

GRAHAM'S ENGLISH GQMEDY COMPANY.

"THE BRIXTON BURGLARY."

' When the Fred. Graham Comedy] Company make their appearance at i the Town Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday nights it will be realised that Mr Graham, the star of this particular organisation, is not at all in the condition of Joseph Surface, who. it will be remembered, was "embarrassed by getting himself too good a reputation." The London Daily Telegraph spoke of him as "one of the most natural and versatile comedians on the British stage," and that criticism has been amply corroborated by the leading journals of England, Australia and the Dominion. As the dry old millionaire I in 'The Belle of New York,' who is ["threatened with intelligence," Fred. Graham's public receptions were such as to unbend the severest misanthrope, while in 'The Brixton Burglary," in which he plays Regin-j aid Pontifrex, he laughs the heart's laugh through all its complications, like Horace Walpole, and "none crows like Chanticleer." His business is convincing, his manner of saying things makes everybody else laugh, and he invar ahly sends his audience away with little remembrances of the cares of yesterday or care for those of the morrow. 'The Brixton Burglary' or 'The Man from Cook's' is, a long, wholesome laugh from end to end of three flying acts, and fits the Fred. Graham Company like a glove. The box plan is now open at Miss Rives' and indications point to the Town Hall being taxed to its utmost capacity on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.