THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 3 December 1910, Page 6

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES.

If any argument were needed in favour of the bill-of-fare provided in the Foresters' Hall by Messrs Thompson and Payne, it would be found in the crowds which nightly fill this cosy little house of amusement. The current programme is a really splendid one, and quite up to the standard which the firm have set -in the past. The films are of excellent variety, and embrace a wholesome mixture of scenic, instructive comic, and dramatic, all clearly, realistically, and attractively screened. The pathetic story of Miles Stajidish's courtship is graphically told, and is certainly one of the best dramatic studies shown at the hall. "The Heart of a Rose" was another of those delightful subjects that have made the name of the Edi-son-Company so famous in the cinematographic world. From the celebrated romance of Honore de Balzac is taken matter providing a film entitled "Eugenie Gaudet," which deals with a girl's self-sacrifice in order to save her lover's family name from dishonour. The programme, which has been well received by the audience, will be repeated for the last time to-night. This afternoon the children of Masterton will be given their usual free matinee. For next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Messrs Thompson and Payne have secured an attraction above the ordinary, viz., a splendid picture depicting the famous sculling race for th 6 championship of the world, on the Zambesi River, between Dick Arnst, of New Zealand, and Ernest Barry, of England. The picture, which was taken by the Warwick Company,' is a particularly fine piece of cinematography, and shows all the incidents of the contest.