AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 9 January 1911, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

"MR PREEDY AND THE COUN- | TESS." Mr George Willougliby and his English Farcical Comedy Company \ will appear for one night only at the j Town Hall on Wednesday evening next. The demand for reserved seats for the production of "Mr Preedy and the Countess" has been good since the box plan was opened at Miss Rive's. It is stated that "Mr Preedy and the Countess," though billed as a fares-comedy, belongs in reality to a class of its own. The fmt is said to be of the intelligent order, as distinct from "knockabout" and riotous humour. It thus amuses all classes of theatregoers, a large proportion of whom • require to be able to account intelligently for their laughter. R. C. Carton, who wrote "Mr Preedy. and- the Countess," has a literary reputation that places him in the foremost ranks of living dramatists, and good judges have expressed the opinion that in "Preedy" he has excelled himself. Mr Harold Parkes will create the ''amusing role of Preedy. Ttie Countess will be played by that popular and accomplished actress, Miss Beatrice Day. Mr ..illoughby " will also play an important leading role, and will be supported by Misses Amy Willard, Nellie Mortyne, Stella j Payter, Messrs Hugh C. Buckler, I Harry Halley, Arthur Cornell, Harry I Overton, and others.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES.

The current programme was'shown for the last time at the Foresters' Hall, on Saturday'evening- to a de- 1 lighted audience. This evening the bill-of-fare will contain a number of pictures of exceptional merit. Among them are the following :—V''The Virgin of Babylon," a production of the Ambrosia Company, ana generally acknowledged to be--the most beautiful picture ever turned out. "The Man and the OaLh," a very powerful dramatic study; "The Attack on the Mill," a stirring. military drama, founded on Zola's famous work, and depicting an episode 4n the FrancoPrussian war: "Wilful Peggy," a delightful study, in which Miss Dorothy Nicholson, the famous "Biograph Girl takes.the leading role; "Catalina," a drama founded on another of the late Emilc Zola's works; "Jones at a Ball," ' a particularly good comedy; "The Death of Michael Grady," a Vitagraph drama, and "Transport in Indo-Chinn," which is exquisitely tinted.