AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10167, 17 February 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

JOHNSON-JEFFRIES PICTURES. Nothing in all the world'of s livmg V' pictures has excited, such universal 1 at- / tention :iaa tho Wonderful ;pisdtieisMt: by theßJograpK : df the- great Johnson?.. Jeffries?fistic ;the New pa- i pers. ' Its extraordinary j>opirlarity' * practically completes the chain ■of world-wide interest evinced by this event.' All accounts agree in describing this now historic contest as something : quite new and surprising , in the tactics and methods of up-to-date fighting men, as" depicted by the Biograpli, so clear-cut is every act and incident of the battle. concentrated upon the screen, that-the picture re-, production is said to be both visually and mentally better comprehended than if witnessing "the actual contest. / Masterton can only, be visited on Monday evening next, at the Town.Hall, under the direction 'of• McMahon Bros., whose spirited enterprise has become quite proverbial. In addition to the fight pictures and their very interesting preliminaries, the first .part ; of the programme will comprise a/series of .al together new and delightfully diversified living picture novelties, which have just arrived from Europe, and America, and are sole and exclusive, no other copies being available by any other management whatever. Notwithstanding the gi-eat outlay in securing ffche sole Dominion rights* the McMahon Bros.r announce popular prices. .There will be no early door, or extra charges, and seats may be reserved at Miss Rive's, where the box ' plan opens this morning.