AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10186, 11 March 1911, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

BUFFALO BILL, WILD WEST

TO-NIGHT.

The MacMahon Bros. open m the : Town Hall to-night with a picture/ show which they claim will mark an epoch in this cla.?s of entertainment in New Zealand. Every picture shown will come from the great stock controlled by J. D. Williams the Greater, Ltd., a firm that boasts that it has never shown a picture devoid of special interest, and never handled a film not perfect in every; particular. The star pictures;of the opening programme will represent life in and about the greatest cirous the world has over known —Buffalo Bill's Great Wild West. This is the circus which caused such remarkable enthusiasm in London a little while back. All the wonderful menagerie of wild animals is shown, and some of the performances by these beasts are said to "bo the most surprising yet seen anyVhere. Naturally, the great cowboy and Indian interludes are included. These cowboys and Indians were not merely the genuine articles, but positively the best specimens of the genuine articles that -America could furnish. Other pictures are of proportionate interest, and appeal. . The management states that the pictures have not a trace of "flicker," and do not produce the slightest eye-weariness. Only one performance caji ba given in Masterton, and popular prices will prevail. "THE LTON AND THE MOUSE." On Thursday night next at the Mastorton Town Hall, Mr J. C. Williamson will present for the first and positively the only time here, the remarkable play, by Charles Klein, "The Lion and the Mouse," with Miss Katherine Grey, the brilliant American actress, and Mr William Desmond, the new Julius Knight type of actor, j in the principal parts. "Tlie Lion and | the Mouse" is said to be a powerful | four-act drama dealing with the phases j of "graft" employed by some of the | financial magnates of America. It, created a profound sensation when, it was first staged in New York, and President Roosevelt wrote the following to the author:—"Ybu have said in an evening what I have been trying to drive home for years." Senator Delaney also wrote about the same piece:

—"I thank God we have a man in our midst capable of writing such a. drama. May it penetrate the hearts and con-' sciences of those at whom it is so justly aimed —those who through their own cupidity would destroy every vestage of honourable dealing in* this country." "The Lion and the Mouse" is said to bo a play that gets to the very soul of things, pourtraying with'vivid and telling power the corrupting influences which attack the body politic, and attempt even to smirch and utterly destroy the administration of justice itself. Miss Ivatherine Grey, who ranks with Miss Ada Rohan as the greatest actress in America, and Mr William Desmond, ono of New York's most brilliant romantic actors, are both said to be at their best in "The Lion and the Mouse. ' Mr Williamson has surrounded the "stars" with a particularly powerful combination of dramatic artists, including Messrs Cyril Mackay, Leslie Victor, J. B. Atholwood, Winter Hall, Boyd Irwin, T. W. Lloyd, George Byrant, George Chalmers, Rupert Julian, Elmo Sinclair and Tlios. Foster, also' Misses Susie Vaughan, Alina Vaughan, Florence Gleeson, Elsie Wilson, Kate Towers, Alma Phillips, ■ Maud Wingfield, and Mrs K. Chalmers. Thursday next will mark the only appearance of Miss Katherine Grey in Masterton, as after a brief season in Melbourne she will immediately depart for America, where she will open the now Millionaires Theatre in New York in a play specially written for her by a leading dramatist. The box plan for the Masterton performance will be opened on Tuesday next at 8.80 a.m. A queue will be formed from 8 a.m.