AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10197, 27 March 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES.

The Foresters Hall was packed to the doors last night, when the current programme was shown for the last time. This evening the manage, ment will place before their patrons a programme' which they claim to be the greatest collection of sensatoinal subjects ever seen in Masterton, and which will include the following : ' 'The Sunday Edition'' (depictiiig the exciting experiences of a reporter in search of news for his paper); "The Attack on Fort Ridgley" (a representation of the famous fight between the United States troops and the Sioux tribe in,, the early days of settlement in America); "The Rough Riders' Romance" (a thrilling tale, of the Cuban war); "Pauland Virginia'' (a pretty idyll mounted in picturesque scenery). In addition several charming comedies and beautiful scenics will be exhibited, making in all a programme, well worthy, of the firm's reputation.

"SEVEN DAYS."

The Town Hall should, on Friday j evening, hold a bumper house to! welcome Hugh J. 'Ward, " Miss Grace Palotta, and their clever associates w hem they appear in .Masterton, for one night only, wita the latest farcical comedy > success,. "(Seven Days." A Sydney colitem- j porary .says:—-"Nothing more'fare- j ical has been seeii in Australia for J many a day, and the piece, in addi- i tion to its, brightness and fun, has I a few. subtle touches of pathos thVfc j throw the comedy into relief. "It is j one of those* plays that sot. the audience talking after they come out—brimful of humorous situation, and sparkling with witty is scarcely.possible to imagine a more novel situation than a character who enters with the rise of the curtain, is on the stage through three acts, does not speak a word of dialogue until he is wanted to clear the tangle. The character is a burglar, whose depredations are attributed to spiritual influences." The Jim Wilson of Hugh J. Ward is said to be one of the very many good things he has done,, during his Australian career. Miss Grace Palotta is also pi'pvided with a, part which enables her to show her ability in the best and most pleasing aspect. The principals have /an exceedingly powerful company to support themj which includes Miss Maud Chetwynd, Mossrs Aubrey Mathieson, Reg. Wykeham, Robert Greig, H. H. Wallace, and others. The box plan opens to-morrow morning, at Henderson's, stationer.