AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10237, 13 May 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

MR J. C. WILLIAMSON'S OPERA COMPANY. "VIA WIRELESS." This morning - the box plan for "Via Wireless" will be opened ait Miss Rive's. On Wednesday next Mr J. C. Williamson's new London Company wiR present what is said to be not only tlie latest and most up4o-date''sensational play of the day, but also the most complete and original in its mounting and general effect that has ever been staged here.> The cerotra.l tableaux, will .allow | t!he furnaces and the 'casting of a big gun at the Diuirant steel works. The Hotel Bella Vista, Madiera, the '"•wireless" room of the. Mongolian, the wreck of the steam yaioht "Irvesisa," and the rescue of the survivors. The .chief characters will show Mr Ambrose Maiming as Mansh, a draughtsman at the works; Mo- Lionel Atwill a,s> Lieutenant. Someirs, Mr Eardley Turner as Durant, Mr Vivian Edwiaa-dis as Pinkey the works manager, Mr Charles Graham as Barling the "wireless" operator, Miss Evelyn Kerry as Frances Dur- ; ant, Mis 9 Em-ma Temple as Mrs Du- ; rant, Mr Charles Blackall as a Scotland Yaa-d detective, Mr Maurice I Dudley as O'Leary. The play will 1 be produced by Mr J. W. BazUatt. j "Elaborately Staged and cleverly acted," says the dramatic critic of the Sydney Morning Herald, " 'Via Wineless' is as different from the usual run of mefodrania as chalk is from cheese. In the average play of this calibre one expects to meet with I impossible situations, false effects, and poor dialogue, but the clever writer of 'Via. Wire-lees' would have none of these things, and its great success in England and America, and more recently in Australia,, is easily understood. There is an axiom that < on.ee obtained, in the theatrical profession, ',-pe.nd no mon?y that the public cannot see.' and ine Williamson Management havo dohhtdess had that in mind when equipping 'Via Wireless.' The big firm have long ago discovered the. 'open sebame' of adopting a policy of giving the best regardless of cost."

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES.

The present program/me of pictunes at the Foresters' Hall is such an excellent one that crowded houses are drawn nightly. Patrons are advised not to. mc'iss seeing- such masterpieces as "The. Vampire," "The Lesson," "Lieut, Rose and the Secret Code," "Th ? Cowpuncher's Glove," and "The White Rose." These pictures comprise the finest set of dramas produced by Messrs Thompson and Payne for some considerable time. A number of splendid scenias and, comics will also be shown, and the programme will be shown for the last time to-night.