AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10292, 21 July 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES.

The Forester'-' Hall was well filled last evening, when a most interesting j •collection) ot nhns was screened to 'the accompaniment qr by ,the T.-P. Orchestra. Some parrcui larly; gestures v rr«-! I exhifeked. - One* uhowinjl; how Ger- | man PtagoonsanA their horses cross; I a i T)Txt,-it>iwas eeNpsed by "Rice GroWf' ' ing in China," a picture dealing with the cultivation of the cereal most favoured by the inhabitants of the Chinese Empire. From the purely acenio point of view, "The Alps of Jap-' land, Sweden," was the best, though. ■ "The -Waterfalls! of Naragossa" was Iby no" means- lacking in features that pleased. The dramatic items contain historical, cowboy, tragic, pathetic, &nd love Stories in abundance, all tdM with a ; realism which intakes a direct appeal. "Royal Justice" and "A Love'V were very fine istudies, the fatter telling how a wohelped an artist'in the time of ■ his trial, • even 'though: he had neg-" leoted her in ; the hour of his prosperity. VThe Cattleman's -laughter" is woven amidst ranch life surroundings, in the Far West-' .' 'The' Mysteries of the "Bridge of Sighs" was a powerful drama..' Al' number, of : capital comedy and -comic subjects;: were submitted, maMng in all a firstclass programme, "which will be repeated this evening. The' children's matinee will take place to-morrow afternoon, at 2 o'clock.