AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10415, 8 September 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES. A- Ikrge , aiuddonoe . greetied : I'hie chiange of pxo'graraimie ait the Foneslfce«rs J HiaM' last evening. The films comprised spfeniddd drainwiis, baaiutiful soeniaa, and isomamfingly funny ,tibo last making a collection that would iba hiaaxl (to excel. The accomjpainiytLng amusac' wias of tbie ©est , and thja orohestma addled dm. bo mean; degree to the, evening's enjoypent. The dtemaitdo subjects were particularly good, each having a, isjveciail interest of lits own, amci calling forth admiration 3mm .afli. *"* Wedding , Belb" brou#t homo to a km&utenib owner the meed for better conditionis in thie- plttaes he, owned, through his only daughter eonitraoting'.'•- typhoad fever from garmis m, antificial- flow- ; lero mad© .by a Family of tenants:, itfijjoy being latiSised to form ihV boll in' uise at marriage. "'Judged by a. H&gtor Power" depicted the; punflislhimlent of a. jeadous-Wid school-, ang girl by >a .power other than'hiumiam, the'story being weffi thought:! out and, ctevea-'ly executed. "Madam:] Rex" was a mixture of gambling] and love, wilth a happy sequel, while] "The Tramp" was am exciting story: of. ejraititiude and ingraitditiude. "Test, of Friendship" was a first-class Ediisooi diraima of ian interesting and ex- ■ citing mature. The. comic t eliemmt; wias irepreseiKbeid by "His Best Girl's; Brothier,'' "FiattifchGesisi," "Faking a EomJbramdt," "Th© Now Cook," and "The Bragger," thie latter being a ixaortaoulajrfjy fine piiotoire. '"The Gorges of de Loup" was full- of heautil£ul soenes of. tumibMaig torrents and waterfalls ia> rniniatuire', it being one of Barfitoe'is latest and best coloured produatdon®. '■■"£. film, showinig .episodes ini the Me and funeral of Gardiinal Moriam' was a capital piece of photbgraphy. Thle opening scene I qe'leibriations at the jubilee of hi© coniseoration, and successively i oimifoldied wtere views: of tho GaTr*U- . inail'is palaoa, the body lying ,in (state, 1 'sand> last of all tho funeral prooeasaoni around' Hyde Park to thie final resting pHaoe. A iritumibeir of otJier iatexostiiiig pjiotrures wero .screened. The progralmime., whaoh is two miles in Itengtihi, .will be ishowia for thie last ltim© tonnight. Oni iSatturdiay aifternooni the qhiildrietni's matitwee wiiM take place, and mi Monday a pMitiouJiairly fin© picture entitled "Back to thie Primitive" will bo shown.