AMUSEMENTS
THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES
Large audiences witnessed the afternoon and evening performances at the Foresters' Hall on Saturday. Tonight's programme contains a wide range of excellent subjects. Tlie dramas include, "Big Hearted Jim" (a popular type of story), "The/ Portrait," "Slim- Jim's Last Chance," while the Vitagmph's full talent is ably displayed in a thrilling and Wonderful production, "A Dead Man's ■Hon our." The latest Pathe -Gazette, and the gorgeous scenics, "Lakes and Falls of Plitvice," "Dome of Milan," and "The,lsle of Elba," hold a good position in the series. "The Harrison Troupe" and "Muscles Development" .are good novelties, while, the comic element is more than up to the firm's usual high standard of laughmakers. The capable T.-P. orchestra, under Mr Reihana Boyes, ably assisted the night's entertainment.
J. C. WILLIAMSON'S ENGLISH DRAMATIC CO.
"THE WOMAN IN THE CASE."
J. O. Williamson, Ltd., are sending to Masterton on Thursday night next at the Town Hall what is described as the greatest dramatic attraction that has ever visited New Zealand, when . their new English Dramatic Company, headed 'by Miss Mabel Trevor and Miss Elinor -Foster, will stage in all its entirety Clyde Fitch's great Soul-stirring drama, ''The Woman,in the. Case.'' The popular and successful management or J . C. Williamson, Ltd;, take pleasure in their endeavours to foster a taste for the more wholesome and natural in the sphere of dramatic production, and claim to disclose not merely the home truths of life set iii charming frame work, but to avoid the crudities and impossibilities usually associated, with this school of dramatic architecture. The play under notice is claimed to be an •unusually fine example of the new drama, from the pen of Mr Clyde Fitch, a successful American author and dramatist, and- its success, throughout Great Britain and Aus-
tralia. leaves no doiiibV of its ready acceptance throughout New Zealand. The box plan is at Miss Rive's.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10463, 30 October 1911, Page 6
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315AMUSEMENTS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10463, 30 October 1911, Page 6
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