AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10512, 29 December 1911, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

THOMPSON—PAYNE PICTURES.

The customary crowdted liou<3B greeted tdio exocpfticiiial'ly fine progihiriruo screened at the Foatosltefrs' Hail last evening by the popular Thoim/pfson-Paynie maroa)ge;ment. The dramatic portdoni comprised an excellent selection;, including "Bete of the Forest," "By Aid of the Lariat," (■a ba'i'Wjaniit tale of itGie Indriian oouinitrv, fall of exciting details), "A Mex'k'aui' J-oani of Arc" (a. first cllas® pr'pdudtioiii depicting iumurgelnt li'fe and inod'es in Mexico), amd "The Gottv.edabai' of' St! Anttoony" (an Egypitdam roiriainic© of exceptiooiiail merit). "Tan the Cthincse Empire 1 ' depicted liilfe anidi wort in the Flowery Land, wM'e "Ood-fisltiin/g froan a Tr'a.wfer" was of am educative and splendid Pafthe Gazette placed be/i forte the audience tile most reoento happ'enikiigjs iiii the Ol'd World 1 . "The and ' 'lntrepid Davy" were two exc'elteiit comedies. Comic filLms ' were plentiful, and impair ted the) niddeSsary lumouir to a' very excellent programme of tlii© latest cii&altioiis in-' the' ttiWrr.'a tographite art. Visittons dur'inig the* lioliday sieasoin from, other parte of" Ne>v Zealand have been loud am tliisCr pirr o of tine stmdi'neas 1 of the pi'ctuires and the splendid style in wihddh tJiey are produced by the firm's capable aakL popular manager, Mr Harry Harrison 1 . Sweet music by tlh-e prohtfienlt T.-P. 01<bhestra added to the enjoyment of all. 1 'he ii&uttl matinee will ta&fe place to-imOrtw afternoon, at 2.30 o'clock.