AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10518, 5 January 1912, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES. A.notfcr crowded hoiuo greeted the chsw;ge of progirannne at tlhe Foresters' Hial'i last evening. Altogether fifteen, films were screened. Each was of a luo.iCt'orknis nature. The recent n-a.va.il disaster shows the effect of the explosion w'Jjiioh ca.usod audi havoc to the Firer.dh haiiticdii.p Llberte at Tbuillon recently wais shown with all itts tenia.c itallivui, frcm the battered, hii'lik to the fishing of bodies out of tlhe harbour. Two Path© G'azettes (Anst.nvJian and English) containing iinteresting and' educational scenes, and the usual "modes of to-morrow". There was an oxcepftion«% good array of first-cla>ss dramatic studies, including "The News-boy Hero," a tale of di'iiak and poverty, and the umselfieh nature of a crippled paper ru> ner. "'J he Poet of the People," "A Tale of the Sea," and. "A Gipsy Dra. inn.." "Some Manoeuvres by Italian Cavalry" was tlie snbject of another fine film; and was- much appreciated. The- comic lelenuent was -worthily repifctcmited by fouir excellent films. "Bill Gets GEampa,gne and "Bill's Widow" were extremely funny, and wore heartily applauded, and added their quota of merriment to a rea% txcolknt progiramime, whidi will be repeated this and to-morrow evenings.