AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10544, 29 January 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES. j MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB. The "star" picture at the Foresters' Hall' to-night .will be- the greatAetbourne drama, '•'! he Mystery. oif a Hansom Cab." This: famous., play raa-for three year's "at the Adelphi Theatre, London, and it is certain to be pt-puiar at the' Foresters' ' Hall. The" story is too familiar to' all to reqaure an* introduction. Suffice; it is to say that speci'al artists were engaged to enact the piece, the photography i& 'of, the best, and that the presentation by Mr Harry Harrison wiU be up to the usual high standard. A unique feature of this picture is that the words of the play will be rendered by that well-known lecturer, Mr Alfred Boothman. Supporting this film, is. "The Cowboy's Bride," a Kalem film of a sensational Western inoident, and will prove a very popular number. "The Wager and the Wage-earners" is an Edison production, and is a powerful drama written about a great industry. "The j life Saver" "'portrays the doings of Jack Ronald, the dare-devil oif a Lifesaving Corps. It is a case of jealousy ■•and love, in which the hero has the'' opportunity of flowing how lie can magnanimously save the life of a. rival. "Jimmie's Job" shows how Jimmfe gets away to ,a baseball \ matcli by "the usual course of "being' sick," and! has the opportunity _ of saving a lady from the machinations of a pickpocket. It turns out that r sQie is the fiancee of his employer, 1 and she intercedes 011 Ms -behalf when ' he is about to get "bounced" for be--1 ing seen at the match .when he was ' supposed to be sick. The second ser- [ ies rvf Di?lhi Durbar (pictures will also I be shown.