AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10607, 13 April 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THOMPtON-PAYNE PICTURES. • "A capital programme," was the verdict of the large audience .rhich gathered at the Foresters' Hall last evening. The dramas were certainly the best- that have been" seen in Masterton for some time, particularly "Won by Wireless," "The Girl and the Motor Boat," and "The Cbwjpuncher," all three being exciting studies —the last-named beaug one of the popular Indian subjects. "In Cheyenne Dav®" introduced seme marvellous 'buck-jumping and lariat throwing. I "The Courtship of Miss Wriggles" was a very laughable comedy. This excellent bill-of-fare will be shown for the last time to-night, and should not be niie&ed. The children's matinee will take place this afternoon, at 2.30 o'clock. ,

LAND OF THE SHAMROCK. The dramatic company which the Taylor-Carrington management have newly organised for the purpose of touring the Dominion with the abovenamed Irish drama will appear at the : Town Hall on Monday, evening next. jOPhe play is founded-upon one of Lever's best Irish, novels, and is described as being sensational, emotibinal, patriotic, and vastly amusing. The scenery used, to illustrate the play. Bias, been specially painted in Melbourne for this' tour of the Dominion, and includes some very beautiful land- ' scapes and seascapes. The time is , fixed in the stirring days of '9B, and the characters are all well fitted for stage representaiotn, being French I pies, Irish exiles, Moonlighters, etc. 'Mr Taylor has a remarkably . strong comedy part in the hero, and Miss CJarrington a strong emotional character in the heroine, so the performance should be as perfect as the production.

"EVERYWOMAN." Crreat interest is being centred in ■the production of the big spectacular drama entitled "Everywoman./' to ; be (presented at the Town Hall on Thurtday, April 25th. In \he title role Miss Hilda. Spong, who was engaged "by Mr J. O. Williamson during his recent tour to America, is* said to exhi-■,.;• ■bit dramatic genius of a high order,. y particularly m the scene where sho denounces Passion, in which Iher acting created quite a'sensation in Sydney and Melbourne. The following i» . a ihrief outline of the story of "Eyerywbmian":— The curtain; WseS'iipoft i beautiful classic- interior, with, a buoyant/trio for esty,, linked h&nd-in-hand. with, rosy gairlands, and attired in. .white, Kke I the figures on ah Etruscan vase. "Bv- ' erywomau," as day dawns in the gar!den,: wakens sunshine : .with ■ a hurst of silvery laughter, joins-her attend- > ant maids, and posing before her nrirT • ror in girlish coquetry, j&uddenly perceives, strangely shadowed!..."therein, thiat richly; attired Sir Flaiitery. . Flattery tells the., wondering .maidens that he' is the Herald of Love the ; F>vat, and invites ■.; an to his bright domair- Troth, in .ilhe guise of an ugly witch, with Nobody, warns the heroine of danger; hut Youth urges her to geek Kiag Low at the theatres. The second canticle shows the stage of a New j York theatre. JEv.erywbman, now the star, has with her' Beauty, Youth, and but , the managers 'quickly decide "that the last named is in the way, though she timidly ex|daime that she; canning very sweetly. "Bah !,• Absurd !'*. exclaims the imanager, and Modesty, not liking to - leave altdgtiher, is imprisoned within ' an adjacent stage rock. "Everywoman," gorgeously-sheathed.in a gown of golden, weib and emeralds, has now , /Wealth as her companion and Witless to carry her lap-dog, but amide* all (these distractions she is still intent ( upon her pilgrimage of love. There . is a dramatic scene in which 'passion, 'la conventional actor in crimson, veiI vet, the face beneath a highwayman's. '.mask, .lays'siege to her in tender song 'and burning vows. The. maiden .ex-' !ults in the thought of the wars whieh -women wage,, and is sinking into theembrace of Passion, when from within ithe rock sounds, the pity-pleading voice of Modesty, "Everywoman, fare thee well." How this happens is one lof the most intense dramatic incidents of the piece, and culminates in Everywoman denouncing Passion for his falseness. It was at the convulsion of this act that Sydney playgoers cheer'ed Miss Spong's brilliant acting and called her before the ■ curtain again /and again.- Miss Hilda Spong was } described in Australia as being one of I the best actresses yet seen in this part - of the world. Mr William Desmond ■will take the par* of "Nobody." The 'plans will be open on April 23rd, at I the Dresden.