AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10658, 13 June 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES.

"MADAME ' SANS GENE." """

"Madame Sans Gene," S'ardoa'-s play, which will be presented ifor the first time to-night at the Foresters' Hall, created a great sensation when first produced in Paris some years ago. Mine. Rejaue, as Mme. Sans Gene, 'nets her part to perfection, as ulso do M. Duquesne (Napoleon) and M. Jaques Doreval as Count Neipperg. The first scene is the Mme, Sans Gene, who -washes for iho nobility -and army officers. Among others are Bonaparte &nd Captain Fouehe. Fouehe, unable to pay his bills, runs aWay, and when Mme. Gene eailLs (upon- Bonaparte he also is unable to pay (his .bill-, • which is still in existence, is screened). Ho asks for itime, and .this Mme. grants. Shortly 'afterwards she meets Sorgea-it Lef-ebre. at a fair, and becomes his sweetheart. Then, the revolution breaks out, and' Lo'feibvre goes into action with his regimemit. Thieve .is '» fine scene of Bonaparte standing watching the revdlntionistis filing past. The closing ecenie cf the fimt. act depicts the wounded Count .Neipperg seeking shelter in Mme. Gene'* laundry. The second acit takes plate nine teen- years later, when Bonaparte has become Emperor, and Lefebvre (Dak-? of Daaizig) is married to Mme. Sans Gone. Count Iveipperg, envoy fiwr. thef'Austrian. Court, is exiled home by Niapoleon, : on account of his attentions to the Empress Josephine. Being new a person of high estate iin the new (regime, Mme. Satis Gene is informed that ijhe Emperor's sisters aro about to visit her. The Emperor's sisters arrive rather unexpectedly,' 'and aire first amused and then outraged at the plebian. manners of the Duchess. The Emip.ror is"enraged at her blunt manner, and is about to ring to -have her- removed,- when she presents her still unpaid washing ibil-1. Old .memKiries come Imclrin a rush to the Emperor 1 and all is'forgive'm. This production, which. is 3000 ifeet in length, 4s- an exclusive (Srtbject, and car* only be seen at the Foresters' Hall. lin. addition to this magnificent masterpiece, a lengthy programme of startling numbers will be smbmit'ted.