AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10659, 14 June 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

* MASTERTQN PICTURE COMPANY. "THE DOLLS' HOUSE." The Masterton Picture Company is faring wither trouble nor cxpontso incatering for its evOT-ihws'ufling audi'tors. The chief attraction to-nigbt-■vvf'll be Ibsea's delightful drama, l "The -Eolle' House." The setting; of this .picture :>s &aid to (bo superb, and the . acting vivacious , throughout* "The Dolls' House'' will be> supported by the sensational mjiliitiar.y drama, "Nellie's Soldiers." This "js «t masterpiece' in the cinematographic art. A number of screamingly fu<hay comedies will be produced, together Avith" dntercisting see'nic views IdesorJhing life in Lapland, -and Hanover.-Tlie 'whfole programme is instructive, educational and/diversifying. There is nothing unwholesome about it, xa& nothing which is calculated to unnerve tihe child or offend the isensibilities «f tihe .admit. The usuSal matinee is to be given tc-jnoifrow afternoon..

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There was a very large audience?at the' Foresters' Hail last might, ta view, the change of programme. The programme submitted was an excepy tionally dn.teireisiti.ng one from start to finish, .every picture being a worthy "ir«.piresentialt l iv'e of the cine- artists best. The star picture was "Madama Sans Gene," a historical reproduction of the time of the great Napoleon. Tli'© picture was brim MI of interesting details, and was noted with exceptional cleverness iby a strong role. Miadame Rejane, the celebrated •French actr€£s>, took the name part, and M. Duquesne made an excellentNapoleon. The plot of the drama was described im yesterday's issue, and the reproduction was well up to the reputation which preceded .the film. The Australian Gazette is a very interesting nximbelr. "What Fate Ordained'," is a Lubin drama, and exceptionally strong. "A Modern Ananias" is a good Selig comic. "Greek Types" show us'tlK fair maidens and men of poetic Greece. "Bob and 'Rowdy" m a hiftmous Edison comedy, 'and' "Daisy's Cowfboys" is another lauglhter-pirovoker' by the same firm. "Animated Toys" is a very SuiMvy trick picture, and delighted the children!. "Curing a Grouch" is air AtJ'as film,, and contains edme subtle situations, and caused roars of laughter. Several ether fine .pictures were also shown.. The programme will ba repeated to-might, and the children's miatinee wild take piace on SaturJiaj? alfternoon, at 2.30 o clock/