AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10680, 8 July 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES

"ROMEO AND JULIET."

To-night the star attraction at the 'Foresters' Hall will be a beautiful reproduction of Shakespeare's world famous love story, '"Romeo and Juliet." This drama -has been especially secured ia view of the local Competitions ini order to give those ladies and gentlemen who are competing in the dramatic and histrionic sections a*n opportunity of seing Shakespeare's famous characters interpreted by the greatest Shakespearian actresses and actors in the world at the present time. JS T ot only should the picture be of special interest to' the comipeitition's entrants, but it will provide a pictorial if-east for the general p'nblic. Messrs Thompson :and Payne deserve e.veny credit Ifor the able manner in which they are catering for local picture lovers by providing them 'with such excellent ipiohires of world famous dramas. Shakespeare's immortal tragedy, "Romeo and Juliet," is told in colours 'by the rathe Fa'ere Art Film Co., and patrons avill be able to fi.w"'!iarise themselves with all the 'thrilling incidents of that 'famous Montague-Capulet episode. The balcony .see, lie, the secret wedding, the fatal duel, the flight of Romeo, and the tragic ctndi-ng of the lovers, are all depicted with wonderful realism. Tfc is ip-layed in Verona, and the sites chosen ana most beautiful. The picture is 3000 feet long. A well assorted .series will be seem in conjunction with .the above. A pretty pathetic Lubin drama is "The Angel of the Slums," and "Forgotten" by Vatagraph, with two clever Yitagraph children talcing fnv-t place. A very laughable .'farce, Allv, v by Edison, lifts b?eu constructed 'fox* laughing purposes only. There is a heap' of 'healthy ifun in "Bunny and the 'Twins." Something quite out of 'tho ordinary is "A Lady Aviator," Miss Harriet Quimby, whose daring feats know no limit. A 'cablegram in the newspapers last 'week announced that Miss Qu-imby 'had been killed at Boston on July 3rd, while performing a dangerous feat. She fell one thousand feet into a lake. Pat-lie's Gazette lis, us Visual, newsy with its titbits, and "A Trip Round the World in Two Hours" pounds good. The mus-ic (by the T.-P. orchestra will be a feature cif the (evening's entertainment.