AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10688, 15 July 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THOMPSON-PAVWt: PICTURES.

"THE VICTORIA CROSS."

The matinee and evening entertainment at the 'Foresters'' Hal] on, Saturday drow packed bourns, the excellence -of the pictures well meriting the support (accorded. Willi characteristic enterprise the firm will present two -more fc% st>..r pictures to-night, viz.: "The- Victoria Cross" (depicting the Charge of the Ligjht Brigade in the Crimean War) and the great lita'i'a sensation, "Tlie Lost Daughter." Such a star cf stans, as advertised. for the Foresters' H'a'l this evci.i»iing, has inevor been equalled in the annals of cinematography. "Tire Victoria Gross," or "The Charge of the Light Blrigjde,," is one cf it he most glorious spectacular military displays j ever screened, and in this feature j film the Vitagrapli Co. have .introduc•ed the stirring event ;'l.v accordance with the* poetic and artietic graivdeu.r of'ithe famous poem. The story is woven around the heroism of a. young i officer, the winning of his spurs amd lhi'3'decorat/rn !by Queen- Victoria with [ the. Victoria Gross for distinguished braveiry, th'a whole making a thril'ling drama that (should .inspire the heart of every .true lover of the Union Jack. Ir.i "The Lost Daughter" the plot hinge's, upon a no'bJoman's plot to get hold of wealth L'ct hi?, as l t'he outcome of Jit's learning a family secret. A .mother's self-effacement is a very absorbing and intense situation of this-' fin© photo play, -and the whole forms a particularly strong drama, splendidly worked out, and .bristling with' acute situations. This photo play cannot fcil to appeal to all who are enthusiastic in th'e. sSiadow life depicted on the screens of cinematograph theatres. Jitv addition, a capi-| (ta,l series' of the latest pictures direct f.i'om the i manufacturers wiilfl he showiii'.. "A Surgeon's 'Heroism," i Selig's "Badly Western Yarn," the type that are ever popular, will am-1 doubted!}* he upheld by "E%ckbeard," Blinily, the hi Vitagrapli smile-muk- j er, wffil hold the boa,i-ds> Hn "The Ven- J tituloquist's Trunk, and things will 1 also' ibe made merry with "Oh, Those « Eyes," by the American Biography J amd "Stage Struck Lizzie,," 'by Edi- J son. There is the Gaumont Graphic, I and the latest Pathe Gazette, with everything cf new-yy .interest. The comic element is anore than well upbeld. iSipecial miiiSical selectiou.s •by the 'capable professional T.-P. orchestra will be rendered. i

MINSTREL AND VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. The English and American Minstrel and Vaudeville .Company will lopen a three nights' season in the Masterton Town, Hail to-night. The company conisistis of sixteen artists, each member being ai specialist im his or htr tb ranch <Jf entertainment. Included ,am gome of the cream of English and American Vaudeville, and as •a. •clever, laughter raising entertainment 'tins band of artists is hard to equal. The leading performers aire Joe Gardiner and Ffonrie ,Le-iinar, who are expert .exponents tif the now famous ■art of jiu-jitsu, audi in this* .role they introduce some very wdnderful and isennational 'acts. 'The extraordinary

ability of Miss Le-mar is .shown to advantage in the novelty act entitled 'The Hooligan a<ral the Lady," in which the art elf jiu-jitsu is shown, in a- wonderful manner. Supportiing these two stair iperiormers .is a band of vocalists, dancers, tricksters, nad comedia'nls, who together make up an entertainment full of merit, and which .cannot Jail 'to provo an attraction to lovers of ireal amusement in MasteirtO'Tl.