AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10674, 22 July 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

MASTERTON PICTURE COMPANY

The Mastorton Picture Ccrrpany nvill present a new and deVghtful programme at the* Town Hall to-night. "The Sunbeam" is a comedy drama ' which is worth gomg a long way to pee. Tli© little one ig playing with Tier doll While her mother lies sink. Tho woman dies, and tfhs child, thinkfag lic r ar.'e'tp, goes dowinstairs in r.-a.-cii o.f a playmate. She visits an ■old maid, and soon melts her coldness. Nest islie goes across the holl-way to ii "bachdlor, amd affects, him the game ■■way. The old maid goes ait'ter the •fMd, a.nd wlxle* she is in the haolielor's iroom several tenemeirt-young-=ttters steal a "scarlet fever'' notice ijnd stick it on' the bachelor's door, -fFhiis quarantines tho three until tho "Health Officer abpears and releases tihem. They then take the cJidlc! to -iintiJ its ma/rmma, and find her dead. As each wants to take the child they end the argument most logically— a ■weddiing remits. "The Handicap" is anbtljer exceptionally fine drama, tlraoe Gordon, with her .mother amd Sbrctfier Harry, lives in : .v house and -finds the gi.nl and her mother alone. 3£e insults Grace, acid the brother enters and orders the landlord from the llioufle. Hariy reads .hat there is a fliandicbp for t'ix-year-oWs. at Jawrez, «nd he enters Gcrace's liovrse Rio for -tli© 1,000,000 dollar prize. Harry proposes to ride the horse himself, tint the Mexican plans ho shall be -duped. Harry being unable ta ride, Grace dons the jockey uniform, rtderj iher hcrse to viictccy, and wins tli-e flalrize. The 'remainder of the progi'jxnrp'9 compiises beautiful scenery, dramas, and side-splittfinig <*on!ict<. |