AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10692, 13 August 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

MAGGIE MOORE IN lIIISH-AUS-TRALIAN COMEDY.

•Miss Maggie Mooro is deservedly; on© of the most popular Australian actresses to-day. By means of sheeroutstanding merit she worked her way to tlie top, and stayed there, and a Maggie Mooro play :a a drawing proposition always. Everybody has happy recollections of "Struck Oil,''' and when Miss Moore says that her lmiie part in; "Mrs McSweency" au'l the play ityolf is still more to her liking, she is saying a good deal. ■r. is only a .little while since the pieca was first produced in Sydney, and yet its fame has been voiced almost throughout .Australia. For it is an entirely Australian play, from an

Australian .book, with a. blend of c:e-vil-may-care, rollicking Irishness, running right through it. It gallop* 'along, and fun gallops with it. Early booking will assure many laughs. Delay will bring only regrets. " 'Tis better to laugh than regret." The plan is on view at the Dresden.

MASTERTON PICTURE COMPANY

THE FLYING CIRCUS.

j That the programme of: high class .filmg at precant being shown at the j Town Hall is appreciated was again j evidenced last evening by the large audience that was present. The great attraction is, of course, that superb J Nordiek drama the "Flying Circus," , in which one is worked up to a high, pitch of enthusiasm by the many daring and thrilling episodes which arc clearly portrayed upon the canvas;. The .whole piece bristles with sensation, and the various scenes are so* realistically portrayed that it is not. difficult to imagine that one is witnessing the acts of real live crcus performers. The beautiful love vertt that permeates the drama, tends to | make it more attractive. Everyone I who appreciates highly artistic moving pictures should see this extraordinarily clear drama. The remaining film also reach a in'gli standard,. and prove a very fitting background to the main attraction. "The Heart of Man" and the "Female of the Species" are dramas of exceptional merit and great dramatic force. Australian Gazettey "Ancient Rome," and "Birth of a; Dragon Fly" are educational scenics which cannot fail to please, while their valuV as educators is undoubted. The ripple of laughter which runs, around the building clearly indicates' the merit of the comics, of which "His. First Law Suit," "Fainter and the Pigs," and "Spiritualistic Convert" are special types of amusing pictures. This superb programme will conclude, to-night, amd thosa in search of something real in photo-plays should make an effort to be present.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURE*.

TWO FAMOUS SENSATIONS

The current programme at the Foresters' Hall drew a crowded house, last evening, every picture being an exceptionally good one and rewarded with hearty applause. The star picture, "The Flower of the Mormon. City," ifi a most attractive stciry, full of dramatic situations amd ,cf pathetic appeals. Whilst quite a young girl the heroine of the .sccry.goes to Salt Lake City with her prostrated father, her mother having recently died. After a eojourn of ten yexrs there sho is told that she must marry one of the priests, but ao .she is.ii.ii love with a settler across tlio border, she finds, tho cider's commands .somewhat irksome, especially a:•< death is threatened if the girl doeo not acknowledge the authority of tho Church, and tliey —tho "father, daughter and settler—decide to leave the neighbourhood. A team of horses is. procured, but just when freedom is within grisp the agecl' father falls a victim to heart disease. The lover leaves G-lwii'tine to, watch the dead whilst he procures assistance, and the elders arrive and take her away. The" next day the marriage ceremony is performed, but the priest has little to be ple.?©?d! about, as his future bride faints awayShe is soon after rescued in a sensational manner by her settler-lover, and the happy couple go to New York, where they live quite happy, as no doubt they were entitled to do. "Nick Carter versus Zigomar" was another splendid picture, se.isation after sensation being thrown upon the &cre<?n. It is a picture which should; be seen. "Love and Tears" was a pitiful ytory of a newly-married husband's neglect of his sick wife. During the .night the "lord and master" goes cut to ,a masked ball and. is thoroughly enjoying himself whilst tho mother of his. child i»s lying on fcer death-bed. On his return tho woman is dead, and he if. left with the infant to care for. "The O.'.iep That Suffer," was also ,1, good, interesting dramatic study. Facial expressions illustrating the five senses was a good production, and caueod mmv hearty outburst" of laughter. "A Holiday in New Brunswick," spp.-it in shooting .the rapids and in catching .salmon, was mrst instructive. The comic films were very interesting. "Where the Money Went," "Tilly at the Seaside" mid "Widow Joakins' Admirers" being exceptionally good.- "The Old Home Week" was a clever and disHcme Week" was a clever and distinct story cf exceptional merit :t<> a comedy. This programme will be repented to-night, when the entertainment will again commence at 7.1.1 o'clock,