AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10710, 2 September 1912, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

VIASTERTON PICTUHE COMPANY

"REDEEMED BY FIRE."

Tho cluing© of program mo at the Town Hall attracted large audiences at both afternoon and evening sessions when tho faro submitted earned wellmerited applause. Tlio public of Masterton are good judges of quality in picture filing, so that the appreciation displayed on Saturday is a criterion of the excellent series presented. The star attraction was "Redeemed by Fire," a very select English drama. This film is something away from tho usual run of picture dramas, being entirely English. The scones are artistically arranged, cleverly conceived, and the acting is of a very high standard. Tho final icene in which tho three principals in the piece tire saved from death by burning, is highly realistic, ar.d not a little sensational. The remaining films are well-selected. Tho dramas iue highly interesting, the comedies clever and amusing, while the teenies f.ind educational pictures are of the highest interest, as well a* being ci educational value. This splendid programme will be shown to-night, and to-morrow for the last time. On Wednesday another programme of specially selected films with the gre.it 'WVQ feet drama "A Woman's Way" as the star, will be presented.

THOMPSON-PAYKfc F!CTURES

"LOVE IN '.TIE TROPICS."

The Saturday -sessions at the Masterton Electric Theatre (Foresters' Hall) wore largely attended, and the programme greatly appreciated. This evening's programme will contain one of the finest love stories ever seen in Masterton, viz., "Love in the Tro-

pics." In order that their patrons should see the very latest and the best in cinematography, Messrs Thompson and Payne have secured this splendid picture at considerable expense. "Love in the Tropics" is the first coloured drama produced by tho Nordisk Company, and it is a revelation in artistic beauty. This story is \% particularly strong one, and there is a very pathetic vein in it. The jmmagomen-t regard the picture as tho best- drama of its clasg ever screened in Masterton. "Lovo in the Tropics" embodies a

romantic story of the love of an Eng- [ lisli planter named Cecil Brown, domiciled in Indb, for a native woman, Profula. An English woman, Violet Barry, who is in love with Brown, also tabes, a leading part in the story, which ends in England, whither Brown has taken his coloured wife, liie picture is one which con bins a wealth of interesting situations and experie hys. The name Nordisk is a guarantee of the most finished acting and staging. and the story itself is of peculiarly iiunvon interest, reminise-nt of Kipling's "Without Benefit cf floury. ' Tlie last iscene is a very pathetic one. •Ringing forcibly to one's n.ind Rowe'V f amou? Tines "0, Douh! Thou, gentle" end <n sorrow." I A splendid drama, t "?<>« Bemem- 1 ber Ellen," which is an adaptation of the great Irish bard's well-knoWll poem, is a unique picture, and must make itself,a-strong favourite with patrons. "A Beast at Bay" is an , A.B. production, well up to that cele- | brated firm's standard, and shows an , I exciting chase afte-r an escaped prisoner. The leading role- is in the hands of Dolly Nicholson. The Gaumont Graphic will post us the htest moving news,' and some especially chosen seenies will give us a pleasing insight into scenes we know from reputation rather than from actual vision contact. "His Daughter" is a very fine drama, which gives an insight into some forms of stage life. John Bunny iy seen in n screaming comedy entitled "His Mother-in-law."