AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10716, 29 October 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

» ~ .... ~ ■ -. -1 ,-... •■. MASTERTON PICTURE COMPANY AT THE TOWN HALL. 'Another big-house at the'town Hall last evening. Holiday-makers were present in full force, and from the applause which punctuated the programme, they enjoyed themselves fully. The Picture Idol, a cleverly conceived comedy film by the Vitagraph Company, is quite the best thing in comics that we have yet seen. The audience were kept in fits of7alighter by the" funny.episodes, with which the pwe^.'/.'fpirly'-bristled. Maurice Costelloi seen at his best, is always hard to beat, and in The Picture (| ldol he excels himself. Heaven Av];fenges (A.B. Drama) audi;; 'Child's Prayer (Lubin Drama) represents modem drama in its best colours. Broncho Billy and the Child is a fine representation:, of Western life, portrayed in Lubin's very best style. The many adventures of Broncho Billy provides much excitement, and in some cases sensation. Other films equally en < were Pathe Gazette ■ A^erigraalsL;bf 'Australia,' Tunis' and •Rheims, a trio of first grade seen-' ics, in which the beauties of' m&ny lands are wonderfully portrayed'. Love Knows No Bar, Escape of GaSj and One Round O'Brien are comedies which make the most stal<? persou'hi the •-H ! -i^ l --~.1.y'g }j „,t9 ".' teiatrk; -v fh e pro^' gramme is'eXcellenTßl through, while, the manipulation by'aii expert' op-| erator, sind... the, | ■■jbyHhe "orchestra,'- materially assist/in j 'making np a splendid- ©veuing-TsVeri- ' stertaiameat; ; . -witt'. be shown to-night for the last'time. •To-morrpw .evening a unique attraction feature being .the most marvellous cinematographic film of the age. The picture ii> entitled! The God of the Sun, and recolours tbVnum•ferb'us ■ - , This 1 ' is' ''&{sss:; ;,].v^S^«^r-o]p^.Viaiß# should be . l eeii;bj l 'all. > > '■' '