AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 11 December 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

"ON OUR SELECTION,"

', Tho announcement that tlie Berfc ) Bailey Dramatic Company will product) 'On Our Selection" at tho Town Hall 011 Friday evening, has caused more than an ordinary amount of interest among thoso who havo heard favourable accounts of this play as produced in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Auckland over a series of phenomenally successful seasons. Mr Bert Bailey, one of tho partners in the com- .) pany, has for a number of years held | prido of place in Australia as a brifjliant and refined comedian, and one* ! of his partners, Mr Edmund Duggan, iwho is- also in the cast of "On Our Selection," has gained equal fame as a character artist. Tho two in oomI bination make a powerful comedy force and they are supported by a specially selected cast of English and Australian artists. The box plan is open at the Dresden. TOWN HALL PICTURES. The Town Hall pictures are steadil? growing in popularity, and large audiences are attracted each evening toy I the excellent programmes screened and* | and the comfortable surroundings,, ft big bill is to be submitted for toj night's usual change. Fourteen films-la-re listed, and they iinchid© teome masterpieces of animated art. Drama, as usual, plays a big part a.nd it i« of a high order. "A Feud in the Kentucky Hills" presents an aspect of the American vendetta in-tfoe wild scenery of Kentucky. There is* "The Masked Smuggler," another exciting story of adventure that will enthral thospectator. There is also the usual choice selection of industrial, scenic and comic subjects, and picture-goers may be sure of a good evening. A« the Town Hall is engaged for Friday evening the final screening of thismagnificent programme will bo given to-morrow night.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES

"GREAT CIRCUS CATASTROPHE.

To-night's programme at the Foresters' Hall "will contain the sensational drama "The Great Circus Tragedy." The acting is superb all through, w'hiFo tho photography is first-class. This 'magnificent drama contains thrilling scene after thrilling scene, tho daring wire-walking act at the fire being a very sensational and spectacular episode in this splendid picture. Lite other pictures contain the pick of the World's bast makers, and include "Her Brother" (Vitagraph drama), "The Black Sheep" (A.B. drama), "A. i Close Call" (A.B. drama), "A Matter of Business" (Lubin drama), "Waiting for Mother" (Pathe-' comedy), "Love and the Motor" (A.B. comedy) and several scenics. To-morrovr night two additional highrclass dramas will be presented, viz., "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "Lieut. Rose and the Train Wreckers" (tho Clarendon sensational dran»a). The matinee on Saturday afternoon will contain these two pictures "-ell ns "Tho Great Circus Catastrophe. "