AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 13 December 1912, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES,

GREAT CIRCUS CATASTROPHE SEASON.

The Circus Catastrophe season will bo brought to a close at tho T.-P. Electric Theatre to-night, and as this is also the last night of Edison's most ambitious production, Tho? Charge of tho Light Brigade, TAP, patrons should make certain of seeing these two especially good things. A peculiarly happy selection of ft.no pictures accompany tho two leading stars mentioned above, and everybody will find their taste gratified' in the big variety of tho splendid items furnished. Last night's big audience expressed their full gratification at the fare provided). Tho ! Charge of the Light Brigade is a. marvellous production bv the Edisom Co.. and this enterprising firm took this picture on the actual ground of the world-famous charge. Every lino of the great poem is represented in this remarkable picture, and every child should seo what such an. episode* was like in actual fact. It is difficult to realise that the whole thing is simply a well-worked out dramatic representation. It is astonishing to what lengths moving picture artists will go t» secure sensational scenes for their employers. In The Great Circus Catastrophe the leading actress actually walks along the telephone wires to escape from the roof a burning sixstoried, hotel. In tha large cities of the older world the telephone aaicE telegraph wires are placed on the* top of high buildings. It is on these lofty and slender wires that tho eVI cape from the fire is made. Hal£way a.ross panic seizes the heroine* [ and she falls 130 feet, but is caught by the firemen below, who are waiting with their life-savin? device or net. A truly wonderful picture* this, and one not to be missed on» any account. Lieutenant Rose and. the Train Wreckers is another of the- sensational Clarendon series. Some hair-breadth escapes are seen. In one case the lieutenant jumps over a bridge, and alights on the top of one of the carriages of a rapidlymoving train below. Mr Grough at the Seashore meritst special mention. This is a light andl breezy comedy of the first, water, by the A.B. Company. The lightrliearted American young people aro seen at a fashionable watering place, enjoying all the delights accruing from happy surroundings in general, and mixed bathing, interspersed with dancing on the pier, in particular. A full programme, will be shown at, thechildren's matinee on Saturday, commencing at 2.30 p.m. Tn th> evening a complete chance will be screetredT and two big photo plays am included. Nursinn- a Vrn'or. n Dutch bioscope plmt" nlav. and A Leap to Both of these star dramas ?■"•■> 3000 feet i'i loncrth, and a splenf!v>i including Jim Bludso lino Kalom-C'-'Trmnny's great hit, and ,-M, ,„