AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 16 January 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

INTERNATIONAL PICTURES.

"HIS LOST MEMORY."

The. change of programme at the Town Hall last evening drew a large attendance of the public. Those who were .present were rewarded by enjoying one of the best picture programms yd- presented in Mastortoi). Each film i: ;i ,>ecial in its own particular, branch, and being splendidly ■screened, left nothing; to be .desired. The star. picture is a. 3000 ft Nordisk' drama, entitled "His Lost Memory/' The central figure is a wealthy business man, who gets a hurried caJEto attend an important meeting. ,He sets out by motor car,- but the- car breaks down, and he hires a new one. An unknown traveller, who happens to resemble the hero, asks to join the party, and is permitted to do so. They are overtaken by a storm.white running along a forest road, and the car is smashed by a falling tree. All the occupants are killed with the exception of the one about whom the story is written. He comes.to his senses bruised and hurt, and cannot remember who he is, or anything of his former life. After a series of adventures his memory is partly revived, when he strays into the coantry near his home, and finally goes into bis own house, where the sight of his little girl's picture restores hiss memory. He is mistaken for a', burglar, and is roughly hainuod by a couple of policemen, but everything comes out light in the end. TKCMPSOW-PAYNE PICTURE* i „ "PURCHASED FRIENDSHIP." Last evening at the T.-P. Electric Theatre the mid-week change of mctnres attra-r-tivl a large audience. The mainstay of the nrogramwe v:as a very fine »vr.fhiction hv the Nivrdisk Co.". "tititKl "Dearly Purchased Friordshin " V: is a seoucl to "Love and FriendsblD.'' and features Miss A4ta Neilson. wl"> takes her ppvt in. her usual <■>>■' optional .style. The plot is well laid, amidst socir-J and military ouivt-Ts. and is vei'v stirring throughr-nt. a discovery of a -iheat at cards antt a cuirt-mnrt 1 "! hoing only of a mnnbp-r of exciting situation's. The photography and a'cting throughout tire perfect, and amply justified the aonrceiation arcov<V ;r ) it. "An Apache Renegade," the Indian feature of the nhiht, vvjis -a'verv fine play* by the Ka-lem Co.. showing a renegade's deceit and trickery in a idling Indians against the. pione>"s -of the West. The CVs effort in "A. Moonshiner's heart," was snlendid. be.'.nrr ;\ representation of illicit wbi'Sk.V/denling in the hills—and in-terwove-i with the Jove .story of a "moonshiner" and a sheriff. "A j Girl's Fii-avcw," another fine >stiMv, i shoivri'l the. stormy wooing of a. cov?t----j try girl bv a suitor regarded bv •!•■•-

a« unsuitable. An exceutionallv / '•" y lot of instructive films included t.i-'-> latest '.'Pathe Gazette" "The De£* once of the Dardanelles " "Waterplane trials in the Jan. Navy." and a "Visit <o Dan/.io-." Other pictures of interest were "FTawkoye as Onastgnnid." "PetroniHa's .Steeplechase," "Queen of the Kitchen." and "A Burglar Alarm Mat." This series '.'ill i.e shown. f:i-night and. tomorrow n't/hr. For Saturday a snecial feature will J:-e given in "The Goklen Cage."