AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 21 January 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES. Last night saw another crowded audience at the T.-P. Electric Theatre where -the current programme was screened •for the second time. ''ln a Golden Cage'' was an excellent presentation by the Nordisk Company, iti which "Saharet,." the famous dan-s-nose, inadt» her' debut as a picture performer, and received a well-mer.t-ed ovation. The story really contains the theme of the old spng t "The Bird in a Gilded Cage," and is brilliant! v acted in luxurious settings. A rich count weds the famous dancer an-1 takes her .to her home and daughter —having been married before. The story shows the- dancer pining for freedom. She teaches her step-daughter the free ways of life, and creates a desire in her to go out and see the world. A work accident, in which two rich gentlemen are hurt and come into the mansion for "help, cives the key to a way of escaping which is readilv taken. The final scenes, in which the count interrupts a danco bv hiiS wife in her wild abandonment in the motorists' house, and the terminating incident-, make the picture a ma-terpietv. "Under a. Flag of Truce"" acrain proved to ho a most popular item, being loudly and frequently applauded. Other Pino.dramas jvere "Hroncho Billy's Christmas Dinner." "Sergeant Bryne" and "The Riudu Char.ineiv' Numerous other subjects included "Just His Luck." "Sa-lsafh Vale." "F.i'ffel Tower." "Ziaoto as Laundress," "The T\in«r(ish"r." "G'aumont. Gra"liic." ;md "Bidona'is 'Forage O.n.'* On Wednesday (Anniversary night) a snecial holiday programme will 'bo shnn-Ji, including "Such is Life. M a. •JOOOft special, not yet shown in Xew Zealand.