AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 March 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

BADMINTON HUNT. ' To-night the popular T.-P. Electric Theatre will screen the usual raidweek change, when an excellent series, will be presented. A picture of unusual interest will be sliown. in the Badminton Hunt. This is a long film, and is a very faithful production of the real happening of England's yearly meet at this place, which is recognised as the world's greatest fox hunt, From a cinema* seat one can see a gorgeously mounted crowd of men a,nd women followan exciting chase midst a huge pack of hounds. This programme is verystrong in drama, and includes thePirate's Daughter, a Selig selection of •some moment. Lieut. Rose will again; put in an appearance in the .role of hero in The 'Ship's Mascot.' Tha Young Millionaire is a Kalem drama showing the life and love .story of acripple. The plot of this drama is unique and quite out of the ordinary run of .drama. A Fugitive From Justice is a Western selection produced by the Lubin Company, and is .full of exciting situations and events, wliicK are well portrayed in this company's: popular style. An. uproarious comedv will lie shown in The Bachelor's Bride. Pathe Gazette will supply topical items. Cheesemaking in New Zealand is a film which will also prove of great interest. Other fin©' subjects include Funnicus at a Festival, A Xapolitan Sketch, Villages and Customs of Ceylon, and Whiter Than Snow.

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO.

■Selig's spectacular drama' The Count of Monty Cristo is the premier attraction included in to-night's new programme at the Town Hall. This is undoubtedly an excellent example of high-class spectacular moving picture production; the scenes and mountings are in keeping with tho piece, and the dressing is on a magnificent scale. An army of performers is engaged in the piece, in some instances as many as three hundred persons appear. Tho drama 'occupies over three-quart-ers of an hour, and the interest is sure to he well sustained throughout. The film is an adaptation of Dumas's romance. The -subsidiary items are Lake of Dreams, tho latest Lubin drama; Editor Millionaire, Hepworth drama ; Outwitting Father, one of the Essanay C'o.'s best -comedies; Gaumont Graphic; Highways and Byways of England. The second series of these very interesting films embrace Strong-Armed Nellie, Caught and many others. This programme will he shown for three nights only, commencing to-night.