AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 March 1913, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

TOWN. HAM. PICTURES.

THE OATH OF STEPHEN HULLEIt

Tho Unnvritton Law was such a great success that everyone will want bo see the sequel, The Oath of Stephen Hullei' to-night. It will be remebered that .HulLer, when in gaol, made his son promise never to marry, and this picture shows .how he kept ■ his promise. It is full of thrilling episodes, and .makes an irresistible ap]>eal to human nature. The film, lasts for about an hour. The Comiing Baok of "Kit" Denver gives a glimpse of liorne life behind a great coal strike. The food gets .scarcer and scarcer nnd the mother and father are almost distracted. The man imakes vain attempts to get Avork, but each day lie returns to tho little home penniless and unsuccessful in his efforts. A great boxer visits tihe town and offers to give £2O to anyone 'whom he cannot "knock-out" fin five rounds, "Kit" an old hand at thiis pastime, having forsaken it for the more certain livelihood of shovel weildmg. He goes to the Stadium and enters the ring, and the mudience are treated to a splendid five-round boxing contest. In the fifth'round "Kit" beats his man and receives' the £2O, which »uim. once again brings happiness into his family. All the striken are not boxers, (however. A splendid industrial film is that .showing tho interior of a casting foundry, and as the picture is coloured to .suit the subipct, tho audience find it hard to realise that thev are not actually in the great works. Tbia week'« Gauimont "Graphic i« nn exceptionally fme production, in- ' chiding a. grand uarade of elenha.nts. in which the Viceroy of Tndia. who lat?r was the victim, of a bomb outr ra'.re. There are ton long and: inter- i estinn; subjects on tlie nrogra.mme, which will lie segued to-night omnmeneing at 8 o'cjock.

THOMPSON -PAY N E PICTURES.

THE POWER OF A HYMN

Last evening, despite tho inclemency of the weather arid counter attractions, a large crowd assembled at the T.-P. Electric Theatre to witness the change of programme. The Samaritan at Coogan's 'Tenements was a fine dramatic study, showing the true heart of a downfallen renegade. The Power of a Hymn was a feature that appealed to everyone. The mother teaches, a hymn to (her boys, George and Sam, who are adopted by Judge Reynolds after the good woman's death. George proves a tractable and 1 studious boy, but Sam is given to bad associates. One afternoon the .Judge finds hi>m .gambling with a number of hoys in a vacant lot. He takes him home and in a talk tries to influence him to keep away from evil companions. But Sam runs away from home. Years later Sam is charged with; forgery and it falls to the lot of iGeorge, who hats become a judge, to sentence lii'm, which he does not knowing his brother. Sam swears vengeance on the judge and on tihe expiration of his sentence proceeds to carry out his threat. Here we get a run of scen&s which show how the old .hymn recalls a lost and wasted memory and prevents crime. A most uproarious comedy was presented in Alkali Tke' Plays the Devil, in which Augustus Carney, the well-known Essanay comedian. appeared at his hest. Two very fine dramas were shown in The Wav of the Mountains, and The Fraud 1 of Hope Mine. Two Gaumont Gra-, phics showed a number of toxical events. Oocoa-Mabing was an industrial film of . interest. Several fine eom r edies included. Didrhi.mis. Pat as Soothsayer, a.nd A Breach in Breeches.