AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 May 1913, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES.

"NERVES AND THE MAN."

Judging by the remarks <nade by \:'<i, liight's T.P. audience, tho prosen •;■ programme has fully hit tlio popular taste. It is certainly a very happy selection of moving picture oloi'u ill's, antl th eleading fihis, "Nerves .-.v.1. iho ?ti:i.n" (a photo-play by tho Kd'son. Co.), and "Saved from Court Mariial.'' ni'o both highly meritorious productioi s. Then there is the evor>:i>]»t!hir "Broncho Billv" in the'Es■sk:.:y dra-m "The Child of the Purple Sajr;-.'' "The New Ranch Foreman" i- »Ur, a particularly pleasing -n-oving picture story.- The seenics are all v:c>l. and in "Tho Army Manoeuvre, in the Alpines," we have one of ;h:-' he-: sluiivn for srtmo time. '■'B~riin Fire Brigade," "Northern Gip*k.s," "Sagatin Valley" and "Devonshire." are also excellent sonnies. The conied : es are a widely selected Int. "Robert's Last Supper" is an old story of "cookie" and the policeman. In this ca«o the course of true love is interrupted by the advent of "Bill Sykes," and sorne furfny seenas. are enacted. Others aro "The Family Xext Door," "Glued," and "Hits Turn." There will be ft matineo at 2.30 tomorrow. ,

''THE BUTTERFLIES.''

Tin's, vaudeville party, direct from England-and fcknith ■ African, and now touring New Zealand, will shortly •appear in Masterton. Their programme's arc arranged, on -good lines with much versatility, but their refinement of style is always noticeable. There is "no straining a,ft?r effect, but when and wherever there is an opportunity uo turn some point or outlook into witty absurdity, it is done, and vet—and h?re the success of "The Butterflies"- comes in—the audience is compelled to realise that fch.-rfi- is a reasonable connection between the original and the burlesqued. "The Butterflies" present fun, and fun galore, but when* a sorio"us item is given it is claimed to be arI tistic. The" booking office is now open at the Dresden, and it is stated the returns are very satisfactory.