AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 June 1913, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES. I "THE GOI) OF VENGEANCE." Special counter attractions last evening did not d'/fcer a. largo audience from attending th© T.P. Electric Theatre, w'hero the second acr-oon- | ing oi' the current programme was well received. The big item—"The God of Ver^oance" —again proved popular. it contain® a lomarkable plot ;n whicxi superstition, love, hatrod and fanaticism are the. predominating features. The unscrupulous attempts ox Easterners to uncover a valuable iewel which "was stolen from a great idol and vjry interesting and fxeitmcv and have, all the .fascinations which cling tw the. East and its myi yteritvi. A.n excellent detective story iis alao included in the Ivalem feature entitUl "Hod Sweney's Mistake." In this picture ivo are shown a jewel jobbery and the clever manner in vShich the.. miscreants are

caught. A fine dramatic item was givan k "The Greater Love," an Jiklison production in which an excellent and pathetic story is portray•ed. "'Keeping up Appearances" is an excellent comedy drama by tho LvibWi Company, featuring_ Miss Isabel A-iamon. Otter very interesting items are "Ring Off" (comedy's "A Tosr not Shed Tin Vain" (comedy), ''Tiogsring in Canada" (scenic), and "'"Ragtime Mad" (comedy). This series Avill be repeated this evening. There will he u big matinee at 2.30 -■o'clock on Saturday afternoon.

PUSS IN BOOTS. I This morning at 8 o'clock tlie box I plans will he opened at the Dresden for the first and only production of J. G. Williamson's record-breaking I pantomime oxtravagainaa "Puss in Boots," which is to be staged at the Town Hall on Monday night next. Although there are over 250 people engaged in the representation of tho pantomime, including some of the world's greatest pantomimista a.nd specialty stars. "Puss in Boots" :s staged on such a mammoth scale of lavishness that at requires no less than 200 tons of scenery and effects to present it on the same complete scale as when produced in Sydney recently. The whole of the effects are due to arrive here to-morrow in charge of a large army of advance mechanics and electricians «o there is no likelihood of a hitch occurring on Monday night. The reports which have reached us to the effect that "Puss in Boots" is the best pantomime yet staged by the J. C. Williamson management is backed up by the fact that it broke all known records in Sydney and Melbourne, I whilst, up to date, its success in the I Dominion has been simply phenome- j nal. A feature of "Puss in Boots" is the brilliant dancing of Mr Fred Leslie and Miss Ivy Schilling. They are seen in . two particularly fine ballets—"The Pierrot's Wooing" and "A Modern Diana." The _ first takes place in a quaint dormitory setting, with yellow-garbed Pierrots tucked away in bed until wanted for the final figure of Mr Leslie's and Miss Schilling's vivacious acrobatic dancing and posturing; while the second has for its setting a pre-Raphaelite bungal. The two dancers in most impressive hunting costumes, with the aid of a ballet m keeping, executing measures at once intricate and graceful. One of the most humorous events in the pantomime is that when "Pip" Powell {King Grabbu?) and Rupert Darrell (Cyrus Hanks) attempt to harness a highly strung horse (Messrs Whitmore and Hart) and equally funny is the item your # foot on the soft, soft nedal," in which Fred Leslie, "Pip" Powell and Vernon Davidson take part. A.ioth»r spec? feature of the pantomime are the numerous songs and melodies introduced, including the most of the "Ragtime" numbers, which are at present the rage, amongst , those which were most successful during the Sydney rum of the pantonnime are "There's someone in Australasia" (Miss Loraine), "Keep your foot on • the soft, soft p?dal" (Messrs "Pip" Powell, Fred Leslie and Vernon Davidson), "Robert E. Lee" {Fred Leslie and Rupert DarreH"', "Room for a Little. One" (Miss Alice Russon), •"Walks. Walks, Walks" ("Pip" Powell)', "When the Brass Baind Plays" (Miss Violet Loraine), "Oh, "Mr Dream man" (Alice R.usson), "Something in the seaside Air" (Miss Violet Loraine), "When you're Married Girls" (George Miller). "Got to sing in Ragtime" (George Milled, "If we all went on strike ("Pip" Powell), "All that I ask is Love" (Dorothy Firmin), "Consequences" (Arthur Davidson and Alice Russon), also "The Ragtime Violin." "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and_ "Everybody's doing it now" which is assisted with ,mome remarkably .shadow pantomime effects. - ...