AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 August 1913, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES. "Full up" was the order of things at the T.P. Electric Theatre on Sat-/ urday evening, when the enterprising management screened the weekend change of programme. One of the usual big features was screened in "The Price of Silence," a Celio production, which met with i marked appreciation. The plot was. intricate and well acted, which combined with good photography made an excellent feature play. Another line "special" was the Lubin production of "Memories of His Youth." This was a very fine drama and introduced Miss JRomame Fielding, who is leading in the world's popular player contest. The theme handled was pathetic and delicate in the extreme and" contained the famed moral of "honest is the best policy." Probably the item of the evening was the Barker film "With Human Instinct." This was a special showing the high training and wonderful intuition of a bulldog, which was instrumental' in saving a child's life and in bringing a burglar to earth. Another good animal &tory was "The Detective's Dog," which showed how a Newfoundland dog rewarded its kind master. The remaining drama was entitled "To-the City," and showed the pitfalls which beset girls coming from the country to seek employment in largo cities. "Eclair Journal" gave the usual fashions and animated news. .Numerous comedies were shown, among which were "A Bad Boy's Diary," "Aran Wanted," and "A Deaf Burglar." This fine pro-, gramme will be submitted for apprpval again this .evening. For "Wednesday the management announce the scheeHing'of three specials in "The Face at the-Window," "Zaza," ahrl "Zuma, the Gipsy," three of. ttie latest' film releases.

TOWN HALL PICTURES. "IJV A FIX." The usual Saturday night full house was recorded at the Town Hall, Masterton, when the management presented a novel entertainment headed by a 'remarkable comedy by the Walterdaw company, entitled "In a Fix." The picture entails a very laughable and romantic plot, and shows the marvellous versatility of the popular Danish ' actress, Mks Nielsen. In this new departure she will be even more welcome than hitherto, for she displays an appreciation of real comedy that is as remarkable ■aS-'it;:t8 : ;-'ntply--''enjoyable. / '';She--fully ; enters into the spirit of 'thei character and, gives us a finished performance equal to that .of the most popular of our English actresses. It is a sentation of read rollicking humour, and cannot fail to create hearty laughter whenever presented. Another pieture that is splendidly arranged is the artistic Kalem production -"The Engraver," which shows Red Galvin, who is chief •of a, gang of counterfeiters, with headquarters in a mining section. John Taylor, an expert engraver, had almost completed the plate of a twenty dollar gold certificate when he dies. [Ralph Davies takes his place. Galvin sends an order by a half-witted Mexican for.sulphuric, acid. Davies, with Taylor's, daughter, puts a note into the envelope saying he is in captivity. The sheriff and a posse kill Galvin, and rescue Davies and Madge Taylor, who agree to become partners. This is, p unique production, being full of stirring "episodes. Another picture, "The Man He Might Have Been", depicts i % bo? who longs for education, but his father sends him to work. He still has ambitions, to better things. He gets reckless, however,'and marries the wrong girl, instead of .the one he loved as a boy, which ends unhappily. The management announce that they have acquired the sole rights to present in this town on Wednesday evening next a production in which the now famous Sarah Bernhardt will appear in "Queen Bess." The box nlan for this season will, open at the British and Continental Piano Company th ; s morning.