AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 September 1913, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

THOMPBOK-FAYNE PICTURE!.

A WELL-VAKIED SEBIES

'l'he new bill to bo presented at the Thompson-Payne Picture Theatre tonight is prolific in choice subjects from tho people's favourite makers. The excellence which lias stamped tho programmes at tho F'loetric Theatre in the past is well sustained by to-night's brilliant series. The lead- ' ing drama is "The Toll of Fear/' by the Lubin firm. The picture illustrates how a lonely environment plays on the mind of men and leads to tragic results. Dick McKnight, a depu-ty-sheriff, of Santa .Cruz county, receives a. telephone message from the sheriff of an adjoining county that Pc-.. dro Aquillo and his band of outlaws' are on Santa Luis canyon. Dick's brother Bill is away iand the young deputy resolves that he will go him- j self and try to track the band. He j leaves a note for Bill, stating his i quest, and goes forth. Getting into] the mountains he finds <a notico tack- | ed to a tree,'which reads, "Go back, or you die with the sun." lie continues his way, but fear overcomes him, and in a.delirium he enters a hut and shoots himself. Bill, the sheriff, returns home and finds the noto from Dick. He starts in'search of his brother and finds him dead, with the. ominous paper clasped in bis hand. Bill in turn experiences the same fear. He mounts his horse and rides, he knows not where. He penetrates into an old "deserted mission and secrets himself in a crevice. There he becomes crazed and fires his revolver at'the .-walls -until-'they fall and bury him in a living tomb. A big selection of dramas will be shown in •support including "A War Time Si- j ren" (Kalem), "Pete Tries the Stage'' ' (Lubin), "The Family Tyrant" (Ka* (Lubin). Amongst tho comedies is 1 a very laughable item Crystal Company's leading lady Miss Pearl White in,,."A Tangled Marriage." Others include "Pimple, Detective," and ''Billy Bumper's Boy.'* A fine collection of educational items include "Views, of Sydney," "Steirmark," "How New York Treats the Poor," "The Golden East," and "Turtle Fishery." There will be a grand matinee at 2.30 this afternoon. At the matinee, Lan-sdowne and the j side school children will be admitted free, on account of the firm's anniversary of their opening. Nest Saturday the main school scholars will have a similar treat.

TOWN HALL PICTURES. "GREAT POSSESSIONS." At the Town Hall to-night th> management will submit &a entire* change of programme, which included Several wonderful productions of the cinematographic world, The star item entitled "Great Possessions," by the Pathe Company, is a beautifully coloured drama -which cannot fail to prove a very big attraction. Cabestan, apoor hawker, sells his truck to raise funds for lfis passage-, to the colonies. He leaves hia IH* i $?J?*-$^ XI h °" " aa <i S of "neigh- I uo'urs, who neglect him shamefully. The Httle boy escapes, and is re* I ceived) by the > owners of a toy shop and he becomes apprenticed to the family. His former, guardians disappear and leave their little girl behind. . Paul begs of the toymaker to take the little girl in and they do so. Cabestan, after eight years, has made his fortune in the colonies, and. is on the/point of leaving for France when in defending a friend he is accidentally shot. Before dying he entrusts Carterhut with the duty of finding his son, and making known to him his fortune, which is very large. Unfortunately the poor fellow's dying words are overheard by the villainous couple, and they attempt to steal the money, which is placed in Catermut's charge. In the struggle the scoundrel meets his placed in Caterhut's charge. In the j ed. The woman, however, manages to steal Caterhut's money and makes off with it to France, with the object of claiming Cabestan's fortune. Fortunately, however, Caterhut reaches.France just in. time to frustrate her plans. "Photographer and i Blotter" is a line Edison, number, telling how the guilt of a clerk is , proved by the reflections of a blotter in a young's girl's hand mirror. The ' young man.has photographed import- i ant designs in his employer's office, { and,betrayed them to a competitor. ; "Rambles, through Bass Pyrenees" is a magnificent scenic item by the Pathe Company. "If We Only Knew" fihows the A.B. Company at their'best in a wonderfully realistic andi powerful drama, hi whidfra missing child, after numerous marvellous ] adventures, is restored to its parents, j "Gaumont Graphic" as usual has > much that is interesting to unfold, I while the "Water Nymph" and "Col-1 lecting the Bill" are guaranteed | laughter-makers. The children's ma-1 tinee promisee a rare treat for the i little ones.

"THE QUAKER GIRL." At the Town Hall on Tuesday, October 14th, J. C. Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company will stage for the first time here the remarkably, successful and magnificent-; ly mounted ■ musical comedy, "The Quaker Girl,'" which enjoyed a record mn in Sydney and Melbourne, and which is attracting large and enthusiastic audiences in Auckland. For the past thirty years the Royal Comic Opera Company hag been regarded as the best and most popular organisa-

tion under tho J. C. Williamson management, and it is therefore not surprising that the announcement of their comin4g to any city of Australia or New Zealand creates an amount of pleasurable excitement amongst playgoers. The ranks of tho royal comics have been filled at \ arious times by some of tho best comic opera artists the present generation has produced, amongst them" being the following ■■: — Nellie Stewart, Florence Young, Violet Varley, Maggie Moore, Florence Perry, Grace Palotta, George Lauri, Howard Vernon, Charles Kenningham, Wallace Brownlow, Fred Graham, Henry Bracy, Hugh J. Ward, and the late J. C. Williamson himself. Of course the above-named were connected with the Royal Comic Opera Company at different periods extending elver a number of years, and it is questionable whether at any time during its prosperous career the premiere Williamson organisation ever included such an array of talented and popular artists as those who interpret the characters in "The Quaker Girl," and playgoers will have no hesitation in arriving at this conclusion when they glance at the following names: —Misses Grace Palotta, Blanche Browne, Olive Godwin, Jessie Lonnen, Billie Barlow, Connie Milne, Vera Pearce, Lybus Caffyn, Jessie Caffyn, Elsie Stevenson, Ina Milne, Ruby Armstrong, Mrs Lauri, Mary Morris Smith; Messrs Leslie Holland, Jack Cannot, 0- R. Bantock, Edmond Sherras, Fred Reade, lon Maxwell, Arthur Lisa-ant, S. Middleton and G. Young. "The Quaker Girl," which will be staged here on Tuesday, October 14th, proved the most successful musical play staged in Australia during recent years. The box*plan' will be opened at the Drear, den at 8 o'clock. A queue will b« formed from 7 a.m.