AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 7 October 1913, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES. "VENGEANCE." Another goodly audience was present at tho T.P. Electric Theatre last evening, when "Vengeance" again proved popular. An excellent comedy was shown in "Too Much Mother-in-law." Pat is hen-pecked by wife and mother-in-law. Jenkins rules his homo unchallenged. By chance Pat and Jenkins exchange overcoats. An expensivo present Mr Jenkins had purchased for his wifo readies the home of Mrs Pat. Sho thinks hubby bought it for her, and is delighted. To get the necklace back, Pat burgles his own house. The plan succeeds, and peaeo is eventually restored to both households'. " r J*ho Soul of a Rose" was a. pretty Lubin romance, featuring Miss Ormie Hawley, "Their Stepmother" was an excellent domestic play by the Selig Company, which showed how a stepmother won the hearts of her little stepchildren. The Ivalem Coy. presented an exciting item in "The Circle of Fate." "Mama's Boy" was an Imp production, showing many complications in a domestic tangle. ""In the South Seas" gave a realistic account of Chinese piratts among the pearl fisheries. Two very fine scenic items were shown in "Poets' Haunts" and "Abingdon to Oxford." Several fine comedies included "A Disastrous Imitation," "Bloomer as Acrobat," and "Married in Haste." For Wednesday's programme, the management announce "Tho Banker" a 4000-foot production.

TOWN HALL PICTURES.

"SPANISH BLOOD."

The usual big attendance was prel sent at the Town Hall last evening when the current programme was again submitted. The main feature, "Spanish Blood," again proved a big attraction, the many sensational developments in the piece, being greeted with prolonged applause. The splendid series of up-to-date photoplays supporting the big drama make up a splendid collection of interesting films. The picture portraying the last English Derby with its sensational episode proved quite an exceptional production. The vividness 'with which the race is shown and the happening of the accident, when a foolisl; suffragette rushed in fronc if %. K.(ng'« horse, got to be Seen to tie realised. This [is worth the price of adrisis«ioJ ■ I witness. This fine programme' will !>e screened again this evening; and jn [Thursday niglit the famous pVo'du''j tion "Quo Yadis?" will be. shown for j a first time in Masterton. The mag- ( nificent reception accorded this won- | derful nictui'c may be gauged f JV> ~ a ' the fact that it 3,1 "TiprecedentI ed, i'uh in tlie Old Country, where it ' was regarded as the acme of film pro j duction. . .The box plan i« open for this great feature, and patrons should i book early and avoid disappointment.

THE JULIUS KNIGHT COMPANY

[ At the Town Hall to-morrow evening the J. C. Williamson management will present Mr Julius Knight and their New English Coitiedy Company in the much heralded success. 1 "Milestones."' Mr KnighFmay "bo assured of a • hearty welcome from his many admirers in Masterton. So much has been said and written in favour of the new play as to create a more than ordinary interest among theatregoers. Probably no play has ever come to this country bearing such universally high credentials from press and public. "Milestones" has 1 become quite an international success and is one of the very few English plays that have been as successful in New York as in London. Its appeal to people of all ages and tastes, its sympathy with human nature, and tho briskness of the dialogue have helped to make it one of/ the most remarkable comedy- successes of recent years. The Sydney Morning Herald says of "Milestones." Tho i success of "Milestones" is proof that the drama as art, when it is the real thing, has a great public waiting in Australia, for a chance to respond to such a call upon it. "Milestones," of - course, has the advantage of being a [ charming play. It is full of human ! appeal, and its commingled humour and pathos bear the unmistakable touch of nature. . Moreover, it embodies a new and attractive idea—f that of the development of one set oT characters and their descendants during the whole half century of their lives. The marvel is that the scheme Vas"not hit upon before. The "Milestones" box plan is now open at the Dresden.