AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 November 1913, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

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"THE ATTORNEY'S CONSCIENCE.''

Both Saturday sessions saw the Thompson-Payne picture theatre packed to the doors by delighted audionces. The change of programme in the evening included tho latest Lubin masterpiece "The District Attorney's. Conscience/' Tho -Sjtory deals with a. workman who was dismissed for attempting to get his fellow workers to decbre a strike. Will Mason, District Attorney, and Ins j wife May, seeing indications of »■ f strike, .go td the factory office to in- 1 form tho owner, Fred Jackson. The | men become friendly, and; Mason invites the factory owner to dinner. Jackson later ha's an altercation with Tony Gazeco, one of tho leaders of tho"trouble. As per invitation, he goes to Ma.son:s bou.se to dinner.. Mason is suddenly summoned to bis office by a. telegram, and leaves Jackson to bo entertained by his wile. Jackson proceeds to make love to the , Attorney's wife, who faints and is J violently embraced. Mason, returning, finds his innocent wife in Jack- j son's arms, andiw suspicious. He goes to his rcjom, and presently bears / a shot fired, and rushing in, finds Jackson shot dead at" his wife's feet. A very happy finale is presented. The remainder of the programme ''Rogues and Riches" (drama), "Broncho Billy and the" Express Kider" (drama), "Tho Sheriff's Brother" (drama), [ "Bert's Reform." "Sharp Practice," . *'Marriage for Money," and "The Elite Ball." This exceptional series will bfl .repeated this evening.