"LA TOSCA" AT WEST.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 556, 10 July 1909, Page 5

"LA TOSCA" AT WEST.

> Sardou's master tragedy, ,"La Tosca," on-. acted with vivid power, was tho star picture I presented by West's, 1 at tho Town Hall last | evening. 'It is one of the most iaithiui ■ representations. of -, any , play,..that . has., jot., , :/ .;beon. presented; toth6 ,Wellingtonpublic: in kinematograph form, fasomatnig in plot, convincing.in its histrionics, ana exactiug'iu: 'its'dramatic. accuracy.'-i'liopiayopeiifi -wion • • tbe : arrest' of; Angelotti,' the brother, of the beautiful Fiona Tosca, for whom Baron Scarpia, the.chief :ot poli(io, has conceived an i , : v.; evil passion. , .Angclotti is assisted .to escape «. v-.-tfromthe prison of-St. Ango: by. Mario Cava- ' radossi (l'loria's lover), Tho osdape is idported to Scarpia, : who., .proofs to, Mario's : ■ r cottago to .aEcertam. the hiding place of tho ■ : > ■ Both Floria and . Mario: refuse the - information, whereupon Scarpia orders Mario to -be tortured in tile pi'c&etice of :her, lover,-; t who implores her; not .to Speak. But ithe :.'■■■■ -•;> sight '.of-MaHi'ss.agony 'becomes. too;, great - for 'her to bear, and , she.' tells. Scarpia :that - lies hidden in":tho well. .Mario and Angelotti ate taken to tho for- •; :; ;.mor's:ltfe being: but Scarpia.pronmses .w: Fiona her .lover's life ,if she ':will consent to be-"his.,'- Having seen, the order dispatched ' .that' the .rifles that are to shoot down Hario : shall ,be loaded with- powder ;only, sho, in r. : the ■ course of -a/ powerful scene, stabs Scar. pia. Tho treaclforous Baron has, howeTor, i ; -jsocretly; countermanded .the: instruction, and Mario is roally shot down, on discovering , '•>: whiohj ; tho /distraotcd>woman flings hersolf. into the nest world by jumping from tho ' battlements.: Among the pictures • .■ -'shown is >a Frenbli adoption' Of ..WilKiei Col--v lms ! s novel, ''.'t'ho'Ncw,Magdelen."i :ln eup- ■ i-port' of'.?"La Tosca;".-.a new .programme ;Of- • •■-subjects.Will be presented this ..evening, .including vanother art: study of ' equal- attrac- - j ;tiveness as those previously submitted-, en-; titled "Tho Return of Ulysses." In addiv - , tion to thesop.'star" .subects,, a varied pro- .:• v; gramme'.will include. '.'Scenes, in and' Around > Bombay," "Paper Making in Fabriano,"' "Toy Making in Paris," "The Puritan Maid," "Raised from - tho • Ranks," "The ~ i : 'Human Wheel)!',' v"Foolshoad Pays his , Debts,"'JA Donkey -That: Was Not an, Ass," •-"Tho Red. C|irlj" ■ "Tho Ragman's Bargains," v andr many others. :.Tho popular vio&-rcgal orchestra . will ..introduco a': musical oxtra- . •'• vaganzaj . called MAn Eventful Motor.'Ride."