AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10435, 28 September 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

TH PICTURES.

1 'lie current .programme was screened the Foresters': Hall last evening to ft) good attendance. The programme• to,«aiigjht will include "The. Hi!-' .Alarm,'' ithe most sensational and thrilling production ever staged, and iwliioh had a run" of over . 600 ; nights in liondon,. with: enormous success. The feature of- this great i picture is the wonderful and vivid fire scene in which the spectator .witnesses .the alarm and!, the call out of ithe .Los An@elesi Fire Brigade, the famous American fire fighitens. . Tlie working of the world's greatest en-, gia&eering feat of . mod«rn, times is; vividly portrayed in .? 'The Panama Oanal, 1911.'' In this gi-eat educational study one cah see the wonderful labour-saving . methods, including the truck shifter, which doe® the work of over .400 men. The' Edison Comiprriny is well represented in a (thrilling drama- entitled "The Cardinal's Edict;" "The Norwood •Necklace" is a'' istrilring detective story told by the . American Biogr aph Compaaiy. Tlie 'comedies include "The Tenderfoot's 'Round Up," a very (hiunuorous Western story. A number of otlner first-class pictures will ibe screened, which •will' make up a programme of esjceptional merit. The: children's matinee will be held usual on Saturday afternoon { at 2.30 o'clock. •