TOWN HALL PICTURES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 August 1913, Page 6

TOWN HALL PICTURES.

"QUEEN BESS" There was a large audience at the Town Hall, Masterton, last evening, when the Masterton Picture and Entertainment Company presented far the last time the programme headed by that Stirling comedy "In a Fix." grand, change of. programme to & be presented this evening will include; a star production loi high, This' ,is 'Bess'V (he> Jove story), enacted by that great tragedienne, -Mine. Sarah:;Bernhardtv.and I her full company from the Theatre i Sarah.Bernhardt, Paris. Apart fromthe fact that it will afford'the Masterton, public an opportunity of .seeing the divine Sarah display her matchless powers as an actress, the educational, historical, patriotic, and romantic value of the absorbing story will be bound to mflse an irresistible appeal to all British "people beyond the seas. The story opens at Plymouth, where Queen Elizabetlyand her court are assembled, awaiting with feverish anxiety news of the Spanish Armada, which is threatening to destroy England, body and soul. Presently .Sir Francis Drake bursts in, and announces that the Spanish Armada is utterly destroyed. The ,story then goes on to tell' of the romantic attachment between Queen Bess and handsome Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; how Nottingham and Bacon conspire to overthrow Essel, his arraignment and subsequent: death on the soaffold for high treason, and the grief and remorse of tihe for the death of the only man she ever loved, makes a. romance I whichi Has ho parallel bn any stage. ' The story lends itself admirably to (the df the gl'ea'i tragedienne, t and the. film faithfully portrays the magnificence of the acting. This is not the only star on the bill-of-fare, as the Gaumont Company will present "Back from the Dead," a picture .that lias caused a sensation wherever presented. Other pictures of interest are "The Merry Widow," "Miss Srripton's Jewels,'' "St. Cloud to Moreg," "Scenes from Volendam,' "Bidoni Orderly," and the Warwick Chronicle. The box plan for this season is now open at* the British and Continental Piane Company.