AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 September 1913, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

THOMPSON'PAYNE PICTURE!. "IX A WOMAN'S POWER." Despite tho many counter attractions lastj evening, ft largo audienco was present at the Thoitipsoli*P n Theatre, where the star item wa" "In a Woman's Power." Cora re•£>ts George when he has spent all his und writes & note <isl\ixi liim to keep from her. The young fellow wills' OH her, and is threatened with a revolver, which, going off, wounds tho woman. George is sentenced to ten years' penal servitude, but is released on parole after four years. He now falls in love with-Marcelle and breaks his parole. One night he is taken to a gambling house run by Cora. She recognises him, and tries to persuade him to return to her, but he refuses. Enraged, Cora sends him a letter threatening to inform the police. George goes round td her house, and is followed by his wife. She finds Cora persuading George, and upon discovering his - wife, Cora tells her that her husband is a convict, and rings up the police. The excitement tells upon Cora and when the police arrive they find her a maniac. On her deathbed she repends and sends foi the couple who forgive her. An excellent supporting series of dramas wore also shown. "Tracked to the Sandia Mts." w:is a Western item by the Frontier Co. The Kalem Co. presented a brilliant story of a Kentucky feud in "The Battle in Virginia."' "The Scales of Justice' was a Selig production of considerable merit, and showed how a police officer was wrdngly accused, A domestic drama of some moment was "In the Blood." . A Hex production which was well received, "The Busy Bee ; " was a Study in bees and hori&V which pt'Gveu a Vel'J- pspiijal' item." Other educational items eluded Hie Eclair Journal and "The American Rhine." A good series of comedies was shown in "Bloomer as Negro," "Polidor in Danger," "The Tyrant Husband," and "The Way of Life."