AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 December 1913, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

THOMPSON PAY ME FUTURES.

AN EXCELLENT PROGRAMME

The popularity of the T.'P. Electric Theatre as a picture palace was well evidenced on Saturday, when both sessions were crowded. The evening's change included an appropriate and interesting star feature in the Kalem production of "The Great Labour Struggle." The owner of a factory, after years of toil, decides to give up active management of his works, and to take a wfll-earncd rest. He leaves in charge a manager who at once reduces wages, and causes discontent and even ruin toi the employees.* 1 The factory's business also suffers. The manager brutally illtreats a boy employed at the works, and this fans the men's resentment into a flame, and a strike results. Matters become complicated owing to the action of the injured lad's sister, who seeks revenge, but the owner appears on the scene and. the tangle is straightened out. The picture gives a capital idea of industrial unrest m tli3 United States, and is a. topical one at the present time of upheaval in the labour world. "The 'Peacemaker" was a clever Rex drairia in -which Mr Phillip Smalley played a wonderfully good part. "Fate and the Man" (Lux) showed a man's perfidy and a woman's resource. "A Bride of the Sea" (Dragon) held the audience in expectation and presented an astounding and clever finish. Several other very interesting subjects included "The* Angel of the Shims,'' "The Kissing Germs," "The Handsome Driver," "Legenl of the Eagle," "Sweeney and the Fairy," and the latest Eclair Journal.' Thia is a most interesting programme, and patrons should avail themselves of the opportunity of seeing it to-night and to-morrow night.

TOWN HALL PICTURES.

THE STILL VOICE,

There were record attendances at the Masterton Town Hall on Saturdday afternoon and evening, and that tlie .programme submitted was greatly appreciated was clearly shown by the hearty applause which/greeted each item. The star film was -a Vitagraph drama entitled "The Still Voice." This story teems with thrilling and dramatic episodes telling how the head of a big banking firm wrongfully discharges his cashier, thinking the latter responsible for the disappearance of a valuable document. The banker later fin4s the missing document and proceeds to the cashier's house to make reparation, only to find that the man he seeks has emigrated to a foreign! land. Years later the cashier having amassed a fortune, returns to his native land, intending to bring about the ruin of the man who wronged him. He succeeds, and the banking magnate ends^, by committing suicide. The shock is too much for the one-time cashier, who hae repented of his hard-heartedne<ss. and he is found dead in his office. A love romance is cleverly interwoven in the drama, which k one of the most powerful productions of the day. The supporting films are entertaining, interesting and educative and include "Russian Naval Manoe- ; uvres" (topical), "In a Garden" (Edison drama), "Two Souls with but a Single Thought" (Vitagraph comedy), "Among Fishes in a Salt Water Aquarium" (Pathe educational), "A -Wife Wanted" (Keystone comio), "Gaumont Graphic" (topical), "The Hen with the Golden Eggs" (Pathe fairy tale). The entire programme is one of exceptional brightness, and should be witnessed by everyone who enjoys a high-class picture entertainment. I