AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 February 1914, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

TOWN HALL PiGTUREt. "FAITHFUL TO THE END." The big programme of specials presented at tho Town Hall on Wednesday night had a great reception by tho largo audience present. Each film was enthusiastically received, while the leading feature "Faithful to the End" had a remarkable reception. It is rarely that an audience becomes so enraptured by a picture play as was tho case at the Town Hall. "Faithful to the End" is a magnificent production by tho A.B. Coy., and excels anything yet presented by this company. Tho story of a woman who loves to tho end, no temptation nor flattery turning her from her loyal path, is told in a fascinating manner. "My Lady of Idleness" ia an attractive and amusing item, which at once places one in the best of humour, depicting as it does, scenes which one meets in real life. The supporting films embrace industrial, dramatic and educational features which complete a programme of very high excellence, and one that should bo seen by all. This higJiclasa entertainment will bo submitted for tho last time to-night, and on Saturday afternoon and evering another of the company's big specials will bo shown.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES. "THE QUEEN'S JEWEL." Tho excellent bill-of-fare being presented at tho T.P. Electric Theatre is drawing large audiences, everyone s taste being suited by a splendid variety .of subjects. Special mention may bo mad© of tho Rex Company s latest production, "lire Rosary," dramatised from that beautiful subject. It may bo said that no other cinematograph production has yet achieved tho Fiuccess and admiration of the general public-this soul-stirring work has. The picture in itself is indeed a novelty in the way it is presented, each scene being framed with a string of Rosary beads, with.the Cross suspended. Itala. Company is seen at its best in a sensational and awe-inspiring 4000-ft melodrama, "Tho Queen's Jewel." This picture lends itself to many rapid and exciting scenes, thrilling the spectator with amazement, such events aa tho aeroplane flight, the race 'twixt motor and train, the sensational leap from tho flying express, tho escape from lofty heights, and the high ivy-cov-ered tower, the escape from lotty house-tops, and other .such exploits are seldom seen in any one film. llie supporting bill is equally good the long comedies being excruciatingly funny. ' "Pimple's Ivanhoe" is a skit on tho great novelist Scott's famous work. The Eclair Journal is as newsy and as popular aa over. As to-night will be the last time this stupendous series will bo screened, patrons wishing to see "The Rosary" should not miss this final opportunity. A special matinee programme will bo sfown at 2.30 to-morrow, the evening cmvngc 'including the Celio production. Iho Two Actresses."

WITHIN THE LAW. Next Monday evening, J. 0. Williamson, Ltd., will stage at 'be Town Hall, for the first time m Aiasteiton, Bayard Beiller's impressive play "Within the Law." No play m recent years has held such a steadily sustained interest as this mtonse drama of the New York under wo la. From the moment tbo curtain rises until its final fall it takea a firm grip, upon the senses, holding .the neiyes taut like a fiddle string, on which the etronjr situations a forceful realism of the acting strike a note of .vibrant intensity. As Mary Turner, ijeacting of Mia* Muriel Starr is said to be a fine example of the power that can bo obtained by using the American methods of suppressed emotional intensity, which imbues the character with a tremendous degree of strength that makes itself unmistakably felt across the footlights Miss Starr w said to sketch with a true hand air tlv sal ; ont features of a complex p*yfhr;lp«Hcnl st-mly, never once descend- ;•;,, <-,o unnatural methods to gam her - .f.V'ts and carries the sympathies ot "-ryoTio with her unfailingly to the end. The box -plans are now open at the Dresden.