AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 2 November 1915, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

PEOPLE'S POPULAR PICTURES. The Itist production of tin; •v.mdcrful photo pl;\y, "Damon and Pythias," was given at. flic To»vn Hall last uk-glit. ''Damon and Pythias'' lias just completed its third consecutive week at. ,the Melbouino Auditorium, the original season (J' one week- having; been extended owing to its enthusiastic reception hy tin' Melbourne public. The play shows the ol't-rcpeated struggle between love and honour, for Pythias receives on his wedding day an urgent. call for help from his friend of years' standing, Damnn, the 10sponso to which admits of not a. moment's delay. To leave* his bride in the iirst Hush of their happiness seems impossible, but Pythias refuses to sacrifice his honour to liis love, even when this course of action leads him to the facing of an ignominious death. The well-known vto.-y of these two friends, with its thrilling episodes, lends itself admirably to photo play art. Last night's production was enthusiastically receive! by a huge audience, and the expressions of apprecia i i >:i wore lolht and frequent. There are ton maav details io attempt, -to enter into a description, but one item whieii caught: the eye was a chariot rate run by f 1,'ore,agh bred Arabian horses drawing genuine (irecian chariots. The camera has recorded it in nil its dash and danger and reveals it vividly. The screening will In* iepeated to-nighti

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES.

Another large ;»ml ien c-c* witness'.! the screening of the. attractive .u-o----gramnie ah the Electric Theatre hist evening. The ''Hotter Man" was again received with rounds of applause. "The Wishing Ring/' a World Film Corporation picture, mms also well received. The pichure has been secured at sonic expense, i'd the money was worth it, as ilie film J ins a certain charm which quite captivated the large house last night. 'l'lie story concerns the escapades of an Earl's son, who, because of his mischievous misdeeds, pels himself expelled from college. The youth eonlides his troubles to his godfather, who is about to depart on a jojurney. The godfather, his gardener having left him, places tluyouth i)i the position with strict injunctions to catch a thief who regularly steals the roses. The highborn gardener swears to do so, and keeps a sharp look-out accordingly. In due time ho discovers in the act the {lower thief, who turns out to be the parson's daughter, played by Miss Vivian Martin, the scco:.id Mary Piekford. As a matter ol course the two yoking people fall in love, the girl however being in total ignorance of the real identity of ■ v lover, whom she. imagines to be < nly a humble gardener. The godfather is about to return, and writes his ''gardener" to invite the nobility of his neighbourhood to a garden party in honor of his return. The youth also issues an invitation to the gi''l, who, disappointed, has to decline on account of not having a decent dress to appear in st'icli good company. Idealising the. trouble her lover buys iter the best dress in the place and surreptitiously places it in her bedroom with a note inscribed, ''From the Wishing Eing." And then the story lakes a more exciting turn, for the Earl discovers his win's whereabouts. "What happens would bo spoilt in the telling, but the nding of the story leaves one thoroughly contented with the final happiness of the two yo,ung people, ' «.i well satisfied with the witnessing of a type of picture screened altogether too rarely. The supporting pictures are un to Ihe standard