AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 19 January 1917, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

THE COSY THEATRE.

A good house greeted the change programme which opened last niglic. 'The .Keystone "A -Modern Enoch Arden," proved a real merry maker and was much appreciated but tho feature of the programme was the World Film production "Love's Crucible." This picture concerns itself with the good and evil inHuencvs which must -play a part in every woman's, life; be she good or bad. Myra Dymsley, a beautiful young artist, becomes enmeshed in the nets uf a sensuous'intrigue laid for her by Robert Dawton, a young NewYork libertine posing as ivn artist. Forgetting 'Stephen Wright, whom <,he loft -behind in- the small New Jingland town of her birth, and who truly loves her,. iMyra -gives herself to Lawtoii,.carried away by his fascination. She discovers too late that i she has been his toy. Cast aside I amd crushed and-broken, she pays [the price., 'By a strange turn nf | circumstance, it- is Frances, the «ister of her seducer, who rescues her from the fate to Hvhich her desperation has caused her to turn. Conspirators against -Myra strive to wrench her from the protection of Frances Lawton. They almost succeed in their purpose when iSteplnn Wright proves to be the- "God out of the machine." The scone in which Stephen rescues Myra and Frances i« but the culmination of a- series of terrific climaxes which mark "Love's Crucible" from the first scene to the last. In point of powerful drama, realistic' staging, excellent acting and superb photography, "Love's Crucible" has never been excelled as ia pbntrxlrama dealing with modern" conditions. This programme will he repeated this evenins.

th6mpson-?ayne psctures

Crowds were again turned a-way. last night at the Electric Theatre, when the second screen ng of the "Two Orphans" was shown. This picture is one of the Fox masterpieces and was produced at enormous expense. "The' Price She Paid," featuring Mary ißolaud, was well received and deals with the bitter disillusionmoat of a- woman who envies the seeminglv more fortunate h<t of her wealthy friends, ilhe heroine M the story becomes discontented with her own simple home life an'd seeks happiness and the false-gaye-ties of the world in which her nchfr acquaintances, live. The second episode of "Peg of the Ring," was also received with rounds of applause. Batrons .are .advised *u>iti to. i"ii' ;: these series as they are well worth -tfoUowfng. To-morrow the usual matinee will be held in the afternoon when Charlie' Chaplin will be shown as well as the serial Terence O'Rorko and Peg of the Ring, and the star drama "Jim, Just Jim."