AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1923, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

A SPECIAL BRITISH PICT HU TO-NIOHT.

.Alt's Alfred Sidgwick’s popular novel “The Kinsman” Conns tin basis for a highly eutcrtn ining picture of the same title at the I’rincoss Theatre tonight. Made by the English Hepworth studios, the featured players are Henry Edwards and Clirissie White, supported by an nnusally brilliant caste. The •story has many high lights of jocular entertainment, dealing as it does with the impersonation of a supposedly dead heir to a large fortune by a distant cousin, a typical cockney, whose likeness to the heir is remarkable, hove, romance and adventure havi their part in feature which has all the elements of popular entertainment. The production of “The Kinsman” is wellnigh perfect, and the picture can lay claim to being one of the best; English features turned out. The .supporting pictures to-night are a Topical Budget the late.-i Bathe Review. It'll ~t interest and a good comedy.

On Thursday the star attraction r- a hirst National Koatiire “The I cmd'.' Honour.'’ In this pietun the master touch of King Vidor is eciimt in ( very foot of him. The story is tee romance of a beautiful Southern gu'l. wonderfully portrayed by Florence Vidor. whose parents dim leaving the family impoverished. She struggles to put her brother through college, < idy to find he is a waster. Eventually after a. luetic career of vice and gambling lie is accused of murder, when an unexpected circumstance proves his innocence. Although there i.s tragedy in tile story, it is also filled with bee. romance and crowned with happiness, and contains a trenchant lesson to ; weak parents who neglect i<» csww ■ control over their children. ■ Vhiirubiv j produced there are many beauty spots; I in its five reels which never tail to ! grip the attention from first to las!. .MISS ROSIN'A BI'CKA! AN. i HOKITIKA CONCERT. Air E. •). Hravestoek annoiinetß that .Miss Rosina Burkinan, the world famous New Zealand soprano, after an ab- . seimc of more than ten years in England. will give a concert in tlio Princess Theatre. Hokitika, on Saturday. | February 3rd. at 5.30 p.m. in conjunction with her husband, Air Maurice VOisly. the eminent English operatic 1 1 nor. Miss Burkinan returns to her homeland covered with honour and glory, acclaimed and recogilist (1 as the feremost soprano in England to-day. Her triumphs have been won both on the Operatic stage and the Concert platform. As leading dramatic o , jiiaito with the Beeeliam Opera t omj pany. she was one of tlc< main sup- ‘ ports of that organisation when the Compauv fought and won its battle for

‘■>r-L place hi Hie estimaiioii ol the British opera-going public. Aliss Biiehman's work at the Covent Carden Opera lliju.se. and throughout England createil such a sensation in musical circles that she was invited to sing at i!a, I,a Koala House. Milan, a distinction that, no other English-speak-ing singer has ev:r gamed. Her popularity with tin English music-loving public became so great that her .services wore demanded fur musical events of all kinds throughout the country. Oratorio. festivals. ballad concerts, and symphony concerts everywhere were included in her engagement list until the name of Rosina Buck man has come to he placed with such worldfamed artists as Melba. Tetrazzini. Clara Butt, Kiciskr. and Heifetz. If proof were needed of the esteem in which sic• is In-Id hv the British imisieluving public .it would he lound in the ruin rkahle inrewell that witnessed Miss Burkinan's filial concert in the Royal Albert flail, when an audience of |t■'.!>;>') people gathered to wish her farewell prior to her departure for Xaw Zealand. Mr Maurice D’Oisly. who makes hi' lirst appearance in New Zealand at these concerts, is a tenor

with a splendid reputation gained in Opera and Concerts, and his career entitles him to a place in the foremost rank of sing, is. Supporting artists also include Miss Adelina I eon, a talented English cellist who is visiting New Zealand for ihe first time. and Mr Pc,rev Kahn the eminent piaiiistenmposer, who will be remembered as the accompanist with Mi.scba ..Elman. The box plans for the concert will be i opened at Miss Mclntosh's on Thursday I week. Feb. Ist.