AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1923, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

Til It .MAT I? I MONT A L WEB” TO-NIGHT.

Featuring Alice Calhoun in an emotional role ‘'The .Matrimonial Web.” is hilled as the hie feature at the Princess Theatre to-night. “The Matrimonial Web" is a. dramatic story of the adventures of a young girl who seeks to capture a hand of smugglers and .save t'other father his position as chief revenue officer. The girl runs into many strange adventures. She proves herself a star ot no mean ability and shows tlmt she is not confined to any one type of emotion. The role in “The .Matrimonial Web” gives her a wide I'unge of character delineations. She appears first as an unsophisticated country girl. Later she appears as u society woman and at another point aa girl of the underworld. The story is a drama of gripping intensity that will please all who see it. A line supporting series will also he shown to-night, ineluding Topical Budget. scenic, interest. industrial and comedy. On Thursday Katherine .MacDonald in “Her Social Value" will he .screened, ll remained tor Katherine .MacDonald, (he American beauty of the screen, to make a heroine cut of a shopgirl. She has done it in "Her Social Value,"’ an intensely interesting offering, which will he shown as a First National attraction at the Princess Theatre on Thursday. The heroine of "Her Social Value’* sells gloves in a large department store. Through a mistake she is charged with stealing the purse of n

customer, hut is saved from disgrace hy a young men who finds the article and clears her of suspicion. Little Dan Cupid has been present at the meeting, however, and although the stranger proves to bo a member of the social set. lie marries .Marion. Thrilling complications ensue. Marion's dreams of happiness are shattered hy fate. Did iusi when the future leaks darkest, the clouds break and she finds the peace and joy she is seeking in a mining town in the far West. "Her Social Value’’ i- one of the ln-st pictures Miss

MacDonald has produced to dale, ami combine* all the elements of peil-C entertain incut.

MISS ROSIN A RICKMAN. NEW /.!■:A LAND’S OI'EEX OF SONG. 'io-iiioraiu morning the box plans will he opened at Miss Mclntosh'c o', i feel ionc IV for the concert to he given in the Princess Theatre hy .Miss Kotina i’.uckmnii on .Saturday next. In > : v the phenomena! sucres, of Alt-'-Ru.-knian’ ."Cii.-on elsewhere. the mana .’■cment iiiiticipat' - heavy hooking. A decade ago Miss ttiickinau went to Kngiand to seek lame in the musical c■'liter ei tiic Old World. To-day she returns to her homeland covered with honour and glory, acclaimed anil recognised as the foremost, soprano in Enghmd. Tile Loudon Daily Mail say.-: “One of the surpr- of the Beech,am Opera was Mi-s Kosina Burkinan, r lii 11- 1 Town prime donna of the first degree. All. the truly lovely voice, rich and easy and oxeptisite in all its way-. Jt is a voice that at moments recalls Destinn's, of which ii is every hit the jeer.” It may safely be nnticip: that Hokitika miisic-tovei's mil not he behindhand in welcoming tin Dnmin•ion’s most distinguished t’a lighter, whom Dame Nellie Alelha ha- fitly called “New Zealand’s (.tiieen cd Song.’’ A feature 1 of .Miss Burkinan's piograuinie•c ill he the duets with her husband. Mr

.Maurice D’Oisly, part icuhirly the operatic duets sung in English, which have endeared them both to London audiences. One of their most sueeessfnl numbers is the dramatic duet from the fourth Act of Gout-nod's “Romeo and Juliet." in which they creaUi the operatic atmosphere in a manner altogether unusual on the concert platt'nrni. Mr D’Oisly. who i.s making In's first visit to New Zealand, is one ot England’s foremost tenors. At Coveut Garden and other (ira.nd Opera Ifoiischc has played the leading tenor roles in all classes of opera, with outstanding success, and on the conn i t platform he is one the most popular .singers of the day. In addition to the famous singers tlie party includes Alias Adelina Leon, a ’cellist of particular brilliance, whose playing is much in favour with London audiences, and Mr i’ercy Kalin, the well-known composer and pianist, who will he remembered as accompanist with Aliselm Elman a lew years ago.