ENTERTAINMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 331, 25 January 1911, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

j JOCK WILLIS COMPANY

I The Caledonians, bonded by Jock i Willis, appear at the Town Hall to- ! morrow evening. Since last here tho i company has neon re-organised and | with few exception?, all new artists j will appear. The company has been ! aUraetntg larg'i audiences in the i north for the last three weeks, and 1 all patrons of the genial "Jock" i will be amply repaid by extending their patronage, to him to-morrow ' evening. There is no need to enlarge on the merits of the company, if all the good things said about ■ them are true, according to Auckiani paper-i, and a good evening's i enjoyment should bo the result of the company's preformance in the Town Hall, commencing at S o'clock. ! BARTON BROS.' CIRCUS. i Already the youth of Te Kuiti are | beginning to experience that thrill of : excitement which is inseparable from ! the visit of a circus, and to-day will ; be the longest day in the New Year calendar up to date. Their anticipa--1 tions. however, will be realised to- ; morrow evening, when Barton Bros', huge circus, buck-jumping and vaudei vii'le combination will appear in Te Kuiti. The huge show is comprised of 40 star artists, GO ponies, horses and mules, and the champion highjumping dogs of the world. The Australian wiid man, Mulga Albert, will give exhibitions of buck-jumping on the notorious outlaw, "Sandfly," and the management offers prizes up to £SO to anyone who can sit "The Bride of the Gulf," a horse that has never failed to unseat his rider. Another items of enthralling interest will be the Grand Liverpool Steeplechase by local riders. The same performance is given in the country as in the cities, and no doubt a good house will await the management.

EMPIRE LIVING PICTURES. The Empire Bictures shown at the Town Hall on Monday night fully equalled, if they did not excel, the excellent scries we have now become accustomed to expect from the company. Perhaps "New York of Today" was the most instructive picture shown, and to see our American cousins in their work and play was to realise what a mighty nation we have at our door. Then "The Rhine from Cologne to Bingeu," in colour was shown, and a wonderful moving panorama it proved. The Fenimore Cooper dramatised story, too, was an intensely vivid realisation of that writer's stirring romances. There were numerous other good iiims shown, but sufficient has been said to indicate that there is no failing off in tire high standard of quality laid down by the management. The company's programme for next Monday rights performance is de tailed in our advertising columns and a perusal of the same will show that theatre-goers are being catered for on a very lavish scale.

KELLY GANG PICTURE DRAMA

The hero worship of outlaws has been a curious phase of human nature in all ages, and to its influence we owe some of the Lest stories, dramas, poems, and pictures, achieved by our countrymen. What a spell of romancelingers round the nanus of Robin Hood, Claude Duval, and the whole brave company of knights of the road. And in naked truth what ruflians most of them well-deserving no more law than the man-eating tiger. A share of pseudo this romance sheds a softer Imht than the white light cf truth upon the exploits of the desperadoes who terrorised a huge countryside for month;!, and exacted a bloody tribute before the final "shoot-up" at the Glonrowan Hotel. McMahon's pictorial version of the doings oJ the Kelly Gang, which John Fuller and Sons and the ' Tayior-Carrington management will present at the Town Hall en Tuesday next has drawn enormous houses in all parts of Australia and New Zealand, and press and public alike, have been unanimous in the verdict that this version is far ahead of any previous presentation of the story, pictorial or otherwise. The whole of the leading events in the lives of the gang from the insult to Kate Kelly by a constable to the capture of Ned Kelly, are most graphically and vividly depicted. Despite the facts that the rights for exhibiting this picture-drama are very heavy, extremely low prices will prevail, with ladies' and children's concessions.