AMUSEMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 389, 23 August 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

THE WANDERERS COMEDY COSTUME CO.

The Te Kuiti public will isoi 1 with delight the announcement that we are to have a return visit on Friday next, the 25th inst., of that talented and popular combination, the Wanderers Musical Comedy Costume Company. The company made such a favourable impression on the occasion of their last visit and became such great favourites with the public, that a crowded house is assured. Seats can now be reserved at McColl's, tobacconist. An entirely new programme to that last presented here will be submitted, and it will include high class vocalisation, instrumentalism, humourous songs, sketches, quartettes, duets, trios, chorus and mandoline and many delightful musical novelties, entirely new to local audiences. All I the old favourites will re-appear in I addition to several new artists. The personel of the company is a strong i one. It includes the eminent London monologue entertainer Mr A. J. Black whose renditions of Bracken's "The Auctioneer" "Only a Dog" "Oh Memory" "The Same Old Lie" etc. has stamped him as one of the finest monologue entertainers yet heard in the Dominion. In Mr John Ryan, late of the Auckland Lyric Quartette, the ' company possesses one of the finest ' bassos yet heard in New Zealand while the comedian of the company Mr Leslie Holmes has created a lurore everywhere. The other members of the company include Miss Ruby Guest instrumentalist and soubrette; Miss Beatrice Mercer contralto; Miss Lilian Irvine soprano; Miss Everill Baggie soubrette and dainty dancer; MrLeith Harvey a tenor; Mr George Wins tan ley male soprano; Mr Herbert Brahms musical director. A delightful entertainment wiil be presented ; music jjft'mirth and merriment being excellently blended.

EMPIRE PICTURE COMPANY

The exhibition given at the Te Kuiti Hall on Monday evening last was as usual a most enjoyable ona, the pictures shown being clear and good. On Monday next a monster programme is announced,included in which will be the greatest temperance mora! play "Ten Nights in a Bar Room" which, it is claimed, has done more good in the cause of temperance than all the platform lectures ever delivered. The film is a long one —some 1000 feet — and it has drawn crowded houses in the big centres, of all shades and denominations of people, and the papers are very loud in their praise of it. All, whether interested in temperance work or not, should take this opportunity of witnessing this intensely human play on Monday night. Besides this great picture, the programme includes such items as "Fathe's Gazette," full of topical interest, two beautiful scenics, "Swans," and "Excursions into Brittany," two star comedies, "A Summer Tragedy," and "Dr Cupid," two interesting dramas "The Pony Express" and "A Flash of Light" and three roaring comics "Foolshead —Telegraph Boy," "Impudence Punished" and "Drowsy Dick's Dream."