AMUSEMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 599, 3 September 1913, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

EMPRESS PICTURES

The usual bi-weekiy change of programme at the Enipresi Theatre will ba screened this evening, the star picture being entitled "To Right the Wrong." This picture will be supported by the usual comic, scenic, educational and dramatic film?.

"THE NIGHT SIDE OF LONDON."

On Wednesday evening next at the Town Hall, Te Kuiti, George Marlow's new dramatic company will appear in the London and Australian dramatic success "The Night Side of London." This drama has achieved a remarkable success wherever produced, and the booking here indicates that great interest is being taken in the production of (he piece in this town. The dt'ama presents a series of thrilling pictures of London life, the temptations that beset a young girl in the Empire's metropolis, the machinations of the idle wealthy and the vivid contrasts between gaiety and poverty as so relastically portrayed with the street scene i:i London with the snow failing and tha interior of the Night Glub. with the richly dressed ladies, the immaculately attired gentlemen and the well groomed servants. The author from all account?, has evolved a story beset with tragedy, comedy, pathos, the whole blending into a delightful whole so that the audience at one time is strung up to a pitch of excitement and at another moment convulsed with laughter. POLITE VAUDEVILLE.

Mr V. M. Beebe's celebrated company of vaudeville minstrel stars will appear at the Town Hall, Te Kuiti, on Tuesday night, September 9th. The company consists of fifteen performers and is claimed to be the largest in point of numbers and general excellence of any similar organisation that ha 3 toured the Dominion in racent years. Mr Beebe has had many year's experience in conducting successful theatrical enterprises in America and Australia. The present company have been touring Australia and the Far East for tbe psst five years and has altely "made good" as the Americans say, in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch and the other large centres of the Dominion. Every artist in the company, which Mr Beebe will bring to Te Kuiti, possesses well established reputations, and comprise such well-known performers as: The Rollicking Rocleys, clever sketch artists, singers and dancers; Miss Rubu Raymond, charming American toe dancer; Miss Ella Conrad, a delightful "oprano vocalist; Mr Will White, a tenor singer of rag time and cocn song, and whom the management claims to be the undisputed champion eccentric dancer of the world; Mis? Eide Luder, dainty little serio and dancer; Mr John Sloan, a finished comedian who knows how to provoke laughter without descending to the lower level depths nf vulgarity; and several others. Thfi combination carry their own scenery, and elaborate stage properties, and the opening production of modern minstrel is saaid to be full of wholesome fun that refined people appreciate. Mr Eeebe caters only for those who appreciate a bright and breezy performance liberally punctuate with culture and cleverness, and stiongly advises anyone who expects to sea or hear anything suggestive or with a double meaning to stay away from his performances. One item on the programme which ia said to stand supreme, and ia well worth comingmany miles to see, is the English acrobatic Arteens, and their acrobatic dog, Jessie. The prices of admission are 3s, 2s, and Is.