AMUSEMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 706, 23 September 1914, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

• EMfRESS PICTURES. To assist the benefit given in the Town Hall in aid of the Huntly miners, the management do not show pictares to-night. To-morrow night a complete change of programme will be shown which will include two star pictures; a drama in two raels by the Lubin Co., entitled "A Million m Jewals"; also a fine film of the late Wells v. Carpentier fight, the latest Gaumont Graphic, together with scenic, edueaiional and comedy subjects will assist in making this programme equal to any that have been previously shown.

THE SMART SET. The above popalsr company is to appear at the People's Picture Palace on Tuesday next, under the direction of Mr Edward Branscombe. The Smart Sat have just finished a particularly successful s-ason at Hobart, and sines they last appeared in Te Kuiti have been taken over by the Branscombe management, who have add*d nes artists to the original cast rehabilitated the repertoire and present the organisation with every confidence that it will meet with the universal approbation of the people of this district. The Smart Set believe in that well-known axiom "Laugh and the world laughs with you," and their work is mainly composed of comedy in various forms—gams of gossamer lightness to numbers of rollicking humor. Solo items, concerted numbers, glees, ensembles follow one another in a How of buoyant spirits, hut at the same time the entertainment is inter'aced with more serious and philosophic items. Mr Walter George is Well remembered here as an exponent of rollicking humor and spontaneous fnn and will again join Miss Georgie Martin in those delightful duets and sketches whicn helped these two artists to gain euch undoubted popularity last year. Of the balanca of the company mention may be made of Mr Harry De Roback, -a comedian who enjoys a great vogue in Australia under the Branscombe regime, and whose patter songs are masterpieces of their kind, though never relying on double entendre to gain their effect. Mr Gavin Wood, comedian and basso.recently associated with the Red Dandies, Miss P. Battenbury.contraVto, Miss Gwen Evans, contralto, and Miss Lalla Knight are also appearing, and also Messrs Ernest Parkes baritone, Maurice Jones, and Mr Edgar Hulland. The box plan is at McColl's and she prices are 3s, 2a, and Is.