ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2048, 30 October 1919, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE TE KOA SOLDIER ENTER -

TAINERS

After a phenomenally successful season in Auckland, the Te Koa Soldier Entertainers, constituted by returned soldiers, will play at the Town Hall on Tuesday next* The party is composed of vocalists and elocutionists, together with light comedians, claiming a standard equal, if not above, that of any one concert party that has yet played in the Dominion. The company’s season in Auckland was marked xvith intense enthusiasm, the audience from night to night clamouring for return numbers. Mr Owen Pritchard, the colnedian of the party, is, according to Auckland critics, in his class of work unapproachable "as regards humour, while at the same time he is said to possess the happy faculty of keeping his audience in smiles from the moment the curtain is drawn to its ringing-down. A tenor of note, and one enjoying allround popularity, is Mr Victor Elliott, whose tenor voice is excellently suited to his choice .i}f items. Air Elliott is well known throughout Australia on the concert platform, and has evidently lost little of his vocalism, despite strenuous years of active sendee. The only lady in. the company is Miss Winifred Birch, a comedienne whose rare fund of humour, combined with daintiness and a sweet voice, have made her a favourite everywhere. Also in the Te Kous are Mr Wally Edwards, who plays the part of a soubrette with surprising finish and colour; Air Les Walton, whose work is mainly confined to recitative matter, and who is esteemed in his class as a front-rank artist; and Air Billy Alardle, whose efforts as accompanist is slated to be equal to that of any concert pianist who has yet visited the Dominion. The box plan is at Heath's.

KOVAL PICTURES, By special request, flic great Chaplin tilin, ‘LA Dug’s Life,” will be repeated at Hie Royal to-night. In addition to this there will also--.be screened the comedy-drama, “The Winning of Beatrice,” an attractive play featuring May Allison and Hale Hamilton. It is a vivid and sparkling story of the business triumph of a. debutante, showing the novel outcome of a society Girl’s venture into commercial life. For to-morrow (Brainy) night, (lie Triangle feature, “Untamed,” will he screened. The story, briefly, is: Jim Jason enters into a partnership with Don Felipe Arrello to run ,a ranch. An odd feature of the partnership is a (danse that gives to the

survivor the full ownership of the ranch in event of the death of the other partner. Jim puls the ranch on a paying basis, and Arrello starts in to get the ranch for his own. He not only seeks Jim’s life, but he poisons the mind of the woman Jim loves, but in the end one of Arrcllo’s past love affairs brings Justice to the recreant Don, and the clause hy which he planned to profit now works in Jim s favour.

LOUISE MACK TO-NIGHT. To-night, at the Town Hall, the Fox ton public will be afforded an opportunity of becoming acquainted with Louise Alack, the incomparable, thcNvorkl-famed author and poet. The greatest of all war correspondents. The woman who moves great audiences to tears and laughter. Louise Mack will tell how she met Edith ('aveil, also her experiences of five days as a prisoner ol war, a.nd what she saw inside (he German lines. She brings with her Cherry Kearton’s moving war pictures and over 100 slides.