ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2050, 4 November 1919, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TE KOA SOLDIER ENTER-

TAINERS,

TO-NIGHT

To-night, at the Town Hall, the Te Koa Entertainers will make their first appearance here in an entertainment that has won unstinted praise from both Press and public everywhere. The male members of the company are all returned soldiers, and in the intervals between stunts gave many entertainments “behind the lines.” The company as now presented is, according to an exchange, “quite equal to any professional organisation of its class that has yet visited New Zealand. Only a jaundiced mind would refuse to smile at their pranks and eccentricities and be entertained by their songs and jokes, all warranted to be new and without the traditional whiskers. Each performer, in solo work, is more than merely good, and in the concerted numbers all work together most harmoniously. Truly it is a show suitable for war-weary people and just as highly appreciated here as it surely must have been by the diggers in France. Hearty appreciation wms almost continuous throughout Hie performance. The Te Koas are firmly established in popuuarity, and deservedly so. Mr Owen Pritchard, the chief wit, is irresistible. He made everyone laugh. He is a humourist who stands right in the front rank. His songs are good, and he always supplements the words with inimitable drollery and facial expression, and some clever ‘business' is introduced, but it is ahvays clean.” Space will not allow' of detailed mention of all the performers, suffice it to say that one and all are capable entertainers, the combined efforts resulting in an amazingly bright and breezy show, totally free from vulgarity.

The box plan is at Heath’s, where seats may be reserved. ROYAL PICTURES. The Metro feature, “To Hell with the Kaiser,’’ will bo the star item at the Royal to-morrow (Wednesday) and Thursday nights. This film features Olive Tell and Lawrence Grant. “To Hell with (he Kaiser” is the greatest arraignment of Prussia nism and the moral baseness of Ihe llohenzollerns and their kind ever math;. It is a magnificent comingliug of fact and imagination, showing how Wilhelm, (he monster of Europe, signs a pact, with Satan for the mastery of the world. This is followed by (lie wilful destruction of the treaty of Belgium, as a preliminary to the most ghastly crimes iho world has ever known.

An American girl, Alice Mnnroe, sets out to avenge the death of her sister, who has trustingly sought the sanctuary of a Belgian convent, and is responsible for the dramatic climax in which Ihe Kaiser meets the fate he so richly deserves. Brilliant and effective scenes complete the most amazing screen drama everpresented in connection with this all important theme.