ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4410, 4 February 1930, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TOWN HALL.

The fury of a woman scorned usually brings dire results, but when a jealous man of wealth and power is jilted, tlie danger signal goes up and stays there. That is one of the dramatic situations in “Loves of an Actress,” Pola Negri s latest Paramount production at the Town Hall on Wednesday. Dr. Durand e, powerful Parisian publisher, learning' that Rachel, French tragedienne, has thrown off his love to replace it with that of. an unsophisticated youth, rises in jealous rage and threatens the actress until ruin through the publication of certain of her love letters for the amusement of the world. 'This menace leaves Rachel in a squandary. She is between two fires. If she relinquishes her claim on the youth, the real love of her life will vanish, and if she, gives up the attentions of the publisher, she will never be accepted again by the scandalized public. How the tragediene overcomes the obstacle forms the basis of the story. The first episode of an exciting chapter play “Trail of the Tiger,” will also be screened Wednesday. This is a storv with a plot weaved in and out of a big' circus. With “Lost in a Pullman,” (comedy) and News. Usual prices. Literally thousands have read the Sir Hall Online novel, “The Bondman,” and these readers, will now have an opportunity of seeing all the well-known characters of this thrilling adventure romance in the film coming to the Town Hall on Saturday.

WESTMINSTER GLEE SINGERS.

NOVEL AND BEAUTIFUL ENTERTAINMENT.

One great and important feature of the Westminster Glee Singers, who are to appear in the Town Hall Foxton, on Tuesday next, at 8 p.m., is the highly attractive manner in which Iheir entertainment is presented. Instead of the formal concert platform, they employ beautiful stage settings, with many novel lighting effects, this being the first time that a combination of colour and sound has boon utilised in this manner. _ There is a delightful intimacy about their performances to which concert-goers hn,ve not hitherto been accustomed, and whilst their musical standard is of the very highest, they do not disdainMhe lighter side. There is nothing more fascinating in tho whole range of music than the human voice, and when this is utilised without instrumental accompaniment, one gets the very perfection of musical beauty. The Westminster Glee Singers specialise in this most attractive form of art; they sing t he whole of their programmes from memory: their repertoire consists of over 150 examples of part music, ranging from the simple part-song to the madrigal and glee, with occasional anthems and Christmas carols, in addition to a most interestiug series of solos with an accompaniment of voices. Specially are they noted for the very perfection of ensemble and their soloists, both hoys and men, rank with the finest that Great Britain can produce. It took'Mr. EdWard Branscombe, organiser and director of this Empire tour, many months in England to arrange for leave of absence for members of the company. Only one concert can be given in Foxton, the box plan for which is at Heath’s.

‘BROADWAY MELODY.”

A .STAR'S IMPRESSIONS ON

SEEING FILM

Bessie Love believes that she has experienced the biggest thrill of her lile. It was at the premiere opening out in Hollywood of “The Broadway Melody,” Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer’s first all-talking production, a brilliant dramatic sensation which opened at the De Luxe Theatre, Levin yesterday, will be shown again to-night and to-morrow night with matinees each afternoon, twhen the first-night audience broke into a wild ovation after Bessie’s dramatic triumph in the dressing room scene. “I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time,” the little MetroGold wy 11-May er player said. “I was bewildered by the unexpected outburst and trembled all over for hours afterwards. There was no sleep for me that night!” .Featured with Miss Love in the leading roles are Charles King, New York musical comedy star, and Anita Page. The story, an original . for the screen written by Edmund Goulding, tells the inside story of the lives of show people, the drama of their romances, tragedies, comedies, and little humours, it makes an absorbing, gripping entertainment. The most brilliant sequence in tlie picture reproduces a Broadway musical comedy revue. A chorus of sixty professional dancers appear in this scene. Its song numbers, specially written by Arthur Freed, who wrote the lyrics and Nacio Herb Brown, who composed the music, are already numbered among the season’s musical hits.