ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4412, 8 February 1930, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TOWN HALL. Perhaps one of the most dramatic incidents in the special, “The Bondman/’ at the Town Hall tonight, is the meeting of the two half-brothers, Jason and Michael. When Michael lands in the Isle of Man, and leaps from the rowing boat which has brought him ashore, he brushes against the man with whom he has been sent to seek reconciliation for the sins of his lather. Stooping down, Michael retrieves the dagger which has fallen from the hands of Jason and returns it to his unknown half-bro-ther, not knowing that it is the dagger on which Jason had sworn to liis dying mother, that, he would seek revenue on his father for his brutal desertion of his wife. Norman Kerry plavs Jason, whilst Donald MdCardlc, who was last seen in “A Light Woman,” portrays the role of Michael. The attractive English screen “find,” Frances Cuvier, plays Greeha with all the suggestion of a true Halt Caine heroine. W/ifli “Don’t Tell Dad” (a Mack Sennett comedy), and an English News. Usual prices.

•Sustained interest is the first essential of a successful screen drama. “The One Woman Idea,’’ Fox Film at the Town Hall on Monday, has that, and more. It tells a. story of absorbing interest and the action is highly dramatic from begining to end. “The One Woman Idea.” has to do with a, Persian Prince who falls in love with the wife of a fellow passenger on a steamship hound from. London to Port- Said. But, as the prince announces upon discovering that she is married, “I am a Mohammedan

cm! n Mohammedan never (ouches 1 lit; property of nnother,” he finds himself with a problem on his hands. Rod La Rocque, who portrays the prince, is the outstanding player. His work is brilliant, but he finds plenty of competition from more than one member of the splendid cast which enacts supporting roles. Co-featured with La Roeque is Marcclino Day, a most charming leading woman, who has a dual role—the wife with whom the prince falls in love -and a half caste dancing girl, in his harem. She handles both parts extremely well. Usual prices.

WESTMINISTER, GLEE SINGERiS.

COMING TO FOXTON NEXT.’ TUESDAY.

Ed ward Branscombe’s famous English Company, the Westminster Glee Singers, will appear in the Town Hall, Foxton, on Tuesday ■next. The Company is made up of seven of England’s best solo singers from such historic choirs as those of Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedra], St. George’s Windsor, Worcester Cathedral, etc., with six remarkable solo boy sopranos who have all held important positions in London celebrated choirs. They specialise in unaccompanied part-singing, embracing a wonderful series of National Airs, Anthems, Carols, Irish folksongs, Scottish melodies and Welsh Airs additional to a great variety of lighter music such as vocal dan ccs, sailors shanties, comedy quartettes, plantation songs and song scenas. One of the features of most popular interest is the singing of the boys, a type of work which is found to perfection in Great Britain, and which has aroused the greatest enthusiasm in all the many parts of the world where the Glee Singers have appeared. It should be emphasised that this unique body of singers has been specially organised to revive interest in the national music of the Motherland, the entertainment bearing the title “Songs of our Forefathers” which, with both sacred and secular music has been specifically designed to bring into prominence all that is best in British minstrelsy presented in delightfully artistic stage settings which make the entertainment popular and far removed from the orthodox concert; the Westminster Glee Singers programmes appeal to all, they are never dull and their brightness and beauty in vocal art are their charm. The box plan is at Heath’s.