"CARMEN” TO-NIGHT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 468, 25 September 1928, Page 17

"CARMEN” TO-NIGHT

COLOURFUL OPERA Bizet’s “Carmen,” which will be played this evening l by the FullerGonsalez Company, is a colourful and very popular opera. It is the story of -Carmen, the dark-eyed gipsy of Seville. Carmen has quarrelled with anfcther girl and has stabbed her, and the soldier Don Jose is forced to arrest her. Carmen beguiles him with her taunting glances, and he lets her escape. For this he is arrested and sent to prison. When Don Jose is released he encounters his superior officer with Carmen, and in a quarrel draws his sword against him. The severe punishment against him for this offence makes him a less unwilling deserter, and he no longer resists the gipsy girl’s appeal to fly with her to the mountains and join the smugglers’ band. In the mountains Carmen begins to tire of Don Jose, and becomes attracted to the bull-fighter. Eseamillo Jealous glances flash, knives are drawn, and in a wild struggle the bullfighter’s knifo is broken. Nothing daunted, he walks away singing of his love for Carmen. The last act 'again takes place in Seville. Eseamillo is the hero of the hour. Carmen is intercepted by Don Jose as she is about to enter the arena to go to the bull-fighter. When she declares her love for the triumphant bull-fighter he whips out his knife. When Eseamillo comes for her, Carmen is dead. In the cast will be Nina Algozino, Maria Henkina, Arturo Tamburini, Franco Izal, Matilda Pfrimmer, Anita Mazza, Antonio Alfieri, C. Gislon and A- Gilardi Between finishing scenes of “The Street Angel,” directed by Frank Borzage, and playing a featured role in “The Red Dance,” a Raoul Walsh production, both from the Fox Ex-

change, Charles Farrell may be written about as the busiest young star in Hollywood at the moment.