ENTERTAINMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 170, 23 March 1915, Page 1

ENTERTAINMENTS

PROFESSOR WRAGGE’S LECTURE. j Frc-fes-cr Clc-nieut Wraago, the eminent AusaalLtii astrc nciner, gave a:i .utenEsly interesting lecture In the ! Three Siam Theatre last night, to a very gcccl and attentive audience. The loctura was en.l’ely scientific, except the language, and in this respect Mr V.Tagge .-showed an cbvi c-us endeavour to v.t?e such terms that e.orycne could understand. Tire in-in purpose of the lecture was to shew hew the we it her, cr memcrc-logio.-.l conditions could ha foretold, not only •from day to day and week by week, but how the Reasons could bo'fora;.ld ter years it: ad vanes. Tha iectiFe war, Irofdiciy illuvtralcd throughout with ti e most correct and beautiful photographs of the heavens it is possible to get, being the best products cf the most noted astronomical observatories in the world. The lecturer did not claim absolute correctness ft<r his forecasts of seasons years in advance, but ho showed that from 1901 to the present they had proved correct, and he claimed tha: from this cu they would ba i dually a : i ..liable. The ht up to 19CO were thrown cn the screen, and if they are worthy of any reliance 1113 southern hemisphere is just cn the commencement of -five years of gcod seasons. Mr Wragge pointed cut that these forecasts were made for Australia, but owing to New Zealand’s insularity they only applied here in a modified form, bad droughts would not be so severe here, and extremely good seasons might not prove so beneficial. Tito lecture I- was listened to with raid at lon tic 11. and these who remained ben ml to see (he wonders c? radium were interested and mystified. A light that can shine through weed and metal is something the audience was net quite accustomed to. “THE GLAD EYE.” "If to laugh is to grow fat,” said the Sydney “Daily Telegraph,” “these inclined to obesity should stay away from ‘The Glad Eye. 1 ” The motto cf "The Glad Eye” management is to dispel gloom and dispense gaiety. For the visit to Taihapo cf “The Glad Eye” at the Town Hall, Hr Beaumont Smith i s responsible. At present playing to crowded houses in Auckland “The Glad Eye” is repeating a loud series of successes which began with a fifteen months’ run in London, when Miss Ethel Dane, who will visit with the Ccmpanyp created the principal roles. Specially engaged for the Australasian tour are Messrs T. H. Slrelford 1 and H. I. Ford, who play inestimable amazing companion parts, Miss Alise Hamilton, Mr Frank Bradley, Miss Sinna St. Clair, Mr Claud Vernon, Miss CU ice Hardwick and other clever artists. The box plan is now open at Finch’s Bazaar.