ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 187, 17 April 1915, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

TQWtt HACt PICTURES* •:• ■..'::: •'. TO-NIGHT,•• - ■ Count fit Mcnte Christo” will b© screened. for.., the first tune to-night- 1 It is classed as a stupendous prodac- j tjen, full of thrilling incidents, a Du j mas masterpiece presented by a master hand. Edmund Dantes,. mate of the Pharaon, is‘ entrusted by his dying captain with a letter for the exiled Napoloon. Tb® Emperor hands Dantes an answer to the .letter, to h* dellyer©d to Notrtter, of the Benapartiets Committee, which the mate leaves on bis ship i Mor.eil owner of the Pharaon, makej Baste© captain of the boat,, to th« mortification of Danglars, a seaman who plana revenge with Fernand do Catalan, a disappointed .lover erf Mercedes, the betrothed of Dantes. Dantes is arrested whilst he is holding the wedding-feast of his marriage to Mercedes and-- to silences Ms tongue h« lg imprisoned in the Chateau D’if. During Dantes’ imprisonment, Mercedes, believing him dead, agrees te maitry \FVrnandj ito ‘provide for .hfar child Albert. Meanwhile Dantes, after twenty-two years of toll, cuts a tunnel through the rocks of big prison wall and reaches the cell of Abbe Faria, a fellow-prisoner. The Abbe on dying, gives Dantes a letter from Cardinal Shade, revealing the whereabouts of buried treasures on the Isle of Monte C-rletO,

lyjß PETER DAWSON TOWN HALL, TAJHAPS To sit at home and 1 e Q joy through the medium of the gramophone singing of th e gifted‘English: baritone, Mr Peter Dawson, is the happy lot of thousands throuihout the Envilsh-epeaking world but to few people indeed outside the British Tslejg ha« the great opportunity been offered of heading the singer in the zenith of hie triumphant career

Speaking of Mr Dawson-’b recent visit to Auckland the Ney Zealand “Herald” says: “By reasons of his popular yet far reaching vocal interpretations Mr Dawson scored an immediate and permanent success. In addition to possessing a wel] producel finely balanced and flexible voice of great range there, are , certain /undeniable' qualities about Mr-./Dawsonis- readings*whfch' : place him; in -a class distinct from many contemporary platform favourites Not only is hi B clear diction and fine' phrasing ,of supreme /excellence,' and his versatility of style rare/indeed, biit such is tb e ' personality of the singer that a pleasant intimacy exists between himself and his auditors ere the first half dozen bars have been sung. As regards breath control, but few people attain such perfection it is not surprising to learn that Mr Dawson has actually sustained a single' note for nearly a minute. Such qualification enables a singer to perform prodigies a s regards phrasing of long sentences yet in the case of Mr Dawson the accomplishment is never allowed to suggest exaggeration or vulgarity. . Mr Dawson will he in the Town Hail, Tab hape, on Monday evening next.