AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 23 August 1918, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

KING'S THEATRE. The final screening of ' ' The Tar Heeled Warrior" will be given at the King's to-night. To-morrow night the highly sensa- < tional picture, "The Eussian Eevolu- . tion." will be shown. High enterprise < was shown by the Bio Company when ! • it obtained special permission to film ; the events of the Eussian Eevolution ] from Kercnsky himself. The camera- \ j man's task was no enviable one, as he , traversed the storm-tossed capital of ] Eussia, obtaining one scene after an- • other of the great rising. No vital - place, person or happening has been, missed, and one is transported, as one i watches the unfolding of the incidents, to Petrograd itself. Snamensky , Square where the first shot was fired i in, the revolution is one of the early i scenes, and then the fights between ' the armoured cars of the revolutionists and the police hidden in. the roofs . of the high buildings follow. The Czar's palace with its coat of arms covered with the red favours of the movement is shown, and the great Moscovsky and Alexandra Nevsky \ police stations are discovered, wrecked and smashed by the populace. Kerensky himself is shown addressing the huge convention which assembled after the first success. Most of the other Eussian notables who were prominent at the time are also shown. "Keystone" has now passed into the language as a current move for ,a fast moving spell of fun, and in "Oriental Love," will bo found one of the spiciest, raciest and swiftest of the bimeh. No. 9 of "The Secret Kingdam., '' Gazette, etc., will also be shown This programme will also be screened at the Matinee in the afternoon. ENGLISH PIERROTS. The English Pierrots—a company or ten accomplished entertainers, comprising singers, racorTceurs, and comedians, are announced to appear at the Town Hall on Saturday next. A glance at the' artists' names should convince intending patrons or" the excellence and versatility of the entertainment. Fun, frolic, and quaint concerted singing is included in the programme, and hilarity never slackens during the whole of the evening. The voices the English Pierrots have evoked favourable comment from press and public; in the humorous concerted work — it is not only the lighter vein that is - touched, but the musical taste is appealed to as well. Miss Rima Young, j pianist, and Miss Elsi ftosslyn, sc- I prano, are two new members of the ' combination. Miss Elsa Langley, the ' bright and dainty comedienne, and Miss Billie Wilson, the clever child' impersonator, are still members of the company, and will be seen and heard to advantage in new selected specialties, which have scored enormous successes .in Sydney and Adelaide, at which cities the Pierrots have played some twenty weeks. They will intro- . ducenew songs, sketches, burlesques, ensembles, concerted numbers, and the latest selections possible to obtain from the world's supplies, which keep the Pierrots up to date with an almost endless repertorie. The box plan is at Swedlund's. ; ,