AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 7 August 1907, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

CARRENO RECITAL. • r The plan has now been opened for i the Cam-no recital to be given at the Theatre Royal next Saturday night. Madame! Cam-no recently ended her ehort Australian tour after making a great inturuniou on her audiemccs in the chief cities. It has been said of her that the iuost convincing thing aliout her personality is that she draws the nonmusical as well as the most cultured students of rthe piano. "It is thci warm human feeliflg that she seems to press out of the i»ory keys with her fingers that wins all hearts anil causes awn and women to stand up and shout arid wave hats anl handkerchiefs wildly."' The programme for Saturday's recital will : include popular masterpieces by Boethoren, Chopin, Rubinstein, Pagan ini and Liszt.

RIOKARDS' VAUDEVILLE !<-'OM- 1 '- PANT. Mr Harry Kickards' Vaudeville iCompany will open at the Opera House? on Friday evening next. It is seldom tfcat Mr Rickards las found himself able to include so many European "stars" in a travelling combination, and lovers of. n light, bright vaudeville entertainment will have an opportunity of witnessing at popular; prices a programme contributed by several of the best known performers of the London vaudeville stage, Fred. Rttssell, Charlene and Chiixlcie-, King and Benson, and Miss Cassie iWalmer. Of. Fred Russell ft Dunedin. <on--1 temporary aaid:— "Mr Russell's ventriinipiial powers are ipiite exceptional- He endows the little figure seated on Ms I knee with, nn extraordinary semblance to life. As for Mr Russell's talk, it is of the kind that threatens the ■features of the admirer of vaudeville with perpetual distortion." The costumes worn by Madame Charlene are described by the Sydney Morning Herald as "entitled to rank among the most beautiful creations ever seen on the colonial stage." King and Benson will introduce solos, duets, and dances, interspersed witli patter, which the Daily Telegraph (Sydney) describes as "quite ori"iual and free from any trace of vnlIgarity. - ' Of Miss Cassie Walmer, the Wellington Kvening l'o.-l -ays "is an artiM to her finger-tips." The plan of reserved seat- is now opened at Collier and (Vs.

MK (jEORfiK MCS.'ROVT.'S ROV.iL ] GUANO OPKKA COMPANY. , The box plan opens to-day for the | two performances to be given- by Mr I Uroiye liraml Opera Compmy hen? cm Monday and Tuesday next. Keferrinjr to the openin;j of ill.; box plans fur the Melbourne seasin, ; the Melbourne Arjnis of March 2li do-~i-r|l>i-s the scene:—"The booking office was opened and the battle began in ear- '■ 'J'he croud swayed forward as uc-t. of the rear forced the the pre? ■• (ljts t the »liill, and backfront rank Mars fought their wav a-ain es the le» B ,i„, v ),.„( )lH j, desperately to the p.- - . n( ,,^ s fllu|C , ( , nat-s. battered and *ha ludicrously above the s»a}" ~ ~„l shoulders. Home," and-stru m> fl . () „, |,„, Imrnc liclpiessit K-harc-.,-ramble. Half a down tunes °n'»-''™ holder was carried clean .way fiomthe-, hn<,kins stall, aud ns many times Je, sctecjed and shouldered buivsel back. ~„ „■,„., the woodwork of the box iVTnlv h- held his position till he re'eiv'd bis ticket. As he took it from

the clerk mother ru-li carried him o::-u-tr.l ate' with crushed hat and crump--1,..',, ,:„, u „. „,,,, his coat perched man ..nti-c'v novel manner on one shoulder lii.,..'hv one cmerped from the janil I triiifiii.il nf. b-auV their weaker breth |r, „ in i,.,tt|e f.,r the rcmniiithfr prizes.' It is not anti.ipil-d Ihe same scene In i|i r„.,iir lew. bui vew jtvat intcrc si li. !-,.i.,.r di-olav.-d iii the perfoinianre 1,.„ Ato„',l,.e 'and Tnc-s.l.v ne\t. On til •|..„,ni"..- ni-ld (\lonchyi Wnjjner'strreu 'I work ••fcdcTf.-riri" will be perforipcc 3lon Tn, d.iv 'iounod's composition w ; .-ll„. -iven. ' The bov plan- are al (' llr-.»tll<T Piano Co.'s depot. .'"'l will 1 opened at 9 o'clock this morning.