AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 283, 24 November 1908, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

THK "KILTIES" JULITAKY BAND. The famous Kilties Band, which appears here on Thursday, 3rd December, in a. matinee performance in the Recreation Ground in the afternoon, and with a splendid concert .programme in the Theatre Royal at night, passed through New Plymouth from Auckland yesterday morning. At the railway station, in their picturesque uniform, they Attracted much attention, particularly Major MacCormaek, the 7ft .S'/gin drummajor. The company numbered over fifty, persons. There was an impression abroad that the Kilties comprised a pipe band only, This is quite a mistake, as, while they have a talented pipe band, dancers, etc., in the Clan Johnstone family, including several lady performers, the band proper is a full military one, and is immeasnrablv superior to anything ever heard in this conntrv. From a musical point of view brass bands have flieir limitations; the woodwind and strings supply color ell'eets. etc., that are quite beyond brass alonej and, again, have a much more extensive musical library to draw fronr. A critic wrote in Sydney that the paying of the "Kilties" was, a revelation of what is possible in band music when each member of the combination is a master of bis instrument; with an admirable ensemble to which a number of wood instruments lend color to the concerted tone and variety in. the accompaniments, a wonderful range of expression was displayed. Jn the full forte passages the united effect was so completely animated by. the same spirit that it appeared more like the work of one man than that of a number work-

ing in thr achieve nt lit a good resuit. Precision and response to direction, added to the full round tone, always clear and clean, made the playing a triumph of tile bandsman's art. The company also includes a choir of twenty voices. r'rum present indications, intending patrons, unless they book early, lire likely to be disappointed regarding their seats. The management, in response to enquiries, has also decided to open ii sale of reserved seats at Avery's, tobacconist, for the Recreation Ground matinee. (J'JsEIUVS BUGKJI'JU'KUS. To-morrow uiglit this taleuled combination opens in the section near the l'ost Ollice. The performance lakes place in a huge canopy-top hippodrome over 38UR in circumference, where the audience can sit in perfect safety watch the antics of the famous Outlaws and other performers, which take .place in a strongly iron-railed arena 75ft in diameter. During the season here all kinds jif competitions will take place, including saddle and biirohack, and lovers of horses and horseuiiniship will have an opportunity of witnessing the greatest exhibition ever presented here. There are forty bucking horses, pontes, donkeys, and bullocks, all kept expressly for giving exhibitions, and Mr. Krnio O'Xcill holds it as a matter of pride that in .the performance of his famous company nothing is tolerated that will offend. Barnard and Barnard, the rilleshots, oiler £IOO to any person who can prove that anything'but bullets is used i u their daring and intrepid shoot- 1 iug act. There is also plenty of amuse- ' nient for the little ones, and the per- ' formanco is instructive and interesting ' for young and old. Ladies are admitted ( to all parts for la, <

I TUB IiOYAL t'KTLT.KS. On show-night (Thursday next) the lioyal Pictures will again appear at the Theatre Royal. The latest in cinematograph films will lie shown. The syndicate have just received n large shipment of the latest subjects from New York nml London, and they will be screened for the first time. Popular prices will be charged. The box plan will lie at tin. Dresden.