AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 251, 29 November 1909, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

OPEN-AIR PICTURES.

Mr. Henry Hayward is nothing if not enterprising. In order to cater for the public during the summer months he lias arranged for liis pictures to be shown in the Recreation Grounds every Friday night. This innovation should be much appreciated and patronised, for patrons will be able to walk about if they care to, and gentlemen can indulge in smoking to their llieart's content. Arrangements are being made for music to be supplied by a strong orchestra. This new departure should meet with considerable support. .Mr. Hay ward's pictures arc always good and invariably wholesome; nothing is allowed to be shown .which would be likely to offend the taste of the most fastidious.

THE AMATEURS. Oil Wednesday and Thursday next the local amateurs produce Byron's wedknown and wonderfully popular three-act comedy, "Our Boys." Apart from the fun in the piece, of which there is plenty, it is thoroughly appreciated on account of its interesting characters. The people in the play are not mere puppets with words put into their mouths to say, but each character is more or less real, portraying a type of humanity that exist*) and is well-known. The two old fathers, one an aristocratic old humbug, the other a large-hearted man, but very blunt and distinctly " bourgeois," are wonderfully well-drawn characters, whilst their sons are also living beings—one the rather brainless "Johnny," who withal is not a bad fellow underneath; and the other a manly, straightforward, nice-looking young man. And so follow the rest of the characters. This play has delighted millions' of people, and we feel sure will likewise delight all who visit the theatre this week, for the ea.st arranged is a good one, and each should suit his or her part excellently. Xew scenery is promised from the brush of Mr. Fred Stevens, and also good music from Mr. W. Perry's orchestra. The. box plan is now open at Collier's and seats arc filling up rapidly.