AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 67, 28 June 1910, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

MR. FRED. STEVENS' BENEFIT. The benefit entertainment to be held this evening gives promise of being the best thnt has ever been arranged locally. The vocal and instrumental part of the programme will be of a very high order, and should be well received. Miss Handly, who holds several gold medals for singing, and who has sung with great success in nearly all the principal towns of the Dominion, will contribute two items, one being that beautiful song '•Love the Pedlar" and the other "TeU lie, My Heart." 'Miss Hiandly u net new to the New Plymouth public, as it will be remembered she sang here some twelve months ago and was well received. Messrs. Cornwall, Woodard, and Nixon will each contribute a gong. The two vocal quartettes are sure to be popy* lar items, and the banjo jp always well received whenever the members play in public. Mr. Will. Perty*® orchestra, which will contribute the first item on the programme, is too well and favorably known to need comment. Besides the excellent musical programme arranged there will be a display of beautiful pictures by the Biograph Company, who have kindly offered their services} and last, but not least, will be the comedietta "Mrs. Hilary Regrets," by members of Mr. Easther's Comedy Society. "Mrs. Hilary Regrets" is a very bright and cleverly-written comedy, in the hands of Mr. Easther and hi*' friend's should meet with a great reception. The box plan is now open at the Collier Piano Company's rooms. MADAME CARRENO. Madame Teresa Carreno's New Zealand tour, under the direction of Herr Benno Scherek, will be continued in New Plymouth at the Theatre Royal on Tuesday evening, sth July, when this distinguished exponent of the piano will be heard in classics and romantics. Thei box .plan will be opened at. Collier's on Thursday. Madame Carreno, who practically commenced her Australasian tour in Melbourne at the end of last month, was rewarded with crowded houses, which gave her enthusiastic receptions, a success which was repeated in Wellington and Dunedin. Unlike the prophets, Madame Teresa Carreno is not without honor in her own country. > The Venezuelans fully appreciate the lustre she has shed upon them. A few year# ago they asked her to compose a national anthem for them, and when she returned to Venezuela on its completion she was for nine months the guest of the Republic. Wherever she went, at railway and other stations, she was met by military and civio officials in gorgeous uniforms, and brass bands blared noisy welcomes. All the towns she', visited presented her with their Freedom, enclosed in a golden casket.' Her concerts were sold out for weeks in advance, and the hours not devoted to study or performances were filled up with reception*? , serenades, and 'banquets.