ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 315, 31 May 1911, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"THE PRINCE AND THE BEGGAR. MAID." The box plan for the 11. G. Roberts and Beatrice Day Company is on view at Collier's music warehouse. The production will be Walter Howard's romantic play, "The Prince and the BeggarMaid." In referring to the recent representation in Melbourne, a contemporary writes:—Not for a long while has a work so full of interest, of color, sf life and of movement, been staged in a Melbourne theatre. It is a melodrama of the highest class, with a saving sense of restraint running through it. It is a breezy attractive production, and as such the crowded King's theatre acclaimed it." When produced last year in the Lyceum Theatre, London, a special performance was given before Her Majesty the Queen, and recently in Melbourne before His Excellency Lord Dudley (the Governor-General) and Georgina, Countess of Dudley. Mr Anderson's new organsation comprises artists new to the Dominion and a numof old favorites.

BIOGRAPH PICTURES. The outstanding feature of the change of programme at the Theatre Royal last night was the superb scenic films. The "Adda River Rapids," "Famous Waterfalls at Piedra" and "Clouds and Icefields" were especially beautiful and interesting, the audience being taken over a wealth of views of water and landscape not often to be seen in one evening's picture entertainment. A natural history film, entitled "Curious Caterpillars," was another subject that was watched with keen appreciation. The creeping insects were thrown on the screen magnified on a largo scale. The dramatic, comic and other films are well up to the usual excellent standard The programme will be repeated tonight. '