ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 319, 5 June 1911, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"RIGHT IS MIGHT." Mr. William Anderson's finely balanced company played the American modern drama, "Right is Might," on Saturday night to a large audience, which was highly appreciative. Business drama specially appeals in these days of "get rich quick," and America is par excellence the country of its manufacture. The storv tells how a railroad company determine tn push a line through a ranch. The owner of the ranch is a girl, who is in the first instance antagonistic to the proposition. The concession won hy the railr-id company expires in sixty days, and the obvious business of the ranch people is to hinder it. This is where the cowboys of the aramatic pattern are useful and picturesque. The girl ranch-owner has loved a man. somewhere, sometime. There is a young engineer in charge of the railroad, and in one of the melees somebody sets killed and the engineer hurt. Shortly the engineer is the man the ranch girl loved sometime somewhere. He can't do much railroading while he is smashed up, so the girl "takes hold" and runs the railroad herself and gats it through on time. Thereafter, of course, wedding bells! Miss Beatrice Day, as "ihc Lady of the Lone-star ranch." brings a remarkable efficiency to her aid in bei reading of a strong, sweet eharaetcr as the antagonist of a corporation, or as the tender woman whose point of view is changed by her love, she is quite convinced and refreshingly natural. Mr. H. R. Roberts' robust and cheery acting lifts the character of the young engi neer on to a high plane. Emphatic and vigorous, he uses neither exaggeration nor any inartistic device to distort the propositions of an excellent story. Mr. Kenneth Brampton is a powerful player. As the fighting foreman of the lady's ranch he is most impressive, his fine dramatic powers standing him in good stead when he shoots the young enginaer. iho .story is made more interesting from the fact that this foreman loves the ladv of the ranch, too. Miss Florence Richter gives a nice little sketch of a simple, unsophisticated little soul who is bright and breezy and makes love delightfully. The cast was evenly good and the -scenery of the highest excellence.

THE SHEFFIELD CHOIR. For the last year-and-a-half the English and colonial papers have been replete with announcements of the visit of the jrreat Sheffield Choir to the dominions in connection with musical reciprocity and British Empire music festivals. It seemed almost incredible that one individual, Dr. Charles Harris?, should undertake such a gigantic tour all on his own responsibility. Not only will the choir be instrumental in giving an impetus to choral singing, but it will give the people of the Mother Country and the overseas dominions a chance to come into closer touch with their kith and kin, and also give British music a new fillip. Details of the Festivals to be given are now published. Through the energetic efforts of the Mayor of Palmerston North and Mr. Maurice Cohen, Dr. Charles Harriss agreed to give an extra concert in Palmerston Xorth. although this town was not included in his original scheme. Great preparations are now being made in Palmerston North for the visit of the Choir. The concert will take pkice at I p.m. on June SO in the A and P. Association's exhibition building, whiah n heing fitted up for the occasion in the most approved style. A miscellaneous and a eapella concert will be given by the full choir and soloists under the conductorshi]! of Dr. Henry Coward. The tickets for this, probably the greatest musical function ever held in the colonies, are to be balloted for on June 7, and the box plan opens on June 8 at the office of the A. and P. Association, and any orders addressed to Mr. J. C. Lane, box 144, Palmerston North, u'ill be booked in rotation.

Special trains have been arranged for by Dr. Charles Harriss' representative, Mr. Hugo Corlitz, to lie run from New Plymouth to Palmerston North, a-nd from Tapier to Palmerston North. The prices of the tickets for the concert are 10s for reserved seats and 5s for admission (not reserved).