ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 144, 14 December 1911, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

SAUNDERS' BIOGRAPH PICTURES. Whiteley Hall was crowded last night for the mid-weekly change of Picture lovers expected something good and were not disappointed. The programme is a diversified one, and every item is up to the excellent standard set by Mr. Saunders. There- are four dramatic Alms, all of a very powerful order. We have not space to describe them all, though all are worthy of detailed description. Still, for a modest sixpence, they can all be seen, and that conveys more than columns of talk. "The Switchman's Tower" is a particularly fine performance. It centres round the railway and engines, signal apparatus, etc., are shown in complete detail, even to the actual shifting of the points. Briefly, the story is that a signalman's wife becomes discontented with her lot, and goes away to a picnic despite her husband's objections, leaving a young child with her husband. The husband is shown in the signal-box attending to his duties, though his anguish is visibly portrayed. The little one meanwhile is playing about the box. Soon, however, she strays on to the line, right in the track of the returning picnic train, which he has to switch on to that line to allow the mail to pass. He is just about to pull the switch over when he sees his child's danger. He hesitates only a moment. It is his child's life or that of perhaps a hundred. He resolves to do his duty, even at the sacrifice of his child. The strain, however, telte and he faints. Just at the psychological moment, however, the mother, who has repented and returned home, rushes out and snatches her child from the very jaws of death. Reconciliations follow, and they live happily once more. The other dramas are: "The Puncher's New Love,"" "Through Jealous (Eyes," find "The Little Rebel." Pathe's Gazette deals with numerous interesting topical subjects. "The Birth of Flowers" and "The Police Dog Competitions" are two interesting and instructing subjects. "A Trip to Arcady" takes the audience through some, beautiful scenery. ... The comic scenes are all mirth producers of the highest order. The programme will be repeated to-night and to-morrow. PRIVATE RECITAL. A large and appreciative audience assembled in the Good Templar Hall last evening to listen to the efforts of the pupils of Miss Smith, L.A.8., L.T.C.L., and Miss Pike, L.A.B. Many of the pupils showed great promise, and from the applause and encores which they received it was evident that their hearers were satisfied with both the work of the teachers and performers. The following lengthy programme was gone through:— Pianoforte quartette, "Home Flowers," Misses Dell, Mander, Sole and Ching; piano solo, "Causerie in F," Miss Lily MeMilan; song, "Sea Fancies," Miss Mildred Thomson (encored), responding with an Irish lullaby; piano solo, "Sonata in B flat, op. 27," Miss Priscilla Greenwood; instrumental trio, "Op. 129," Miss Evelyn Dowling (violin), Miss Lennon ('cello). Miss Pike, LAB., (piano); song, "The Siesta" Mr. W. Smith; piano solo, "Sonata in G, op. 7f1," Miss Margaret Black; piano trio, "La Marquisse," Masters Russell, Matthews and Thomson; song, "Slave Song," Mrs. Arthur Avery (encored), responding with a Japanese lullaby; violin solo, "Serenata," Miss Evelyn Dowling (encored), and playing "Adagio" (Schubert); piano quartette, '•'Overture Commedietta," Misses Herbert, White, Thompson, and Bellringer; piano quartette, "Valse Brilliante, op. 34. No. 1," Misses Cutfield, Smith and Moon; vocal duet, "Day Morning," Misses Blnndell and Kyngdon (encored), responding with "Grey Days"; piano solo, "Allegro con Spirito," Master G. Hooker; song, "May Dew," Miss Rea (encored), responding with "Little Silver Ring"; piano solo. "Rhapsody in D Flat," Miss K. Bryden; violin solo, "Sarabanda ed Allegro Scherzo," Miss Evelyn Dowling (encored), and playing a serenade by Pierne; piano solo. "Polische Dance in D," Miss K. Winfiehl (encored), and contributing another Polische dance; song, "Love and Life," Miss Blundell (encored), responding with "Sealed Orders"; instrumental trio. Op. 49, "Molto Allegro ed Agitato," Miss Evelyn Dowling (violin), Miss Lennon ('cello), Miss Pike L.A.B. (piano), At the conclusion of the concert Miss Pike was the recipient of a handsome bouquet. The violin which Miss Dowling played in such a finished style was made in Hawera by Mr. Chas. Johnson.