ENTERTAINMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 206, 28 February 1912, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

MISS ROSMA BUCKMAN. The gift of song is one of Mother Nature's most precious benisons, and in all ages, times and countries, the singer has wielded greater power than the statesman. The beginning of all art is in the outburst of passionate nature in un- ' tutored song. We trace history by the crude rock-drawings of the aneients, and the folk songs they sung. Songs nobly sung have stirred the earth, have spurred nations, have effected changes impossible' to any other means. There never yet was a great singer who learned how to sing. ,The Mother who wrote the musie for the thrush's matin is chary of her gifts to the human kind, for there could be no power in song if all could sins equally well. To-night New Plymouth will greet Miss Rosina Buckman, a favored child of the good Mother, who sings because she must sing, for the Mother gives all her children their talents for tht use of all humanity. .Miss Buckman's ; natural gift has been burnished by the 1 art that so assists nature, and she .comee to her native town with a voice that is in its early maturity, and temperamentally inclined to appeal profoundly to the sense of beauty. She has happily bee* persuaded to sing those songs that are .-> dear to the people and to sing them in the language that all understand. It is a concession that many eminent singers l do not grant, a presumption that but a few of the musically acute are worth singing to. In the programme there are some very beautiful semi-Maori *ong», and Italian is not a more, beautiful vehicle for song than Maori. There is the point that New Plymouth people should show their pride in Miss Buckman, npt merely because she is one of ' them, but because she has achieved » definite and desirable place in 'art. -In the few years that have elapsed since Miss Buckman was welcomed as a cominfl singer, she has fulfilled every expectatioa of the art-loving prophets, who promised! that she had a great career before her. With Miss Buckman are Mr.. Hamilton Hodges, a singer of unquestioned power, j and who is at the moment dqiflg better work than ever, Mr. Herbert Bloy, a I brilliant violinist, Mr. Arthur Carbines, I an excellent pianist, and other artists of 'distinction. To-morrow night Misß Buckman will sing at Stratford, and she will appear at Eltham on March h

GARDEN PARTY. We wish to remind everyone of the garden party which is, to be held tomorrow (Thursday) at Mr. J. H. Frethey's grounds! in aid of the Frankleigh Park Sunday School, i Arrangements have been made for 'busses-to run during the afternoon, the first on» to leave Ambury Bros.' corner at 2 o'clock. The charge will be 6d each way. Given fine weather, the function promises to be 6ne of the most enjoyable of the year. ' „

! EMPIRE THEATRE, j "THE TWO ORPHANS." . The most successful dramas ever 'penned are those which .set down with I perfect naturalness the common virtuet • I and the common failings of humanity. The caricatures of human emotion, thr exaggerations of daily life, appeal momentarily and die. The simpler stories classics. "The Two Orphans" i» a classic simply and solely because it is a replica of human nature, and tells th» •wnmon story of love, life, hate*, fortune and misfortune. The story itself ' is so well known as to need'little repeti- ' [ tion, except that it may be necessary to I remind the reader that it is based on th« •upposition that a French nobleman hat committed the crime of murder. He ha> violently quarrelled with his daughtea for marrying a man who is beneath her ia station and has murdered the man. "The daughter of the marriage is fostered by a peasant woman,. Who also has ai •lighter. The peasant woman dies. Hence "The, Two prphans." Louise, th» daughter of-' the murdered man becomes blind, and Henriette, her foster sister, becomes involved in the many adveutures that make the story so enthralling. It is claimed that the cinematographic representation of this dramatic classic by Selig is the finest of its kind ever presented, for every possible means have been taken to obtain the living -realisni that makes the story unique.'" In the pro-' duction of this picture the actors and actresses are the most eminent who have ever undertaken this class of work, and the whole drama is shown with a. perfection of detail not hitherto attempted. To suggest the many thrilling - incidents of a truly great picture drama would minimise the value of the producr tion, and it is therefore sufficient to mention that, it is so full of vivid incident that it is followed with the closest interest. To-night this picture will be screened at the Empire Picture Palace, while the general programme will be o*/ the usual high order.

THE ROYAL PICTURES.

AT THE EAST END BEACffij

Given fine weather, the picture 4 entertainment at the East End Bathing Reserve to-night should attract a'Kufe attendance. A full specially selected programme will be screened by the Royal Pictures and Orchestra. Among the best of an excellent collection: tpf picjujyes to be shown is a topical film depicting manyscenes during the recent Wellington tramway strike, which will undoubtedly be looked forward to with great enthusiasm. The long train of cars deserted by the men when they le : fVduty to attend their first mass meeting, th« tramwaymen en route to the meeting place, the crowd outside the Trades. Hall, and King's Theatre, and scenes at atha mass meetings at Newton Park are all, vividly depicted. Included in the sam» series are some interesting views of th« opening of the yachting season on Wellington harbor.