ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 109, 24 September 1912, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE LAUGHTER-MAKERS. To-morrow night a vaudeville entertainment, combined with a programme pf pictures, will be put on in the Theatre Royal. The first part of the evening's amusement will be provided by the Wvkeham-Naible Company, who are paying a return visit to New Plymouth, while the pictures will l)e screened by the Royal Pictures proprietary. The company is equally at 'home with vaudeville as with comedy, and includes several performers with a big reputation. The repertoire of the company is as ex«e"S'»e • aS * s ' Ori o ilml > and several "hits" in song and story are promised. The performers will include such highly talented artists and artistes as Miss Pressy Preston, who is a balladist as well as an actress of considerable note; that brilliant and eccentric dancer, Mr Nable, Miss Maud Chetwynd, who specialises in burlesque and inimitable dancing, Miss Cazella, whose sweet soprano voice figures in lyric work, and Mr. Laslibrooke, who draws upon his long experience in. comic opera in his rendition of light and airy selections. Prices will be 2s and Is, and the box plan is open at Hoffmann's.

THE PAXTOMTME- t 'SIXnAD Tll !v SAILOR." w, "What is described by Australian critics as the best pantomime evolved by .J. C." Williamson, Ltd., to date, "Sin'bad the Sailor," will be presented at the Theatre Royal on Thursday and Friday next. The critic of the Melbourne Age writes of the production as follows:—"The ,T. C. Williamson annual pantomime has come to "be recognised as the greatest show of its kind in Australia, It may be said .at once that this year. 'Sinba'd the Sailor' as a pre-eminently fine production would be hard to beat anywhere whether'in London, Paris, Berlin, Ancient Babylon, or Timbuetoo. It is stage glory personified. The ingredients are the dances, patter songs, ballets, jokes and stage pictures that have been bow.,in the minds of several authors during the twelve months. Certainly never within present remembrance has there been such a succession of beautiful tableaux and ravishing transformation scenes as are witnessed in 'Sinbad the Sailor.' In this pantomime, as in all others, the powers of evil and good are contending—the wicked machinations of The Old Man of the Sea"- -are.-foilcd at everyyturn by the Spirit of Adventure. The scenic effects are especially fine, notably those depicting the Port of Balsora, the Roc's Nest, the Home of the Serpent, the Cascade of Jewels, the Valley of Diamonds, arid Hinbad's .Christmas 1 arty. The effects are dazzling in their beauty and bewildering in their grandeur. At times the stage is crowded with magnificently costumed girls in all the glitter and gorgeousness of the do-main-of Fairyland. Particularly grand spectacles are' the Ballets of the Diamond and the Rose. On this scintillating picture the curtain has to be raised again and "again, while in the Flying Ballet in> which a number*of'beautiful girls remain poised in mid-air over the heads of the stalls' occupants, realism has reached its zenith." There will he* a matinee on Friday afternoon, when children will, be admitted at half-price.