ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 160, 23 November 1912, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"THE GEISHA." "Quite as good as some of the best professional shows and better than most," "The best amateur performance I've ever seen," "Couldn't imagine I was watching an amateur performance," "Good enough, to tour New Zealand! with,", "Well done New Plymouth,"— ■these were some of the remarks heard afterthe last perforamnce of "The Geisha" ifiere. Many of gur townsmen went the night more as a matter of duty, but did they enjoy themselves : ;iKat they not only turned up again the Vecond night, but they say they wouldn't ;hay(j missed it at any price. It says a 'ijreat deal for a performance when' it ijiraws a record crowd the second night. ¥nfl it's the best possible advertisement ■"the Society could have. The man in the street is a keen critic; there are no half pleasures with him, and generally speak•Jijgi he pays his money and thoroughly Intends getting his money's worth. "The Oeiflha" gave him his money's worth. When the curtain went up on the second pight a murmur ran through the house •which is difficult to describe. It reminded one of an intense stillness, or to put it in a better way, an acute 'ndrawing pf breath, a sort of "Well, well, who'd kave thought' New Plymouth could hare put on such beautiful scenery." The audience were pleased from the start, and as one townsman remarked, "I went there quite expecting to put in three hours of boredom, and more as a matter of duty than anything else, but got so interested that I was sorry when it was finished." The box plan will open at Collier's Music Warehouse on Monday, November 25, at 8.30.

THEATRE ROYAL PICTURES.

The usual matinee will be held, commencing at 2.30 this afternoon, when the full programme, including "Lieut. Daring" and "The Melbourne Cup" pictures, will be on view. The same programme will be shown again for the last occasion, commencing at 8 o'clock this evening, and this will be absolutely the last chance of viewing the Cup picture. On Holiday night another complete change programme will be introduced, direct from the loading film producers. Monday's change will include another great Xordisk star picture ''Shanghaied," 3000 feet in length, containing some of the most novel and thrilling incidents that have ever been introduced into any subject.

EMPIRE PICTURE PALACE. A complete new programme will be nhown at the matinee this afternoon and again at the evening performance. The selection, as usual, includes all brancehc* of interest in motion pictures. Educational, scenic, topical and industrial pictures are judiciously interspersed with an admirable arrangement of dramatic and comedy studies. A glance at our advertising column will give a fine idea of the many good things in store for Empire patrons to-night.