ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 25, 30 June 1913, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

POLITE VAUDEVILLE! AT THE THEATRE ROYAL TO NIGHT. It is said that the race of minstrel', corner men is fast becoming extinct; but, be that as it may, it wontld be 1 hard to itaagine four more capable knights of the burnt cork than Messrs, Rockley,' White, Spilker, and Fairbank, who dispense fun galore from the blue and gold plush covered corner seats in the opening production of minstrels in Mr. Vincent M. Beebe's Polite Vaudeville Company. * These four gentlemen have retained, in improved form, all the best tradition of the hones' and tambos' of bygone days, and have i thereto many modern innovations which stamp them at once as past masters in the art of merry making. The specialty acts are of such variety, and so distinctly different that it would be hard t° pick any particular act as the star of the mIL > For those who enjoy music punctuated; With catchy- pantomime comedy, the 'Musical Bartletts have been specially fehgaged. The protean actor Kcilderson, has perfected a new act entitled "the'one man music hall," which facial 'impersonations, chapeaugraphy and ventrilbquism, thus combining in a twenty minute act the best features of a performance which well might be prolonged by a less versatile entertainer to anywhere from one to one and a half hours. The New Plymouth season opens at the Theatre Royal to-night (Monday) and the box plan is now on view at Collier's. •« ______ r< EMPIRE PICTURES. The programme of films submitted at the Empire Picture Palace on Saturday n-ght wag well above the usual standard, and. merited praise from the most Of patrons. A complete change ■- . nf "star" iteip's was screened, including several dramas, and some interesting *nd Vcenie Alms. The Kalem Irish film "Con the Shaughraun." has wen rightly entitled a,-mas-terpiece. K presented a hew of striking characters, 1 and for a . background, , . possesses ; the most magnificent Irish : SWhtfry:.. .The storv is laid in the troub- 1 (ous times of' the Fenian scare of 18(15, And is too well known to require recapij; "Between Life and Death," wasajfffiima by the well" known "AmjMM". ternhle position of a young nobleman -' Jho 15,.-condemned to death by a siiindfi; c lib, and the manner in which he nltimnltelv escapes death. "Life of the r)fini«tr W ns a verv interesting film.,depicting the life led bv the simple peasantry of the .heath of Jutland, in Denmark. A film demoting winter swirls in GMacia. was also verv inteipsting. Besides these, there were a number of comics, chief among them bein:: eflorts of two children to get a practice for a young doctor. THEATRE ROYAL PICTURES. Owinj to the Theatre Royal being engaged W travelling companies, there will be no .pif hires showing to-night or tomorrmv ii qht. On Wednesday night the i iifft'' t '^ lr<>H w '" again occupy the nail, wnfcn n eomplote now programme will be submitted, tho chief attraction being r Nordisk headliner. "A Court Intrigue." The 'Excellence of the Nordisk C ompany'? productions is always noticeable, and the success enjoyed bv this firm is thoroughly merited.' No matter whftthnr q film is three hundred or thro** thousand jfeet long, it receives the same attention; and, is of the same photographic quality from beginning to end Patrons pre. notified that this big star picture 'ltfill be shown for one nicht only. 6