ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 10 February 1914, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HOrAL PICTUKiiS. ' The new programme- screened at .the. , Theatre Royal last night' fiOmpriai* /an excellent eollecliou of lilflis!. on v.i'fio H subjects. Chief among tiitee is all attractive Kdinou drama entitled ■'Caste/' dealing, as its name implies, with the ever interesting question of class distinction. This social problem is illustrated in a forcible manlier by the story of a young scion of the aristocracy, who ' marries a girl of the people, tie is oril'ered to India with hi-, regiment, and his wife with her infant ohild is left to the tender mercies of his mother, who lias hitherto refused to countenance the marriage. News comes of the young man's death, and his haughtv mother idler., to adopt the child but refuses to help her daughter-in-law, unless she agrees never to see the child again. This oll'er is indignantly refused. The final scene is a reconciliation between aristocracy and democracy, which givjs the picture a satisfactory ending. "The Faithful Servant" is a Yitaeraph drama which will attract attention from the fact that (he popular Jlauricc Cosfello takes the'leading part. These pictures, with a good supporting programme, will be shown again to-night for the last time. DIFACLT Oil Mct'ORMACK.? It is a fortuitous circumstance that our far-distant land should be visited within a few months by two great tenors id' the day, the representativee- e[ iwo great schools of music. John MoCormaek came as the great lyric tenor of this generation, while I'aiil Dnfault come-, as the ri.iing dramatic tenor of the day. Jhisic-lovers throughout Aus-' j tralasia. where both tenors have been ) heard, have divided themselves , into I rival camps, each loudly acclaiming the i supremacy of his chosen singer. ..To ' tliose who love, melody, pure and .-imple McC'orinack stands unrivalled, while with those who prefer beauty of voice, allied with rare dramatic genius, and with the power of portraying a story, Uufiiulr ranks alone. Even the Melbourne Age has stepped into the fray and remarks. '-Any comparison between Paul Dnf'uult and John MeOornuick would be in execrable taste at the present time, however interesting it might be, but it is permissible to suggest that neither tenor would suiter by such comparison." Paul Dnfault will be heard here, supported bv a strpiig concert- cmnpanv. at the Theatre Royal on Wednesday, February Lsth. The box plan opens at Collier's at H o'clock to-morrow.morning.