ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 195, 16 February 1914, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

A tiIIEAT BRITISH BAM). OJXCEKT.S IN NEW J'LY.\i(H'Til. Two concerts arc In be jr;v*-n liy tin' Royal ArtiNery Hand i:J JS'cw I'iyui'oiitii. one on Thursday uvi-niuy in tin- Theatre .Royal, ami another in the Kecroaiion ui'ounds on Friday :■ ftiTuorm. Many (hie muMcal attractions haw visited New Zealand, but tlir prcnei't: tour of the ttcnal Artillery Hand, during the extension of its season at the Auckland Exhibition. ii:n--i. be counted one of the most important musical events 'that have hefalleu the tow in in which the | famous band i- able to play. In this instance the baud is one of tv.v or throe famous combinations which hohl a quiet rivalry for ab-olute suprciuacv i:) the world, £\'o band is more widely or more favorably known; none h»s it- services more widely sought. I'lolwbl.f no military kind is more exclusive in its eiiyugemeits, the Auckland. Exhibition authorities being remarkabl'' fortunate in securing Mich an exceptional musical attraction. The band eon-i?U of 43 performers, under the baion of one of Hie most famous kimlmastcrs in the work]. Mr C. E. Etretton; and it is cuuinucd with a wide range of bra* mid woodwind instruments, enabling it to produce the mo.-t elaborate anil beautiful music witk* all the richness and variety ,of color that d-istinguishcr a military \Wu»dJ from the nurcly brass onwiilsa'tjon. The band will arrive here from iWangnnui on Thursday afternoon, and New Plymouth bo'tnj; the town in the itinerary of the lour, it will leave for Auckland by Kriday evening's steamer. The box plan for the evening concert is now open at Mr 11. Collier's. A spucial train will be rim froui llawera on Friday afternoon, to enable country people to huar the afternoon performance, of the band. EMPIRE PICTURES.The new programme screened at the Empire Picture Palace o:i Sattmlav night i* one of unique attraction' it only from the fact that the principal feature is a. "Bison" niaßterpiece entitled' *]?!»•<>' Deuthßtonc of India." This remarkable film is one of the most mysterious stories from) a liyul above all mysterious, which the moving picture has ever presented to a New Plymouth audience. To recount tin- plot ill detail would be to spoil the interest of the picture. Suffice it to say that it is a mystic story of the Indian girl Buddha, set in scenery taken from India itself, which lcnlhi additional interest to *hc film. i The acting is in the hand* of a eompany of artist* who do full j istiee to I the'theme. v Anotfhcr picture of more tlfeu ordinarv j interest i* that showirfff the details of I the. seed imlu-'fcry in New Zealand. A ', highly educational fiJm. whieli is well worth seeing. Another interesting drama is "The llutler's Secret," a Vitnfjraph j film which hold* tin- interest from first to last. I These pictures, with a strong supporting programme of <cenics. draraa*, and •omedies, will lie nhowii again to-night and to-morrow flight.