ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 10, 30 May 1914, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

FIRB BRIGADE BATfj, AN ENTBRISnNG FUNCTION. A flourish of trumpets will tiho arrival of the Hme Brigade at the Ttaitre R'oryaJ next nigOit, when the crowning oefeniM.vwl will take pfiace. Pie Queen will arrive in bar Jli oooicii, drawn by ,two beautiful 'luorsms, an*!, accompanied) 'by ibeaf body guard, will driwo up to the dtßll whevo lur maids of honor will bo wareeM ing to receive her. tinker a eanopy ahc will t'hen be crowned all dluc ccr©m»nf- by His WorrfMp ifc'aiiß Aft-ar the Nationa laaß toem has been sung, ahe will from the dias, and open (the baOHlplsj leading off the grand march. The ceremony will (bo <Um wojfcaf unique arid prettiwt scene ever wEffl nessed in New Hymlouth/ftiriit ibeJwS'iH everyone to arrive elarty to aee itt • ""l!® EMPIRE PICTURE PAIACE. "THE MIRAtm" To-day's prod»ic|iion at the W«wß|| TJwsatre of Profefi-or Max RHdnh«iwoßj| Mastery play, in, three pdrts, "Qfl Miracle," is exciting- local interest, tSr$M tluo number of persions making application for swfs have been. | ally Tail®?. The piny is shown by rangement -with Mr. Beaumont \ who, wilnle in England, pnmbased Australian rigihtn, Whlfn fir>t a,t Olympia, Londlon, wtith a cuft ojCtM living actors and actresses, and 'liellished by Hmnpiirdinek's music, a selection from which was\ir#«T?® centJly flayed by the .Royal AriillejyTjl Band, tiio «u«i>s ai-liievxtl was voiyijrS marked. Tlionsei/iiidrs of pereons fita/ted to be oencemed in the tiom, and finding it aCtogeittter too large' to tako into ti'ie •proviii'vsi. the mr-nt had the entire performance duced in motion pictures and preseflrtej-g.® at t ; he Hoynl Opera. House, .CtoM»l";fi Garden. The rif>3its of Humpcrdinck's "I music were seeuml, an# tliH laitter WM arranged to synchronise with the see»*?| tion in tlie pictured story. The reoiH « : '*- ia said to have exceeded all expectyr./ij itions', and tihe Oov<>nt Garden performniieo is oiited as nulling the o<ymp|Ui 1 production. To-day's and to-nigihtVi perfonnance is from tOiie same negatlvo as that given at Covent Garden, and it is therefore an exact copy. Ghoire, 4 ohoijisters and auxiliaries will lend lxhilislni to the story, while the orvlisetar&r Qms been considerably augmented to oope with Humpcrdinck's mwic. Box 4 plans for the ent're season, ftaturday, Monday and Tuewlay. are now open at 'a tlia Empire. TJione 388. t -n THEATRE ROYAJ, PICTTURBS." '' J '•THE SPECKLED BAND." '1 TSiS?) afternoon at 2.3Q and to-nifihtf,"! at 8 o'clopk wiM sos the/ last of tlie present excellent prograiume the Tbenire Royal Pictures. The star?|| frnis Conan Doyle's great detective ma, 2000 ft, "The Speckled Bawl,'' IUUIM met witii a fine recoptfon, and those wfeiUM visit tllie theatre Itio-nigilit -\vffli grcafHy M enjoy this fasbiaiating story, Hx> si one Company are lagain w'tih another great ldflOf't cioimedy, has ca«<wrl grcot .laughter at sorewiiny. Th<«ie two films, by a vi-ry pVasing collection of lotSlwJi dramas, coipedies, audi scenics, a. fine evening's amußement. pi-icea imle, Is and oft.