ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 91, 12 September 1914, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE DANDIES. - ''The Dandies" are returning to New Plymouth. They come with a great reputation. The Evening Post, Wellington, says:—"The Dandies, who wear orange-colored facings, gave a new pro-, gramme at the Town Hall last evening. As before, the whole entertainment went swiftly and brightly. Although there was the oliicially-compiled programme to go by, yet it was doubled when the encores were taken into account, and had it been left to the audience it might have been trebled, so per-i.-tent were'the em ores, which is prima facie evidence of the intense popularity of the Dandies. Mr Koland llcnrv is an entertainment in himself. J lis, little sketch, 'His Last Half-pint,' was very clever. J.ike all genuine comedy should lie and is. it had in it a strong strand of pathos running through it like a red strand in an Admiralty rope. A simple tiling-a picture (/f it garrulous toper—-ami yet 'lone !>y a master. The daintiness 'of the D.mdie'ti' form of entertainment is no doubt attributable to the fact that all who lake part in it can really sing and dance and act, and not merely think they can. Each artist in his or her own way gives tlia impression that in the particua'i item of the moment the limit of excellence is not reached, that there is much power in reserve. (.If the other members of the company, it may be truthfully said that they are fully equipped for •bigger things/' 1 And this, no doubt, is "the explanation of the company's popularity as demonstrated again ami again last evening by its friends, for "0 <iiie who has once seen the combination can regard him or her-elf as otherwise than n.-ii intimate, terms with its minibus, and that is why people go again ami again to the. Dandms. "The Dandies" will appear in the Theatre Koyu! for three nights, commencing Monday, 21st in-t. A complete change of programme will be made, each evening. The plan opens at Collier's next "J'hursday t-vening.

KMPiiii; s'K'n'i:.-: palace, ••the Tiuucvi Mi.\->::-:.i'K.::!'.V' " At to-:iigin's s reining at .'.:.• Umpire Theatre of "I ,'ie Three Mu-ketccrs," a New Plymouth audience wJK ie inlroI ducerl to t.'i.i bigger l\hv iifty ever made for |.|\ si-utttinn on nil.' e'venimj. "the picture closed what u suckcm o.' 'a- one of tin; most Hlcccs.-i'ui seasons 'we:- seen at Au-klaul and AVellington .'.a lew weeks ago, when it i, lvmirlcd | 'many were unable to obtain admission. This ma.-sivc pro.lm-lhin has a film I lengeh of I!M.-(,-i f.-et, and is in ii-e'f c. I'eon.'ilete ente: tainment. As the screin- ,' ing takes tw„ hour, and a ~.Miter tit.' ' management intimate in our amusement column that ihe screening -'..iris at .- -'clock -harp. The plot of Alexandre llamas' woild-rimrd roman-e is so wid.'ii know ii Uiat it iced mil he re«ujiitii'u!ed here. The pictovia! rcpro-dm-tion i,. said to I'oll.jw in,, book faith- ' fully, and pie-en;. j.| the ir-tahi:- im-i----'dents and i pi-odes of the great story. The hand.-onie e..-tiiic.'s if t lie time of Lou 1 .. XII. of frame, a !mirab!\ cirrietl by distinguished hclms an.! actresses, are a fealiue o!" the production. The

scenic m-1 tings are suited to b- v t r. ■I ---t ill if iii. These are rep:'o.!ii--tin:ts of Old ael'.ia! dungeon.-, prise/as. <o:irls and • qius.nt iur,- in Ih.ilcd; in Dumas' woi'k. l>v mean- of .in" dresses and the sailings a:i elnprabii: Old World ;iLun:-ph:re i, p'.'c- r\. d. Tiie number < f seat-: aPeady ivsorced at the E npiic indicates a ki en. public interest in the play.

J' TIIKATKK ■llOVA!. I'i Tm'lV. Till-: DAKJviir.N 1!. IIKTivT.YK. •' PatriHH aI- remind•! of the -..-ivciiiii? 'of :i. fine ct.lio.-tioii <>: vli<>l>i|il:iys sit ihc Theiti':> Kova-1 to-dnv at -2.:t-i. mil iin-im t r.t 8 i;V-]ock to-ni;.'!Jt. The -tar drama i-i a pudienlarlv powerful one. ;irnl full o. sensational and im-ide.ils. 'JV 1 fmnmrtiir.' programme is veil up t- the r«]uinw»t* of Theat.e K<>va! p-emre lovers. Seats reserved by |dione 3Uj.