ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 248, 29 March 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE GLAD EYE. _ _ The box plan for the forthcoming visit of Mr Beaumont Smith's "Glad Eye" Company is open at Collier's for the <'tily performance possible in New Plvir-mth at the Theatre Royal, which will take place to-morrow. "The Glad Eye" is one of the few latest successful English attractions now touring the Dominion, and will he presented hero with a company including Miss Ethel Dane, whose recent London successes make her appearance especially attractive while the main supporting artists were all specially selected in London for the Australasian tour. "The Glad Eye" is the comedy that kept London holding its sides with laughter lor fifteen ■ months. From rise to fall rf the curtain "The Glay Eye" is said to be a fountain of ceaseless mirth, and the all-round ability of the company has been endorsed by the Press' throughout Australia and 1 more recently in Wellington and Auckland. To-nigit the company visit Hawera. EMPIRE PICTURES.

Scientific crime and its detection is the basis of the story of the three-part Nordisk detective drama "The Woman' with Red Hair," which was shown at the Empire on Saturday. Kate Meradith, "The Woman With the Red Hair," is the confederate of an unscrupulous adventurer. They are at their wits' end for money, and selWie to possess some by stealing a Valuable antique ornament. All the r subtleties of the artists in crime are practised, including the use of an anaesthetic needle. The action of the drama is rapid, and the situations tense, while the story owes nothing to the overstretched arm of coincidence. Time after time the audience are worked to a high state of excitement before the detective starts hot on the trail of the criminal. The end of the drama is convincing and real. "Those Country Kids," is one of the very funny Keystone comedies, and Mabel Normand the world-famous comedy queen, appears as one of the "kids." Other films are "A Dog's Good Deed,", (pathetic drama), "Mr Bunny in Disguise," Gaumont Graphic" (topical), "Toledo," a beautiful scenic study. The programme is shown finally to-night. FRANK MORTON.

■Another two days and New Plymouth residents will have an opportunity of hearing Mr Frank ■ Morton in his lucid talk on the present Great 'War. The speaker will endeavor to show the Kaiser as the man he is, rather than as the man he professes to be. It is delightful to be able to speak with perfect candour of the morals of an Emperor, and. the opportunity is rare. We shall see what the Kaiser's moral pretensions are worth, and what his dreams of worldconquest have been leading him to. We shall be able to apply the test of conduct to the loud religiosity of Germany, We shall be interested to observe that what is foQ'tid or base in the art or literature of the time had its origin in Berlin and Vienna. All this is useful. The simply-godly-Gcrraan fetish needs to be knocked out. The box plan is open at Hoffmann's and in view of the immense amount of interest already created in this lecture the wise course is to reserve seats.

, ME PETER DAWSON. In response to numerous special requests Mr Peter Dawson, supported by his brilliant English company, will pay a return visit to New Plymouth in the Theatre Royal on Tuesday, April Oth, *for one night only. The extraordinary vogue of the gramophone in recent years has bee the means of introducing to music loverg in these Oversea Dominions a number of artists who have won for themselves a place in public fnvor as much by their capacity for "reproducing'' well for gramophone records as by their ability to please on the concert platform. Amongst these is Mr Peter Dawson—the great English baritone. Mr Dawson is touring New Zealand supported by an English concert company, including' Miss Annetta George, the well-known soprano, of the London and Provincial concerts. Miss Grace Newman, violinist, and Miss Carlicn Jurs, Pianist. Press the world over proclaim Mr Dawson's popularity, in Wellington the famous singer made a marked impression. "Few baritones that we have heard in recent years," remarks the Times, "can approach him as a ballad singer, and his pronounced versatility is a virtue that gives the rainbow tints to his programmes, and shows the abounding intellectuality of the true artist. The box plans open at Hoffman's next Wednesday, March 31st. Reserved seats 4s, other seats 3s and 2s.