ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1915, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

LKO CHERXIAVSKY. Music, lovers will be delighted to hear that the Clieniiavsky brothers aie coming on. the '2lst inst. Leo. Cherniavsky. the eldest of tile trio, was .born 011 August .10.. 1 KM). At a very early age he i showed a. distinct inclination towards jnitsic. When he was six his father hepan to teach, hini the violin, and the boy .made such wonderful progress that six months later lie was allowed to make his first public aiipeariui.e with his father's ,orchestra. iSiiortly afterwards he won a prize, ,10(1 roubles (£10), at the Odessa 'Conservatoire! Then Leo went 011 tour fwith his brother Jan), making, it 1111 rd for him to take a proper course of "lessons with any otiler teacher than his father. Tlowcv."! - , his elder brother. Cregor, h.iniself 11 great violinist, was at that time one of the best pupils of Pro.feasor, Aucr at Petrograd (St. Petersburg! Conservatoire, und in his holidays Oregor used to join Leo 011 tour and impart to him th- great Professor's teaching and (methods, which he had thoroughly assimilated. Auer was so greatly inrpressed when he subsequently heard Leo ■ play for the first time that he summoned his pupils to listen to him; later on l.eo took lessons from "\save. who not long ago sent him his photograph 'with the fluttering inscription. ''To mv colleague," The plan i« at Collier's. ' v ; i MARY iPTCKFORB, AT THE EMPIRE.

That ifascinating little film artistt, ■Mary 'Pk-kford. features in ''The Eagle's 'Mate." the 'big film on the new ,irograimne presented at the Empire Theatre 011 Saturday nig'lit. Her acting iu this picture ,is really masterful, and in it -she travels the whole gamut of emotions from that of the smiling coquette to the tragic part of a young girl accused with murder. The story tells of th■> Monies of Virginia, a lawless mountain clan "svornful of any la.w save that writ large i n their own hearts." The chin hag its abode on a nearly inaccessible peak called tho Eagle's Eyrie. The leader of the clan is arrested for moonsihining, a.nd his son I.arce, who has adapted himself to the civilised life, forsakes this to rescue his 'father. Then there conies along a. brutal, uncouth person who abducts Anemone, the pretty ward of one oT the Monies, to the wild home in the mountains. Here Lance meets the pretty Anemone, and ouite naturally the two fall in love. llow thev W. married in the wild fastness of tho mountain, how* they combine to outwit this "brutal, uncouth person." and how Lance and his bride comment c their'honeymoon in the evrie, is stirringly portrayed in the great pioture of tnn 'Famous Plnvra (rairpanv. Arnrt from 'the attraction of tlie picture, the wild scenery of the mountains is beautifully reproduced. Tlie supporting subjects include: The War Gazette and "Bunny Buys a Hat for his Bride*' (a most amusing comic film, featuring the jiortl.v Vitagraph comedian.) TTiPTKRARY. The imi'i'iitlccut e\rl||:.ive patriotic"! drami, '■ Tiiv'crarv." founded on the; well-known Mmf. will be screened at tlie Theatre Royal for the first time to-night. Support big the star film there will" be a firf't-cl"s., selection o l ' popular cinema hliMs. Ihe usual prices of admission will be charged and si-.its mav be booked at IMjnauuV ' j