ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1919, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE TE KOAS. i After a phenomenally successful season in Auckland the Te Koa concert party, constituted by returned soldiers, will play in New Plymouth for a two night season at the Empire next Monday and Tuesday. The party is composed of vocalists and elocutionists, together with light comedians, claiming a standard equal, if not above, that of any one concert party that has yet played in the Dominion. The company's season in Auckland was marked with intense enthusiasm, the audiences from night to night clamoring for return numbers. Mr Owen Pritchard, the comedian of the party, is, according to Auckland critics, in his class of work unapproachable as regards humor, while at the same time he is said to possess the happy faculty of keeping his aturienco in smiles from the moment the curtain is drawn to its ringing down. Mr Stanley Pritchard, a vocalist of fine quality, also greatly impressed Auckland theatregoers, possessing a "rich baritone voice which is heard to full advantage in his various straight numbers. A tenor of note, and one enjoying all-round popularity is Mr Victor Elliott, whose tenor voice is excellently suited to his choice of items. Mr Elliott is well known throughout Australia on the concert platform, and has evidently lost little of his vocalisin, despite strenuous years of active service. Miss Tue Hillyer, the soprßno of the company, has enjoyed the privilege of many recalls during tne Auckland season and has been the recipient of many complimentary reterences from leading musical critics. Also in the Te Koas are Mr Wally Edwards, whp plays the part of a soubrette with surprising finish and color; Mr Les. Walton whose work is mainly confined to recitative matter, and who is esteemed in his class as a front-rank artist; and Mr Harvey Bowley, whose efforts as accompanist is stated to be equal to that cf any concert pianist who has yet visited the Dominion. The box plan is now! open at Collier's.

.EVERYBODY'S. THE STORY OF A HOMELESS WAIF. "CASSIDY." What is probably the finest acting on the screen yet witnessed is seen in "Cassidy," showing to-night and to-mor-row at both sessions at Everybody's. The star is Dick Rosson, and the fact that he is as yet fairly new to picture fans, need not detract from the fact that his portrayal of Cassidy is reckoned in America as a perfect conception of the part. As a social outcast, waif, consumptive, weak and hungry, and ready to commit any'crime for the price of the fare back to what he calls "do big burg," by a strange stroke of fate lie selects'the house of the district attorney to break into. The attorney has a human heart, and after hearing his story, lets him go, and gives him the fare to New York. On his way he hears of the capture ol the daughter of his benefactor by a white slave gang, and rescues her, sacrificing his life in the act.

;' THE PEOPLE'S. *A WIFE BY PROXY." The delightful and versatile star, Mabel Taliaferro, appears finally tonight at the People's in the fine Metro play, "A Wife by Proxy." The latest Gazette, Christie comedy and Interest films are also shown. BIG COMEDY TO-MORROW. One of the chief comedy successes of the last dramatic season is "The Gypsy Trail," starring Bryant Washburn, who makes his how to-morrow, commencing at the matinee, in Paramount pictures. It is a story with rattling good comedy situations.

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