ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1921, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. “THE BRAND OF LOPEZ.” In “The Brand of Lopez,” his new production, Sessue Hayakawa assumes arole which frankly is a departure from the usual, and which will prove a novelty when it is seen at Everybody’s today. The central role in the picture played by Hayakawa is not made ideal, but filled with the most natural human motive. The bill includes gazette, comedy, and travelog, and the matinee today commences at 2 p.m. Constance Talmadge has joined the chorus. Her latest picture, “Two Weeks,” will be shown at Everybody’s on Monday. The theme is the rise of said chorus girl to stardom, and her renunciation of a career for a mere man and a home, after she has spent the whole of the “Two Weeks” trying to make an impression on him. THE PEOPLE’S. OWEN MOORE IN “THE POOR SIMP.” Comedy-dramas as clever as “The Poor Simp,” commencing to-day at the People’s, are rare. It abounds in wholesome, effortless humor, and can be relied upon to please almost any type of spectator. An original slant on the fall-ing-in-love thqme, it shows the purely laughable side of being victimised sentimentally.

THE EMPIRE. FASHION PLATE DANDIES, The New Zealand Times says of the Fashion Plate Dandies:—“ln the past the enterprise of Mr. John Hopkins has been responsible for providing Wellington play-goers with much pleasing entertainment. He knows to a nicety the taste of people and models his companies with a view to presenting clean, crisp programmes. In respect of his latest little coterie of entertainers he is to be commended. Under the title of “The Fashion Plate Dandies,” they made, their initial appearance at the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall on Saturday night, when a large audience gave marked expressions of approval of the bright little company. Nothing more sparkling with clean humor and a pretty turn of wit could be conceived than their quaint ensembles and light concerted numbers. In this class of work the Fashion Plates excel, and it is a distinct and added pleasure to find that a field of originality has been exploited, and there is a freshness in both material and presentation. In individual items each member displays talent of a high standard, and enters whole-heartedly into the numbers whether it be song, story or dance. A spirit of lightsome gaiety permeates the show, and so well has the producer, Miss Lenore Graham, done her work that the happiness of the players is infectious to the audience. A pleasing combination, the Fashion Plata Dandies will assuredly claim the attention of lovers of a night’s clean entertainment.” This excellent company will appear in the Empire Theatre next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The plan is at Collier’s. Other Taranaki dates are advertised. NEW PLYMOUTH COURTIERS COSTUME COMEDY CO. “THE BRAN PIE.” The news that on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 16, 17 and 18, the New Plymouth Courtiers Costume Comedy Co. will stage their unique performance, “The Bran Pie.” will bring joy to all New Plymouth tlieatre-goers. The local company has for its object the keeping alive and active the taste for music in operatic form, and for the last three months the members have been enthusiastically giving their time, labor and money in the endeavor to provide local music lovers and playgoers with a first-class production in revue form—“ The Bran Pie,”

It had been hoped to re-form the New Plymouth Operatic Society, which had such great successes in their performances of “The Country Girl,” “Geisha,” and “San Toy” in the old Theatre Royal, but lack of sufficient stage room in our present theatres does not permit.

»Some of the members of the Courtiers’ Co. have had considerable experience in comedy costume work, and the splendid fare in music, scenas, burlesques, and dancing they are offering should draw bumper houses.

The company has invested in new scenery, curtains and stage settings, which will, be equal to any hitherto seen in New Plymouth. Still another feature of “The Bran Pie” will be the Courtiers’ Orchestra of eight instrumentalists, which will play accompaniments for all the numbers.

Box plans for the season will open at Collier’s Music Warehouse on Monday, June 13, and the prices charged should be as popular as the revue. It is the intention of the company to produce “Bran Pie” at Waitara, Inglewood, and Stratford at later dates*