ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1921, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

NEW PLYMOUTH MALE CHOIR, CONCERTS ON JUNE 2 & 3. By special engagement by the male choirs throughout New Zealand Miss Rosa Alba will make her bow to a New Plymouth audience on the above dates. Under date December 10 the Lithgow Mercury says: “The singing of Rosa Alba was masterful, grand music. It was the perfect expression of the singer’s art. Her songs told many stories and she made each one a real live thing. Her voice possesses everything the voice of an artist should possess. Paramount is its magnificent quality of tone. Programmed to give four songs, she gave the audience ten, but twenty would hardly have satisfied them.” The Sydney Morning Herald stated: “Her rich and glorious voice displayed a delicacy and beauty of style it is very difficult to describe.” Also appearing: Miss Gamman, elocutionist, winner of leading prizes in receqt Napier competitions; and Miss Leila Denby, pianist, of Ohristchureh, an artist unequalled in the southern city.

EVERYBODY’S. LAST NIGHT OF “TWO WEEKS.” Constance Talmadge has never appeared to better advantage than in her latest comedy “Two Weeks,” at Everybody’s. Her delightful personality brightens unmistakably the already bright novelties that the play reveals. “Two. Weeks” is a screen adaptation of Anthony Wharton’s play “At the Barn,” and though one would hardly consider it possible for the sprightly Constance to discover any new feminine moods, she certainly presents some new ones in this vehicle. Skilful workmanship is revealed in every foot of the film. The bill includes the big Larry Semon comedy “The Suitor,” gazette, and “Dragon’s Net.” To-morrow’s change presents Violet Hopson in “The Woman Wins,” a Broadwest all-British production. THE PEOPLE’S. KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN. After the war comes peace. After the storm comes sunshine. After the winter comes spring. After 200 miles of sin in film comes “Kathleen Mavourneen.” Theda Bara, who has vampired her way through two hundred miles of

motion pictures, has suffered a change of heart, and will be seen at the Peoples Theatre to-night as the heroine of the sweetest Irish love story ever told. This is “Kathleen Mavourneen,” a big William Fox special, written and directed by Charles J. Brabin, who was inspired by the old poem of the same name by Mrs. Julia Crawford, the Irish poetess. Miss Bara’s new role is one of sweet simplicity. It is said to be the most effective thing she has ever done. The bill includes Fox gazettes and the big “Sunshine” comedy “His Noisy Still.” THE EMPIRE. THE FASHION PLATE DANDIES.

Commencing next Thursday, at the Empire Theatre, Mr. John Hopkins will present his latest and most successful company of “Dandies,” who are designated by the title of “Fashion Plate Dandies.” The company consists of eight experienced and talented artists, and they have been referred to as the “Big, Eight,” not on account of their physical proportions, but by reason of their marked clevera«ss. The outstanding

feature of the new company is clean, wholesome comedy which makes a direct appeal to young and old, and the “.Fashion Plates”, present new and original sketches which have been specially written for them, and have been the chief reason of their big success in Wellington and Dunedin, in both of which towns their season has been an unqualified success. The company includes Rosa Walton, who will be favorably remembered by her work with the Cesaroni Concert Company, in delightful comedy songs at the piano, (she is described as the Australian Margaret Cooper, and well deserves the appellation); Miss Lenore Graham, a smart and vivacious comedienne, who is a popular favorite; Miss Wyn Faulkner, contralto: Wilfred Scott, an English baritone: Miss Christine Andrews, a Scottish soprano; Georga Titchener (an English comedian of high repute): Sydney Kingsley (tenor); and Will Keany (character comedian). The company will present an entirely new and original programme. New operatic vocal selections will play an important part in the programme, and a feature is made of smart, snappy interludes which lire, said to be quite different from the usual costume comedy company. The dressing and stage set-

ting form an important factor in the success of the entertainment, and patrons are promised a really good night’s amusement. The box plan opens on Tuesday, at Collier’s.