ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1921, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

SIGNOR NOTARIELLO. FAMOUS TENOR APPEARS TO-NIGHT. To-night, in the Empire Theatre, the eagerly-awaited concert by Antonio Notariello will take place. This brilliant young Italian operatic tenor, who has been engaged for an Australasian tour by A. P. Truda, has had a most remarkable scholastic pareer. At the age of seventeen he won an entrance scholarship to the Royal Conservatorium of Music, Naples. During the five years of his studies there he put up the remarkable record of obtaining maximum marks at every examination, and concluded by winning the Coservatorium prize of 5000 francs in a field of 38 competitors. Two seasons at the Theatre Constanza, Rome, followed, and his work in such operas as “The Barber of Seville,” “Traviata,” and “Lucia de Lammermoor” led the Italian musical critics to declare that he had won his -way to the topmost rung of the ladder as one of t-Ke world’s greatest tenor singers. An eclectic programme for to-night is advertised. Attractive support will be furnished by Mr. Gordon .Short and Miss Ray Fox. Mr. Short is said to be one of the leading pianists of modern times. ■Miss Fox is regarded as the finest violinist in New Zealand at the present day. The management feels justly proud in introducing this imiqv<<r"concert combination to New Plymouth musiclovers. The tour has been a succession of triumphs from the initial concert in Auckland, and it is confidently anticipated that New Plymouth will be as enthusiastically responsive as other New Zealand towns to the enterprise that has made such a visit possible. Seats may be booked at Collier’s. THE PEOPLE’S. LAST NIGHT OF BUCK JONES. One more opportunity remains to see “Two Moons,” the latest William Fox play, starring cowboy Buck Jones. The picture will end its run at the People’s to-night. Jones is fast winning an enviable following not only as a daredevil, but as a capable and versatile actor of high quality. “Two Moons” is a story of a great love that developed from bitter hatred during the feud of the cattle barons and sheep men of Wyoming. Carol Holloway supports Jones in the role of Hilma Ring, a sheep man’s madcap daughter. Harold Goodwyn appears in "Oliver Twist,” a real Charles Dickens picture, and Fox Gazettes are also shown. To-morrow’s change presents a big 7-reel all-British Welsh-Pearson film “Nothing Else Matters,” featuring a trio of (England’s leading artists, Betty Balfour, Moyna McGill and Hugh Wright.

EVERYBODY’S. ELAINE KAMMERSTEIN IN “THE PLEASURE SEEKERS.” Colourful and sympathetic, and at the same time thoroughly convincing, is Elaine Kammerstein’s interpretation of the arduous stellar role in her latest Selznick production. “Pleasure Seekers.*’ commencing at Everybody’s to-night. The young bride’s strategy in surmounting the prejudices of her young husband’s father against herself and womankind. is at once charming and amusing. In direct contrast is the star’s work in the more highly dramatic moments. such as the big scene where she visits her rival’s home, and persuades her husband to return to her and give up the wandering habit, in this she rises to heights of intensity that none of her previous production have attained. (Elaine Hammerstein has qualified, by hard and good work, for the title of star, and no picture emphasises this more than this present one. The bill includes gazette, comedy, and “Bride 13.” THE CHERNIAVSKY TRIO. BRILLIANT RUSSIAN INSTRUMENTALISTS. There are few more remarkable figures in the musical world to-day than the Cherniavsky classical trio —Leo (violin), Jan (piano), and Mischel (’cello). Australian and New Zealand people have a peculiar interest in these eminent young musicians, for it was in these two countries that much of their early fame was established. This was over twelve years ago, when, as boy prodigies, they created overwhelming enthusiasm by their brilliant and finished performances of the most advanced musical literature. Following their Australasian tours, the Chernievskys played in all the art-cen-tres of Europe with phenomenal success. Tn London, Paris, Vienna, and Berlin, which were all visited in turn, the critics were most extravagant in their pronouncements. The London Standard said: “The Cherniavsky brothers are three of the most remarkable young men in the world of music.” These talented young soloists have toured almost every country in the world. South Africa, India, China, Egypt, Straits Settlements, South America, Canada, the United States, the Hawaiian Islands, and other countries have all paid enthusiastic tribute to their genius. A few months ago Mischel, the ’cellist, fulfilled an important engagament in the Queen’s Hall, London, with .Sir Henry Wood’s orchestra. The critics proclaimed him to be one of the most brilliant instrumentalists to appear in London for many seasons. Messrs. J. and N. Tait, to whom New Zealaders are indebted for almost all the star attractions of the past fifteen years, have arranged for another tour of the Dominion by these famous artists. A concert will be given in the Empire Theatre, ISew Plymouth, *on Monday evening next . The plan opens at Collier’s next Friday The Stratford concert takes place next Saturday evening, August 13.