ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1922, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

BUCKMAND’OISLY CONCERT. TO-NIGHT AND MONDAY. The box office indications are that the Empire Theatre will be packed to the doors to-night, when New Zealand's world-famous prima donna, Miss Rosina Buckman, will make her reappearance ; here under the direction of Mr. E. J. ! Gravestock. In Auckland and Wellington Miss Buckman has had most gratifying receptions, the enthusiasm of the audiences knowing no hounds. Of the first concert in Auckland the Star says: “One of the most delightful concerts ever held in the Town Hall was given by Miss Rosina Buckman and her splendid supporting company on Saturday night. The audience was a large and expectant one. and awaited with unabated interest the reappearance of New Zeland’s famous prima donna after her phenomenal achievements abroad. Throughout the. evening the utmost enthusiasm prevailed, and music lovers had a long and glorious evening of perfect music perfectly interpreted.” A feature of these concerts are the operatic duets, sung in English, by Miss Buckman and Mr. IXOisly. The gramophone has rendered some of these duets universally familiar, which fact will lend interest to the hearing of them on the concert platform. To-night’s programme will include the famous dramatic duet from the fourth act of Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet,” in which the singers re-create the operatic atmosphere in a manner altogether umisual in concert work. There will also fie an exquisite duet, “Lovely Maid in the Moonlight,” from the first act of Puccini’s “La Boheme.” Miss Buckman’s solo numbers will include the favorite aria, “One Fine Day,” from “Madame Butterfly.” Miss Buckmaii’s greatest operatic success was made in the role of Butterfly, and her singing of this aria will be looked forward to with great interest. Her other numbers will be “The Lass with the Delicate Air” (Arne), “Butterfly Wings” and “O, Ship of My Delight,” both by Montague Phillips, and in response to numerous request, “Waiata Poi ’ and “Waiata Maori,” by New Zealand’s own composer, Alfred Hill. Mr. Maurice D’Oisly, who is regarded as one of England’s greatest tenors, will sing “Eleanore,” by Coleridge Taylor,” “Adieu du Matin.” by Emile Pessard, “Dolorosa,” by Montagu Phillips, and J. B. Weekerlin’s “Petronille.” On the instrumental side Miss Adelina Leon, a musician who enjoys great favor with ' London audiences, will play several cello solos. The accompaniments will be in the capable hands of Mr. Percy Kahn. The box plan is at Collier’s. EVERYBODY’S. MATINEE 2 P.M. TO-DAY. This afternoon at 2, and finally tonight at 8, will be the last two screenings of the big Carter de Haven comedy success, “My Lady Friends.” The same organisation that succeeded in turning out two of the best multiple reel comedy productions yet seen, “Twin Beds” and “The Girl in the Taxi,” made “My Lady Friends.” The story is of the sidesplitting variety depicting the misadventure which befalls Smith when his innocent relations with the three “lady friends” are brought to the attention of his trusting wife. Before he can extricate himself from the trouble, he has dragged the lawyer into it, with disastrous results.

Heralded as a veritable screen triumph, “The Sign on the Door. ’ starring the beautiul Norma Talmadge, will be the attraction at this theatre on Monday and Tuesday. Lovers of this popular star are promised a rare treat in this her latest and best feature. Miss Talmadge is in the role of a beautiful stenographer who, through no fault of her own, is compromised by her employer’s scapegrace son; later, marrying a man of honor and position, the fellow comes into her life again. In a struggle with the girl’s husband he is killed, and one of the most thrilling denouements ever screened follows her act of summoning the police and accusing herself of the murder. The climax is reached at the conclusion of a maze of sensational happenings that keep the audience in the throes of suspense from beginning to end. THE PEOPLE’S. EUGENE O’BRIEN IN “THE PROPHET’S PARADISE. ’ The feature picture at the People’s this afternoon and to-night is “The Prophet’s Paradise,” with Eugene O’Brien in the stellar role. The story concerns a young man travelling in the east who is lured to a secret slave market where he finds that a white girl is being auctioned. The manner in which he saves her from her captors, the perils that arise, and the way in which they arc separated and finally brought together, makes the •uiotodrama most interesting. The setting of the story is in Constantinople and many of the scenes are conducted with pomp, while the settings show a lavishness that is sure to delight all, the harem scene being particularly brilliant. The supporting pictures include the 7th episode of “Thunderbolt Jack.” KAPONGA PICTURES. “THE KID.” “The Kid,” Charlie Chaplin’s masterpiece of humor and pathos showing tomorrow afternoon and evening, has been hailed by Punch” and every critic since as supreme entertainment. Tf you love comedy you must see “The Kid”; if you enjoy pathos grounded in the richest things in life there is a treat awaiting you in this truly wonderful picture. Owing to the great demand for seats country patrons especially are advised not to miss the matinee.