AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10042, 12 May 1910, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

fISE JUBILEE SINGERS.*

TOWN HALL TO-NIGHT.

To-night at, the Town Hall that popular band of coloured Americans will commence a two night season. A fine array of musical talent will • contribute a diversified programme • calculated to suit all tastes. Rollicking "horuses. tuneful plantation melodie?, musical sketches, glees and medleys, will comprise the concerted portion for which the Fisks are so famous. The soloists will be Miss Belie F. Gibbons, the remarkable lady baritone; Mr H. R. Collins, • w'uo specialises in quaint and charming coon songs; Mr Sydney Haynes, the pleasing tsnor; Miss Bertha Haynes-Miller, soprano; Miss Alice Baptist, mezzo-soprano; while Miss >Flu Dixie and Mr E. R. Martin will respectively contribute banjo and solos. Seats, may be reserved at Miss Rive's.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES, This evening the usual change of •programme will be presented at the Foresters' Hall. The new series will -include "His Wife's Visitor/' -'The 'Honour of an Alpine ijuide," "Led Astray, or a Pictorial Version of East Lynne." "A Race for a Handkerchief," and Edison's latest dramatic film "The Lie." The firßt of the ■Tbampson-Payne verse competitions has drawn a large number of competitors. Some slight misunderstanding has occurred as to which title was to be mentioned. The management state that "The Lady From Mellon's" was the correct one. Such ajlarge percentage of competitors having in mistake used "His 'Wife's Visitor" as the title, Mr Pearson has put them in as a separate contest, and will give a special ►prize of 53 to the winner. The winners in both competitions will be announced on the screen on Friday next.