AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 199, 20 August 1904, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

a MONTGOMERY'S ENTERTAINERS. There was a good attendance at Montgomery's Entertainers' concert in His Majesty's theatre last night, and tho presence of some of the British and Auckland footballers added extra interest to the performance. A fine kineouatograph picture of the Bristol v. Gloucester football match was shown amongst the numerous films and was much applauded. The jugling of Zi-no won well deserved applause, and the antics of his comic assistant were extremely diverting. Mr Hall was also very amusing in his comic songs, and held the boards for a considerable space with encouragement from the audience. Mr E. Montgomery and the other members of the company were also very well received, and there should be another good attendance to-night, when the company gives another performance. PADEREWSKI. Aucklanders hardly ueed reminding of the coming of the world's greatest pianist, who arrives In Auckland on Monday week per the s.s. Westralia. The fame of Paderewski extends the world over, and now for the first time he comes to these distant lands. His marvellous playing captured the Australian public at once, and audiences of tSUOO and 7000 people assembled at each of his concerts iv Sydney and Melbourne, and hundreds were turned away from the doors with guineas and half-guin-eas in their hands. The Australian papers contain columns and columns of eulogistic notices, and we learn that the reception Paderewski received at his first concert was most enthusiastic. Cheer after cheer rang through the building, and the audience wonld not he satisfied. So spellbound were they that, after the recital was over, they hung about discussine the marvellous performance, loth to leave the building. The dates of the Auckland concerts, of which there can be positively two concerts only, are fixed for Wednesday. August 31. and Friday, September a and the box-plan for the guinea seats only opens on Monday morning at nine a.m. at Wildman, Lyell, and Arey's.