AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 216, 11 September 1911, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

"OUR MISS GIBBS." i TO-NIGHT. • Tills evening at 7.45 Mr. ,T. C. Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company will appear i.ii tin; successful musical play "Our Miss Gibbs." No musical play or comic opera of recent years has succeeded in achieving the extraordinary popularity that lias been accorded to the musical comedy entitled "Our Miss Gibbs." There must be something extra magnetic in. a piece that can succeed in tilling the two theatres In which it was presented in Australia for over 12 months. The secret would appear to lay mainly in the fact of the all-round excellence of the performance, the charm of Miss Blanche Browne, and llie unusual brllliaucy of the play Itself. "Our Miss Gibbs" is to bo done here in the same manner exactly as in Australia, the company being Identically the same, and the scenery and Its effects a replica of the big Sydney and Melbourne productions. Numerically, it is said to lie the largest organisation that lias previously toured the Dominion with comic opera, and easily the most expensive to tile management. Besides Miss niamdio Browne, another eminent English artist, will make a first appearance here in the musical mascotte—-Mr. Bertie "Wright, principal comedian from the Gaiety Theatre, London, who will appear as "Timothy Gibbs," a humorous Yorkshire, man, with exaggerated musical tendencies. The music is by Ivan Oaryll and Lionel Moneton, which should he "sufficient guarantee as to its tunefulness and charm of character. It is claimed that the gowning in "Our Miss Gibbs" is of an exceptionally gorgeous nature the costumes in most cases having been made at several of the leading houses in Paris. It Is certain that. 110 other musical pla.v has been so expectantly Awaited, and it'is safe to say none so freely heralded as "Our Miss Gibbs. A great attendance during the season is a foregone conclusion The box plans for the first six nights are now open, at Wild man and AreyV. The performance will terminate at 11. .STEWART'S PICTURES. The T \-0.l Theatre to crowded on Saturday evening, when Stewart's new programme was presettled. 'J lie programme included the star picture "One Hundred Years Ago," a sensational Anglo-Australian romantic drama, produced under the diiecjtkm of Mr Gaston MxirvulOj mhl in 'wlikji the well known actors Godfrey Cass and Harry Beaumont took part, also Miss llarne Ireland >The scene is laid in the reign of George 111., and tells how a captain of the British Army is falsely accused of the theft of a diamond necklace and deported to IBotnny Bay. 'His sweetheart follows, and eventually gets her lover pardoned, and the real thief confesses. Particularly interesting in this picture is the life of the convict settlement, Botany Bay. Other good dramatic pictures were "Her Child's Honour," "Silver Cloud's Devotion," and "A Western Maiden," while the comic aud fjceuic subjects were of the best klud. OPERA BOUSE. The National Duo and the other artists attracted a good attendance to the Opera House on Saturday. A complete change is announced for this evening, when Yeruon and Muck will appear. STAR PICTURES. A new programme of pictures was shown at the Newmarket Hall on. Saturday, and was witnessed by a good attendance. I Among -tlie notable pictures was "The Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race," "The Law and the Man" (dramatic), "Stars nnd Stripes" (dramatic), "Her Indian Mother" (Indian dramatic, .while a varied series of scenic and camics were shown. PICTURE SHOWS. "The Tumbler's Wife" and the rest of a fine programme were witnessed >by a good number at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday. The programme including "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" was witnessed lor the last time at the King's Theatre on Saturday. A new programme will be shown this evening. THE RINKS. The Windsor, Prince's, and the Royal Ranks were w'' patronised by skaters 'on' Saturday.