AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16946, 22 September 1920, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

theatre royal. A successful Christchurch season was conE '>L by the " Aussio Smart Sot house."" ihero vra3 . anoth er capacity

E'VAN'S-GAjN'GB SEASON,

MATINEE CONCEPT TO-DAY. V i « e A 8e00 ? i - oonoert ° £ Ule final series of Jaiss Amy Evans and Mr Frascr Gango will be given tlus afternoon in the Choral Hall, I commenciEg at 3 o'clock. .An entirely now l'«puna» win be presented. Miss Evans will sing HW Ye! Israel," the magnificent solo fiom Mendelssohn's oratorio "Elijah. • Ihis is the solo with which Miss Evans won lilts gTt ftt National Eisteddfod at Cardiff, when (a girl of only 14 years of age. It was on. this occasion Mr Bon Davies, UlO famous tenor, declared that Misa Evans had the greatest voico Wales had produced, and predicted a yreat future for her. Her other it-ems will be "Elegie," by Massenet; "Chanson fcorvegienne" (Fuudra.in), and "Murmurin .=. Breezee," by Jensen. Mr Fraser Gongo will sing Beethoven's "Adelaide," "Plaisier d Amour by Martini, and' Lidgey s out of the Night." Mr narold Elvins will also contribute several pianoforte solos. The box plans for the whole series of concerts are now on view at The Bristol. I

OPERA HOUSE

This weeks programme .at the Opera. House 13 a particularly fine one, and »t----another packed house last night. \\ ish Wynne, the renowned character'comedienne, heads tho bill, and the Harry .Burgess Co. present- tlieir revue, . "The Flyaway Girls." Excellent acts by La Rose and La ivose, BaJmus, Carlton Max, and Hall and Menzies, complete the programme. ,

LOWELL THOMAS'S TRAVELOGUE . TRIP. m

As a pictorial record of ono of the .most notable drives of the great world war, the historic films which .Lowell Tliomaß brought bacic- from the ifoly Land, which are to ho displayed for the first time in Christcuurch. at 'lie Theatre Koyal next Saturday night, caa hardly .be surpassed. Tho p'iotur.i? themselves are said to be enough to compel the keenest interest, and Mr Thomas' ability as a raconteur makes them entrancing in their graphic portrayal of the progressive steps of the notable campaign of i'ield-Marshal Allenby, The pictures include: Across . the Mediterranean to Malta and Egypt, from Cairo to Palestine by battleplane, looking down on the Pyramids from the sky, flying across the Suez Canal, trar veiling above the oldest road in the wcrid ftt' 100 miles an hour, sixty thousand camels, with the Anzac Light Horse and. the Imperial -Camel Corps* in the desert, driving l tho Turk 3 from Bebrsheba, the ancient home <o£ Abraham, the collapse of the Ottomans aid the restoration of the Caliphate, Thomas La wren oe, archaeologist, the capture' of Aleppo And the downfall of the Ottoman Empire, Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabia,' and the Holy Land til last froed after four hundred, years of oppression. The most remarkable feature of the travelogue is said to be the living beauty of the photographs, artistically coloured, and the unique character of the cinem-a. pictures from the sky. Incidentally e. moving picture of the landscape taken from an aeroplane doing a. spinning. nose tuve, is said to bo a hair-raising experience. But the whole travelogue is ono complete entertainment; for the story serves to illustrate tbo pictures, and tho pictures, cleverly synchronised, form an indispensable pait of the story. This travelogue will liaive its special appeal to everyone in a New Zealand audience. . The tour is under the direction of J. C Williamson, Ltd. The box plan opens this morning at Tho Bristol. GRAND THEATRE. A magnificent Salznick production, starring Eugene O'Brien, and entitled "The Per-

feet Lover," is being shown at the Grand this week. A Theda Bara picture, "The Rose of Blood," and a SunsTiine comedy complete the programme. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. Charming Irene Castles is the star in "The Amateur Wife," which is being shown at Everybody's Theatre this week. A second feature, "Counterfeit"' (Elsie Ferguson and David Powell), is also being screened. LIBERTY THEATRE, Tho producer is io be congratulated upou his excellent seroen adaptation of Steele Rudd's story, "On Our Selection." Before the serening Mr Lawrence Cowan recites "Tlib Old Sundowner." STRAND THEATRE. ! Big audiences witnessed "The Cyclone" (Tom Mis), and "Cowardice Court" (Peggy Hyland) at the Strand Theatre yesterday. CRYSTAL PALACE. The acrobatic Fred. Stone, in "Johnny Get Your Gun," and Vivian Martin, in •'Making' Her His Wife,'' were shown to delighted audiences at the Crystal Palace yesterday. QUEERS THEATRE. "Big Money,' 1 featuring James Knight, Rose Manners, and Chas>. llock, and "Infatuation." starring .the lato Gaby Deelys, are tho features of the current programme at the Queen's Theatre.