AMUSEMENTS.

Evening Star, Issue 13145, 29 December 1908, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

WIDE WORLD PICTURES. The Wide World Pictures drew another large audience at the Princess Theatre last evening. The present programme is an excellent one in every respect, and among the pictures shown are subjects to suit all tastes. The. film entitled 'The Bee and the Rose' is a very beautiful one, the coloring being very skilfully done. The present programme will be repeated for two more nights. BLAND HOLT. „ Mr Bland Holt and his competent company have been in tliia City for quite a long tune, no far as visits from theatrical people S°> b "t there is not the faintest ind'cation that they are outstaving their welcome. J.Efit night His Majesty's Theatre was crowded with an audience who watched v_:th unflagging interest the unfolding of that thrilling drama 'The Great Rescue,' and acknowledged with enthusiasm the efforts of the members of the compauy and the splendid work of the stage mechanist. Ihe Great Rescue' will be played lor tie last time to-night WEST'S PICTURES. The new programme presented at the \\- nambra Theatre to a large audience by Wests company last evening was an excellent one, and was fully appreciated by those present Pictures to suit all tastes were screened. A large ami capable orchestral hand supplied suitable music. The same series will be shown to-night. GAELIC SOCIETY. A meeting of the Committee of the Gaelic Society was held last night to further prosecute arrangements for the annual ceilidh on January 6. II is intended to present an attractive programme of Gaelic and Scottish songs, Highland dances, and bagpipe music. ° r l MADAME ADA CROSSLEY. The visit of Madame Ada, Crossley and her company to Dunedin is looked forward to by the public with great enthusiasm. Two concerts will be given in the Garrison Hall on Saturday and -Monday next. The box. plan was opened this morning, and a large number of seats have already been reserved. The sale of tickets for the unreserved seats is also progressing at the Dresden and at Jacobs's, and full houses are assured. In speaking of Madame Crossley s voice, the critic of the ' Sydney Morning Herald' remarks: "The Australian contralto exhibits a heavier quality than she did five years ago . . . whilst she still Tetains the heart-reaching svmpathy of expression which has made he/one of the great singers of our day." Mr John Harrison, the celebrated English tenor, who has come to Australia as a member of Madame Ada Crossley's concert party, has attained the highest distinction in his profession. His career is romantic in the extreme. Originally he was working at a cctton-mill at C'olne, Lancashire, where he was born thirty years ago. There he joined a choir and occasionally sang at local concerts. Mrs Clegg, a lady of refined musical tastes, offered to help the gifted youth to obtain a proper vocal training, and sought the advice of Santley, who also perceived a great future in Mr Harrison. All anticipations of Mr Harrison's friends were realised when he rose to the position of tenor at Govent Garden and sang Hein- | rich in ' Tannhauser,' to the delight of the | public and the admiration of the critics. As a singer in oratorio, Mr Harrison occupies a pre-eminent position al6o, while he is the idol of the melody-loving public of Great Britain. THE KILTIES' BAND. The management of the " Kilties" have decided to pay a return visit to Dunedin, and the reason, will open at His Majesty's ', ' Theatre on Monday next. Since the close of the first season of this Canadian band !in Dunedin a tour of South Otago has been undertaken, and was marked ,by that complete success which i has been so pivnounced a characteristic of 1 the tour from one end of the Dominion to the other. Even-where the playing of the "Kilties" has aroused enthusiasm, and their reappearance in Dunedin for a farewell season will be hailed with satisfaction by many who have recollections of the previous i concerts, and also by others who were de- ! barred the pleasure of attending formerly. There is every prospect, therefore, of liberal patronage being bestowed, and that Mr Power and his musicians and dancers will receive that reward which their merit deserves. Each night a completely new programme of selections will be submitted. KAIKORAI BAND. The second of the series of open-air entertainments inaugurated by the above band will be given to-morrow night at the Carisbrcok Ground, commencing at eight o'clock. The band have engaged several artists, and we are assured that in connection with tho : biograph entertainment everything wity be iin working order. At the" rehearsal last j night everything passed off successfully.