ENTERTAINMENTS

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4593, 20 May 1922, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

LIONEL BARRYMORE AT THE . LYCEUM. “The Great Adventure,” starring Lionel Barrymore, to bo shown again 1 at the Lyceum to-night, is adapted from Arnold Bennett’s famous play of the same name. In it Lionel Barrymore is seen in a new role, for it is a comedy. An eccentric artist, in order to elude a celebrity hunter with matrimony as her object, conceals his identity by posing as bis dead valet. Boris Rankin (Mrs Barrymore) is the loading lady. The serial, a Graphic, and a comedy, make up a big bill. Monday : ‘ ‘Man—AVoman—Marriage.” This smashing 9-part First National play traces the ascendancy of the sex through the opalescent haze of mythology, down through the centuries to the present. It depicts courtship, marriage, and the fiery furnace of inevitable misunderstandings which occur when wealth, power, and alienation estrange the man from liis life partner, woman. Throughout this story of the ages, the same principals, Dorothy Phillips and James Kirkwood, assisted by a cast that runs into thousands, play tho parts of lovers, tho husband and the wife. “THE GREAT IMPERSONATION” AT EVERYBODY’S. Produced from tho novel by E. Phillips Oppenhcim, “The Great Impersonation,” to get its final showing at the Oddfellows’ Hall to-night, this is not only a good adaptation, but a very fine production. A good spy and mystery story is always popular, and Opponheim is a master of his particular type. The settings are lavish throughout, the acting is on a high level. James Kirkwood, who plays tho dual role of Sir Everard and Lieut. Ragastein, is excellent. Ann Forrest, as his wife, is fine. This star attraction, of 7000 feet, has recorded big houses everywhere. A Sennett comedy supports it. On Monday there will be a big Fox double bill.

FINAL CONCERT OF ALSACE CO. TO-NIGHT. Thero was another very highly appreciative audience at the Drill llall last night, and the peoplo who attended had their reward, for the Alsace Concert Company, or classical vaudeville (under which the entertainment is classified by tlie management), headed by the Rev Papakura and Madame Rena To Au, presented another most attractive and interesting programme of the superior popular order, far removed from the ordinary run of vaudeville shows. For some years we have known Madame To Au ns a most charming and cultured singer, and if anything her art has matured since we last heard her in Wellington. This lady is the finest Maori soprano New Zealand has known. Her voice has all the native sympathy in tone allied to a culture, and she has charm. So also has Mr Papakura, with his pleasing tenor of good range and vibrant timbre. Ho sings easily, aijd with the highest ' intelligence in expression. The company also possess a clever singer in Miss Priscilla Greene, and a good reciter in Mr William Bailey, and they are good in combination. Then there is that very gifted and versatile instrumentalist, Mr ‘ Louis Alsace, a host in himself, and Miss Mari Coleni is a clever and charming accompanist. The final programme will be presented to-night, and en- ■ tit ely now selections.