ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4866, 11 May 1918, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

PALACE PICTURES

•HE FISK JUBILEE SINGERS

It is announced in our advertising columns that the Fisk Jubilee Singers will appear at His Majesty’s Theatre on Thursday next, the 16th inst. Since the last appearance in New Zealand of Die Fisks, the comb ination has been re-organised by Prof. C. A. "White who, with Miss Belle Gibbons (the only lady baritone in the world) are members of the old original company which first visited New Zealand some 30 years ago. The present company numbers ten artists and their work in glees, jubilee choruses, part singing and solos together with humorous quartets, coon ditties and up-to-date ragtime sketches, is said to be admirable. “Their singing reminds one of a huge organ, in its dying and swelling tones, in fact -'the whole musical treat makes one admit that the Fisk Jubilee Singers stand alone.” ?’he Fisks have just concluded a highly successful season throughout Australia, meeting with phenomenal success everywhere. the box plan for the Gisborne season will open on Monday next at Miller’s.

OPERA HOUSE

The most original drama seen upon the screen this year is found m Ihe Clodhopper,” the Triangle feature to be screened at the Opera House tonight. Charles Ray is the star, and his role is one that will make him a public favorite with every picturegoer. He is supported by Margery . Wilson, who is the sweetheart to whom he says good-bye when he goes off to the city -to seek his fortune. He eventually discovers a janitor's job. He went awkwardly m and landed in amongst the rehearsal of a musical comedy that was going flat. Somebody pushed him hard and he fell among twenty-four girls in a haystack. Then the director saw his opportunity and made Charlie dance. The dance, christened “The Cloclhop,” became the rage of fashionable New York, and the youth’s fortune was made. The rest of the story is highly dramatSfc. and Well worth seeing. The setting is something to be wondered iat, particularly the scenes Bet among the roof garden entertainment places or New York, where the interiors are gorgeous in the extreme. There is a particularly strong supporting cast, and! the chorus of beaut.es deserve special remark. “The Rathe Gazette,” “'South-western Texas” (scenic), and a rattling good Keystone comedy, “Done in Oils,” completes the programme.

Patrons of the Palace, to-day and to-night, will be regaled With a sumptuous programme. The star feature is Metro’s latest six-reel feature, “Paradise Garden,” with Harold Lockwood in the lead, whilst the supporting films include a beautiful stereo-scenic-. “Burnham Beaches.” the “Co-operative Weekly,” and the seventh episode of the startling serial, “The Purple Domino.” In “Paradise Garden,” the popular star, Harold Lockwood, has an unusually attractive feature. Jerry Benham—Harold Lockwood—is, by the terms of his father’s will, brought up in ignorance of the fact that there are any women in the world, and he grows up to be a superb young animal. Una Habberton, a sweet, wholesome girl, wanders into his “Paradise,” and the two become great friends. But later, he meets Marcia Van Wyck, of the “idle rich and morally! careless” type. Through her he learns the meaning of evil. How he regains his “Paradise’' through love _of a -pure woman is cleverly told in this fascinating photo-drama, which is a screen version of George Gibbs’ great novel, “Paradise Garden.” Harold Lockwood again scores heavily in this latest Metro. Lockwood is always pleasing; he is doubly 30 in this fine six-reel super-lea tnre rs the innocent hut manly young fel’ow who faces the world', without 'any knowledge of sex or sin. “The Purple Domino” is of an. exceptionally exciting character, and followers of this serial are guaranteed a. full quota of thrills. . “The Neglected Wife” (chapter two) will a 1 so be screened at to-day’s matinee.

EVERYBODY’S.

The worries of a man who. alternates between a hero and a villain are the main features of “Double Trouble,” the Triangle drama starring Douglas Fairbanks now' screening at Everybody’s to-day. Flqrian Amidon is a gentle timid banker, whose accident invests him with another personality, and he • becomes Eugene Brassfield, a sporting unscrupulous loud-voiced -nolitician, who is, however, extraordinarily successful. Amidon’s finance discovers him, and an original set of circumstances arises owing to the antics of the man she thought so trustworthy and righteous. A medium is introduced whose hypnotic influence switches Brassfield back to Amidon and so on. Douglas Fairbanks puts up a triumphal performance in liis portrayal of the two opposing characters, liis changes of facial expression being little short of marvellous. The end is good, and the whole May is one-of the cleverest ever made by Fairbanks. The two girls of tlio play' deserve special mention. They are Margery Wilson and Gladys Brockwell, the latter being “Strawberry.” the more than free and easy sweetheart of the wicked side of the hero. A splendid supoorting programme, including the second to last episode of “The Secret Kingdom,*’ accompanies this Triangle feature.