ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 March 1925, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ETHEL OSBORN CONCERT TONIGHT.

Many notable singeis have come from tile studio of Mr Roland Foster, of the N.S.W. State Conservator-rum of Music, but it is safe to say that one who has the most general appeal to the musk public of New Zealand is Miss Ethel Osborn, whose voice of phenomenal range and delightful purity will once again captivate the audience in the Opera House to-night prior to her departure for Italy. To hear an operatic aria or a simple ballad sung by Miss Osborn is something that one does not forget. For this concert Miss Osborn wiil have the support of Win. Hunter,, tenor, Mr Tom Williams, a brilliant violinist, and an accomplished pianist, Madame Marie Borman, all of whom have come from Sydney with Miss Osborn. The box plan is at the Opera House boohing office. It has been arranged by the Male Voice Choir to give >\n item at the concert to-night as a compliment to Aliss Osborn, and Air Geo. Dick will play a flute obligato.

GRAND THEATRE. SHIRLEY MASON IN “THE GREAT DIAMOND MYSTERY.” A highly entertaining feature, starring Shirley Mason, the Wiliam' Fox Star, is promised to-night at the Grand Theatre. The atrtaction will be “The Great Diamond Mystery,” which, as it indicates, invblves a crime, two crimes, in fact, one being the theft of a great diamond, and the other the murder of a diamond broker. Tn this picture. Shirley Mason, playing the role of Ruth Winton, Author of a murder mystery story, is enabled to solve an actual mystery by putting to a test the theory that a. murderer always returns to the scene of his crime. The fact that her ability to prove her theory is the only wav in the world to save her sweetheart from the electric chair and herself from dishonour adds a. tremendous interest to the picture. “The Great Diamond Mystery” is reported to be an unusually fine Mason picture, with a surprise finish. The mystery remains through the picture. The supports include a Van Bibber production, entitled “The Fight,” a splendid educational, showing “Universities of the World,” and Fox’s World News. This programme will be transferred to the Opera House for to-morrow (Thursday) afternoon and evening.

K A PONG A PICTUR ES. TO-MORROW NIGHT, “THE SEA HAWK.” The mammoth super-production, “The ?.ea Hawk,” showing to-morrow night, is a picture of wonderful contrasts. From Devon, in England, whence. Sir Oliver Tressilian is kidnapped, the scenes change to the life of a galley slave aboard the old-time war galleys of the Barbary pirates. Next we find ourselves in Northern Africa, in the slave market where Jews and Turks \nd Arabs, bid for the wretched slaves; in the Sea Hawk’s desert palace; again at sea, watching desperate battles between the sea rovers and their victims. With a cast of 5000 players, including Milton Sills, Wallace Beery, and Enid Bennett; with four sea-going galleons

specially built to give life and reality the "great sea battles, there is produced a masterpiece of romance that carries an irresistible appeal to yogng and old.

EMPRESS PICTURES, NORMANBY. TO-NIGHT. A GREAT ATTRACTION. Few actresses, would have had the courage to attemtp to treat a role, or rather roles, as difficult and exacting as those which Aliss Frederick so masterfully portrays in “Salvage,” her most recent Robertson-Cole production, which will be. shown at the Empress Pictures, Normanby, to-night. In this drama Aliss Frederick is seen in two distinctly different characterisations as Bernice Ridgeway, a woman of strong character and powerful personality • and as Kate Alatin a pitiful wreck of humanity, sodden, bitter, with every fine instinct of a real woman obliterated, living out her existence in a great city’s slum. On the same programme the final episode of “The Fast Express’’ will be shown. On Wednesday next “The Sea Hawk” will b e presented, and patrons are strongly advised to book seats now at Galloway’s store. Further particulars will be advertised in this paper later.