ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 45, 4 February 1911, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

KING S THEATRE, HASTINGS

A varied and interesting change of programme will be shown at the King’s Theatre this evening. Among the subjects which it embraces are “The Watchman’s Daughter.” “John Graham’s Gold,” “Peg Woffington.” ’’His Just Deserts.” and “The Inconoclast” as dramas. The last-named picture is an A.B. masterpiece. There is also an industrial subject. “Sweet Making,” a sporting picture. “A Day with C. B. Fry's Mercury Boys,” and Pathe's Gazette No. 78. The comics are “Tontolini Somersaults” and Tweedledum's First Bicycie.”

EMPIRE PICTURES. NAPIER. Perhaps one of the best series of pictures ever exhibited in Napier was witnessed last night by the large audience who attended the Empire Theatre. Apart altogether from the interest that the pictures themselves possessed, the singing of Miss Mabel Fowler and Miss Edith Nevill, and the oboe selections of Mr. Chas. Norman, were well worth the price for admittance. Miss Mabel Fowler sang “Butterflies” (Corbett), “Goodbye ” (Tosti), and in reply to an insistent encore sang “ Grey Days.” Miss Fowler’s voice is the best we have heard for.some time, and its astonishing volume and richness will be long remembered by those who have heard her sing. Miss Edith Nevill sang “ Sing me to Sleep ” (Greene), and on being encored rendered “ There’s nae Luck aboot the Hoose.” Her singing is of a very high order, and elicited rounds of applause. Mr. Chas. Norman gave a very beautiful rendering of f ‘ll Bacio” (Arditi), and as an encore “ Annie Laurie.”

“Burnham Beeches” and “Scenes in British India” were excellent scenic films. “ The Sister’s Sacrice,” “A Noble Forgiveness,” “ The Hebrew Fugitive,” and “A Flash of Light ” were intensely interesting dramatic pictures. The “Flash of Light ’’ is one of the finest dramatic films shown in Napier. The same series of pictures will be screened to-night, and the Norman Concert Company will render several new numbers.

THOMPSON-PAYNE PICTURES. NAPIER. There was another good house at the Gaiety Theatre, Napier, last night to witness the present screening of pictures. A fine change, including many magnificent films, has been arranged for to-night.