ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 243, 30 September 1911, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

KING S THEATRE. HASTINGS

A fair audience witnessed the final screening of “ The Mystery of a Hansom Call ” programme. The change of programme this evening includes several pictures of very high merit. Naturalists are well catered for in “The Great Centipede.” This is a must instructive picture, and should suit the audience. Dramas of merit are “Vanity and its Cure,” “ The Insurrecto,” “ The Planter’s Life,” and “ Fighting Blood." Patlie's latest Gazette will also he shown. It consists oi’some of the latest doings at Home, and also shows the ladies the latest fashions in Paris. The comedies and comics are of a high-class, and should move most people. THE ROYAL COMIC OPERA CO. “OUR MISS GIBBS." On Friday next the members of Mr. J. C. Williamson’s Royal Comic Opera Company will show us what they .*aa do in the latest and most successful piece from the London Gaiety Theatre. I’he performance will be the introduction of “ Our Miss Gibbs ” to Hastings. For the part of Miss Mary Gibbs, the shop-girl heroine, Miss Blanche Browne was brought out from Home. From the first night of her appearance in Australia Miss Browne became '.tie vogue. It is freely admitted that no other artist in musical comedy has ever ingratiated herself into popularity as this delightfully refreshing actress has succeed 'd in doing in Australia. “Our Miss Gibbs " is one of the big London Gaiety triumphs; it is in its third year in that city, and is as popular as ever. In Australia no musical play has been within measureable distance so successful. A run of 81 months at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, is. on a population basis, equal to a run of two years in London. During the Sydney season no fewer than 516.000 persons paid for admission —more than the entire population of Sydney itself. “ Our Miss Gibbs " has indelibly stamped itself as the luck-bringer of the Royal Comic ()p-ra Company: As to the costuming of the play, it is said that nothing that the firm has ever done comes up to the lavish display to be seen in “ Our Miss Gibbs ’’ in the way of costuming. Over £IOIXI was spent on dresses, the bulk of which were made by the most prominent Parisian houses. Ate are given to understand that the dialogue of the plav is especially brilliant, it being in this respect the best of its class written for inanv years. The company numbers 110 people, carries an orchestra of grand operatic proportions, anti includes the Royal Balletnias. The box plan will be qpenetl at Hall s, Hastings, on Tuesday next.