ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 18 June 1913, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE

"THE WORLD'S PICTURES^*

A compMe change of programme will be made at the Opera House to-night. The star attraction is a cleverly staged drama of circus life by the Fasquali Company, entitled. "From the Regions of Darkness,"., whig./-hin.. the- dramatic section will be supported by "The Warning Ha;iKl,V7Essanay "drama, and tHe subject of an, interesting: story in the November Motion Picture Magazine, "The Strike" (Solax), and "Face to Face with a Leopard:'.'; lUtrOns desiring good seats ,sh»3ild ?. book: them '■ bj telephoni-ftt: to the theatre; No. 125. ".'

HUG.ARD'S WONDERFUL SHOW

~. Probably, there is.no country, in the world that- appeals to: the • ordinary mind more thnyi the . : wonderful East, • the cradles >land *- of, majtie..*-.With 'its' romance. it«'-.mysteries', "'its.'glamor, ■it holds a position clearly-itsl'owh, "amUthe'\ student of the,-elements ofj'- the-- occult finds -scope there -for; studied impossible )to fret'in any other part- of; the;, world. .■At ;thc Opora ..House on :;June 23. iov rtri twb-nisht.'sexisori^' thY East^ will be brought vividly before the public's oyes in the performance of the magician Chi-'g Sung Soo and his assistants, in the world-famed .act. "A Night,in a Chfne.se .■Palace.". • Seventy min.nte.s in the;.'second paijt of v ■the programme.is given' to this 'act, .and they are described -ns seventy minutes in wonderland. Not a word is xspoken. yet the audience fs held, spelt, bound by the marvels shown '. them. Trick after trick, illusion after Illusion follows each other in rapid succession, and the audience has hardly; time to wonder how it is done when-! another marvel is sprirtig upon them. In the first part Hugard will perform bis great rifle feat and *nve an exnosftion of_s!eight-ojyigjixL,_.&r-iv.hieh- he- is world-famed, heing acknowledged as one of the peers *ofi sbis? fprofessioft..' )&' marvellous exhihitiqnicK [the I Black 'Art will also be given, which is absolutely new to New -audiences^ v Mi^ss Myra Erringtou' will a^so'appear.in" her. novelty musical1 ait.: \V.hicl\ has .received great nraise.■' "A Prices;" box 'plan, .arid day sales are advertised."" !t; l■ '•