ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1710, 10 January 1920, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

, KOSY. Tom Mix in “Treat ’Em Rough” is to be shown again to-night at the Kosy with a good 5-act Fox drama, “Married in Haste,” and the popular serial. EVERYBODY’S. “They’re Off,” the picture showing at Everybody’s this week, is a racing drama by Goldwyn entitled “The Racing Strain.” The race scenes and the whole play are put on in a most exciting manner. PALACE. Emmett Corrigan, a new Metro actor, will bo seen for to-night only in a 6-act play, “Greater Love Hath No Man.” It is a story of a man who took upon himself the consequences of another’s crime. VAUDEVILLE. COMING TO THE PALACE. An innovation in the way of an all vaudeville entertainment, will bo introduced at the Palace for three nights, commencing on Thursday next. The combination is a strong one, with Alsace, a musician who ranks as one of the best that over appeared in the Dominion. He has appeared in all the principal theatres of Great Britain and the Continent, and later, while the war was on, in America,, where ho wills the tot)-lincr in all the best music halls. On the violin he plays some of the most popular of operatic gems in a masterful manner, and is equally at home on the ’cello; as a. novelty he plays the latest ragtimes and Hawaiian hulas on the “Alsacephone,” an instrument described bv the press as “a violin with a human voice.” The Royal logos, who have previously appeared in our town, will put on their famous “Slide for Life act, which has never failed to create a sensation, in addition to an up-to-date iu-gling act. Wendy Dale and Alphonse lately with Fullers’) arc clever sketch artists with clever song and patter, and also introduce some live work at the piano. Miss Lalla Knight, a lyric soprano, who appears tor the first tune in Now a land, will sing the newest .and most favoured songs, while La Bello Undine w l dance her way into the hearts of the audience by her clever dancing. Miss U, Hana Mitsu is solo pianist with the troupe, which should give a good account of themselves. The box plan opens at the HObj on Tuesday morning. WILLIAMSON’S COMIC OPERA.

“YES UNCLE.”

During the coming season of the J. C. Williamson (nusical comedy company to I almerston North, which opens on i'rjoay next, is promised the production res Uncle,” which at present is the reigning musical comedy attraction in London, the music in “Yes Uncle” is said to be dcligh - fully fascinating and tuneful, the plot is unique, the dialogue particularly clover ana the authors have provided the comedians with an abundance, of material witn which to create merriment. Mr Harry B. Bur(•her, the well known producer, lias been hard at work on the new operas for some time, and the ballet mistress, Miss Minnie Hooper, lias, it is said, created some beautiful • ballets. Thousands of pounds have,. it is stated, been expended on now and magnificent dresses, and the scenery and electrical effect are features of tho new production. The cast has been selected with every care, and besides containing all the tavoudjfos who lust toured New Zealand with “Going Up,” tho ranks of the New English Musical Comedy Company have been strengthened by some new personalities,. including Miss Marie Eaton, Miss Flone Allen and Miss Millie Engler. Thecast of “Yes Unclg.*' includes Messrs William Greene, Field Fisher, George Willoughby, Cyril Richard, Pirie Bush, Jack Hooker and Alfred Frith, also the Misses Gracio Lavers, Madgo Elliott., Cecil Bradley. Says a leading Dramatic Critic _of “Yes Thiele” :—“He who hesitates it lost and so is ho who ventures to think seriously for even two seconds during the performance of “Yes Undo,” tho latest musical faice in the repertoire of J. C. Wiliamson’s popular New Comic Opera Company. There is a plot from which is suspended speciality upon speciality. Catchy tunes, and bright dancing, there are outstanding memories after the performance. The all-fav-ourites cast has never been better or more brightly suited. An old favourite with the public returns to the J. C. Wiliamson banner in “Yes Uncle”. This is Miss Marie Eaton, who was identified with the fortunes of this combination a few years back in the days of “So Long Letty.” Miss Eaton is appropriately cast for the role of an impulsive Spanish beauty, who seeking for a lost fiancee falls a victim to the love of his millionare unde. Miss Eaton has some brilliant vocal numbers which reveal her .at her very best. NEW SOUTH WALES STATE ORCHESTRA.

In view of the approaching visit of tho New South Wales State Orchestra to Palmerston North on January 19, under Henri Vorbrugghcn, the following article, from tho Adelaide Critic of September 24, 1919, is of interest. It referred to the approaching visit of the orchestra to Adelaide: —Spare of build, but virile, full of personality, and the quicksilver of genius, Henri Vorbrugghcn is the “big stick” ot Australian music to-day. Thorough in all he undertakes, persistent in the pursuit of his ideals, master of his art and practice, tho great “Little Belgian” has seized trig imagination of tho eastern ’ States like, no other musical man of recent times. Quick, alert and decisive, he leads his orchestra through the tempest of groat chords and massive effects to the gentle ripples of dc- j lightful piamssimos. To hear Verbrugghen’s orchestra is an experience tc bo envied; | but to see this little man with the dynamic force of a gnCat conduct it is a lesson never to be forgotten. Hero you have tho plastic touch of a moulder of minds. He transmits the fire within, and in the earnest face of every player is seen reflected the mood and manner of the controlling force. Yes! The orchestra does play, and play well, for tho very head and front of its interpretation is the knowledge begotten of close study, and the art of. taking infinite pains! Vorbrugghcn fought, and never wavered, until the Now South Wales Government stepped out from the musical rut of Australia to lead tho Commonwealth by establishing an annual grant of £14,000 for the maintenance and equipment of a Stale Orchestra worthy of a great city. Its fame soon spread. It came as a revelation to Sydney, and lifted her to the pinnacle of Australian musical eminence.