ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 421, 12 June 1922, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

KOSINA BUCKMAX

i ‘ONCERT TO-NIGHT

No musical event in the history of Pul merston North has created more widespretu interest than the concert to be given to night in the Opera House by New Zealand': queen of song, Miss Bosnia ihiekman, am , ■ tier husband, Nlr Maurice D’Oisly. Loca music-lover,s have followed with the keeues interest, the career of the now famous print! I donna since she left these shores a cleetuh ago, and it may safely he .anticipated that to-night’s audience will accord her a filling welcome, both as ti great singer and as r great New Zealander. Miss ISticknuin re > turns to ns acclaimed and recognised tn the greatest dramatic soprano of the day, Her fellow-countrymen, who have taken great pride in her success, now look forward with eager anticipation to the enjoyment ol her artistry, 'to-night's programme will include the celebrated aria, “Due Kino Hay,” from Puccini’s opera, “Madame Butterfly,” Miss Buekntan is regarded as the linest exponent of the role of “Butterfly” in England, and to the rendering of the little Japanese girl’s song of ingenuous hope, with its faint but ominous echoes ot impending tragedy, she firings till the wealth of her interpretive genius. This is surely the last word in dramatic singing. Alias Buckman’s other numbers will include two songs by Montague Phillips, “Butterlly Wings” and “0, Ship of My Delight,” and in compliance with numerous requests, “Waiata Pol” and “Wanna Maori” by New Zealand’s own composer, Alfred Hill. Mr Maurice D’Oisly will sing several of the numbers which have made his reputation on the English concert platform, including “Adieu tin Alai in” by .Emile Pessard, “Dolorosa” by Montague Phillips, and J. B. Weckerlin’s “Petronillo.” A feature of the concert will be the operatic duels sung in English by Miss Btiekmau and Mr D’Oisly. This is a branch of concert work that these two artists have made peculiarly their own. To-night they will sing the famous duel from the fourth act of Gounod’s “Borneo and Juliet” and also the favourite duct at the end of Act 1. ot Puccini’s “La Boheme.” Supporting the famous singers will be Miss Adelina Leon, a ’cellist with a considerable London reputation, and Mr Percy Kahn, the well-known composer and pianist. The box plan is at Oates’, where 5s dav sales are also available, ROSY. “THE LOTUS KATEB" AND “SHADOWS OE THE SEA.” “The Lotus Eater,” a First National attraction, starring that poor of American ardors, Joint Barrymore, and personally directed by Marshall Neilan, is the feature of the Kosy programme this week. Barrymore plays the part of Jacques J.enoi, who does not. see a woman until he is 25 years of age, due to his father’s wishes. During those years he travels the seven seas, never setting eyes on a woman until his twenlylifth birthday, Ho lands in New York j that day, and then begins a series of adj ventures which are highly entertaining. One of the most thrilling of the scenes shown is a dirigible flight over the Paeilie Ocean, during which Barrymore dives from the basket of the blimp into the ocean. Starting off with an air tragedy, the story is enlivened with scenes taken on a desert island, where a colony has transformed the garden spot into a paradise, where till live I happily. “Shadows of the Sea” L a story I of a gentlemanly pirate starring Conway Tearlo. The serial, “Terror Trail,” and a comedy ate also showing. PALACE. “THE FOXTO-NIGHT. .The story of “The Fox” concerns Sania ] Fe. u woe-begono tramp, who is saved from j a jeering mob in the little desert town of Talienle by Annette, the sheriff's daughter. Bantu Eo decided to stay in the town. Ho | adopts a little waif and the two have to j struggle for existence. The tramp gets a ; job as porter in a bank. The leading banker, E’ouher, is a political crook, leagued with a band of outlaws. Santa Fe learns much of this situation. Coulter “frames” Hick Harwell, the fiance of Annette’s sister, and causes his capture by outlaws. The boy is suspected of stealing from the bank, and the sheriff, who is in disrepute because he has not cleaned up the outlaws, goes into the desert to save Dick. Santa Fe saves the sheriff from death in a sandstorm, hut is himself captured by the outlaws. He escapes, with Dick, through a subterranean river and they arrive back in town just in time to save the srerilf from a mob. Santa Fe reveals himself as a special State agent sent up ro uproot the outlaw gang and to catch Coulter. Aided by cavalry and a large sheriff’s posse he leads an attack next morning on the outlaw stronghold and cleans them out. Coulter is also taken. Santa Fe, now the idol of the section, wins the love of Annette. A comedy and news will also be shown.

IN DEPENDENT PICTURES. TWO FOX E MATURES. Two Fox features will he screened at- ilio Independent. Pictures to-morrow night, and both are spoken of very highly. On the draniatio side ihero will be “The I{u 1 in;; - Passion,” an Oriental romance, filmed amid the tropic splendour ot the West Indies. “Extra! Extra,” die oilier big picture, is a bright newspaper lory, in which the leading roles are played by Edna. Murphy and Johnnie Walker, who scored a- great triumph in “Over the Hill.' The picture i.s wonderfully realistic.