ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 58, 7 February 1925, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

WILLIAM HEUGHAN. LAST CONCERT TO-NIGHT. Mr William Heughon, the famous drin atic baeao-cantanto, who gave his first c'lneert at the Opera House on Thursday o -eiiiiig, concludes his two fi'fcht's sesson t(-night. He has met with wonderful success tl loughout his world tour in which ho has v sited four continents and travelled over 5< ,000 miles. His receptions have been in tie nature of ovatione and he is undoubtedly oj e of tho greatest artists who hsve ever virited New Zealand. His Wellington scMon finished on Tuesday with tho hall picked to tho doors, the audience including tie Governor-General Sir Charles Ferguson. No lover of musio rJouid fail to toce this last opportunity of hearing one of tho world'e greatost artists. He is as listed by Uyinon Lenzer the finest ycung vi ilinist Australia, has produced, and Gladys Si yer, the brilliant pianist. PARAMOUNT. 'The Confidence Man" is drawing large auliences to the Paramount and the final st: coning this evening should not be xn ssed. In support are a. comedy. Burton H >lmes travelogue and gazette, while dolij htful music is rendered by the Paramount soect orchestra under the direction of Mrs R. S. Law. The box plans are at Sv allow'*. "MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE." RODOLPH VALENTINO RETURNS TO THE SCREEN. "When is Rodolph Valentino coming ba.k to the screen?" That has been the qu :stion that nearly every screen fan has bei n asking for the past two years. Those who have been waiting for him are to ha o thoir hearts desire on Monday next whan "Monsieur Beaucaire" will be preserted at the Paramount Theatre. "Monsieur Beaucaire," it will be remembered, is the story of a great courtier of the Louis X\ regime who forsook tho favours of Royalty to travel as a barber incognito. Ac ion is brought into the picture by Vu cntino in the duel scenes. Never befor ■ has he been butter than as a duellist, am ncvor before has there been such an exciting scene as that in which he fights wit i his back against the wall seven rogues who have been employed to whip him for his insolenee. Tender is the scone indeed in vhich Valentino returns as the Duke de Chi ires to Princess HenrieUe _ whom he lov.'d, and left to bravo the trials on the rou 1 of adventure. Supporting Valentino are Bebe Daniels and J,.ok Wilson (of "C< vered Wagon" fame). In connection wit i "Beaucaire" there will be a special mil ical programme by the Paramount ore! lestra under tho conductorship of Mrs R. S. Law. KOSY. With a select little orchestra to play to the double programme submitted at the Ko y business has improved and so it sho ild. "The Marriage Chance" is the bettar of two good five-reelers showing. In add tion two comedies and a gazette—a gtai ,t variety—are also shown. PALACE TO-NIGHT. MA3GIE FOSTER~AND HER VIOLIN. Soft, sweet strains from a violin, remar tably played by a sweet faced girl, and ther u. tornudo of applause that will continue until the delightful music begins agai i will be tho order of things when Mat B' e Foster graces the stage at the j Pah ce to-night. Miss Foster is a young i violi uisto who has won enormous favour in all the large towns and cities of Australia,! New Zealand, and Africa, It is with | grec; pride that the management annoui ced her engagement, and it is sure that the high salary it is paying this wondorf il artist and ifs entorpriso m bringing her to Palmerstou North will be justified by :he picture-going public. Miss Foster inte: sperses her classical numbers with thos > of popular items the whole making an original and delightful entertainment. The picture programme is sufficiently good to j redict an early filling for this theatrs this evening. Colleen Moore in "The Perijct Flapper" and "The Fast Steppers" are the chief items in this good bill. GtEAT DRAMATIC ATTRACTION. MURIEL STARR AND FRANK ' HARVEY. It is revealing no secret to say that Miss Mui iel Starr was vory keen to play the part of Daisy, the halfcasie Chinese girl in "Eoit of Suez," in which this brilliant actr 'BB and Mr Frank Harvey will make thei re-appearance in Palmerston North al. the Opera House on Monday evening next, Ever ,since she saw the powerful draria abroad she cherished the ambition of undertaking (hat subtle character. The eforo, her delight may be imagined whe i tho big firm of J. C. Williamson, Ltd. acquired the piece for Australia and Nev Zealand, tuna immediately brought hor out to portray the leading role. She told an interviewer recently that the char icter of the' heroine, Daisy, attracted hor immensely, and she spent a good deal of h '.r leisure time in endeavouring to see, as i( were, into Daisy's soul and get a clue to 1 ier character. In this she was tremens lously assisted by the author. Somerset Mau jham, who stated: "Something more than your own shrewd understanding of your sex is required lo comprehend E'aisy. You have to remind yiurself that she comes of a race that was already for gone in civili sation when we were sunk in compare' ive barbarism, and that will help you to r< member that she id Chinese first always." With such an interest in a chart cter it is little wonder that Miss Stan has, so we are told, achieved the greatest triumph in her career in "East of Suez" On Tuesday night next Robert Hioh m's spectacular, romantic, and soulstirri ig drama of love in tho d'.T-eit, "The Card >n of Allah," will lo staged for the first and only time hue. The strong dram itic interest of this production and tho 1 ne setting of Miss MnWel Starr and Fran!: Harvey have made "The Garden of Allah" throughout the Dominion exceedingly popular. The box plans for both prodi ctions are now open at Gates' musio shop.