ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 285, 5 November 1925, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

AMATEUR OPERA. “LES CLOCHES DE CORNEVILLE.” SECOND SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTION. The second successful presentation by the Palmerston North Operatic Society last evening of Planquette’s “Les Cloches de Corneville” was ‘as successful as the initial performance, visitors and local patrons once again being treated to singing and acting of a high degree, and to “business” and dialogue that has survived the hand of Time. The principals, Misses Arini Ashworth and Naomi Whalley, and Messrs A. R. McKegg, B. J. Jacobs, B. Bowator, G. F. Hubble and W. Moore, sang, danced and acted as efficiently as ever, and received much applause for their interpretations of roles that really have to bo acted, not “walked” through. The ensemble displayed evidence of the painstaking and efficient training of Mrs Hulme—once well-known as Miss Eva Moore, a charming actress—and carried out their work with gaiety and naturalness; missing were the stilted, stereotyped stage groupings characteristic of the average amateur production. The orchestra is one of the delights of the production, and is always in accord with the principals and chorus. “Les Cloches de Corneville” is'a very bright entertainment, and a decided change from the usual run of musical plays. The opera will be repeated again this evening, concluding on Saturday night. LADIES’ PIPE BAND. The talented Australian Ladies’ Pipe Band again visited Palmerston North and gave a performance in Everybody’s Theatre last night. The programme which opened with a song, “Just a Sprig of Golden Wattle,” composed and sung by Drum-Major W. Darwin, F.R.G.S., the leader of the band, was as follows: Song, “Murray Moon,” Drummer Molly Innes; song, “Australia is the Land for Me,” Band girls; recitation, “How the chestnut horse came home,” Drummer Bate; song, “Riley’s Cowshed” Drummer Layburn and Company; cross patter, Pipe-Major Young, Drummer Layburn and Bate; dance, “Stockmen’s Galop,” Band girls; recitation, “Our Folk,” Drummer Lena Bate; song, “Memories,” Drummer Molly Innes; dance, “Irish Jig,” Piper Gertie Oliver; song, “So Long New Zealand,” Piper Joan Madsen; recitation, “Gundagai,” Drummer Lena. Bate; song, “Humpy,” Piper Flora Ash; staff swinging, Drum-Major Darwin; dance, “Sailor’s Hornpipe,” Piper Gertie Oliver; Lauder songs, Drum-Major Darwin; pipe solo, Pipe-sergeant Dolly McPherson; selections, by Band: pipe duet, Pipers Stanbridge and Buchanan; Dutch clog dance, Pijier Jean Madsen; reel, Band girls; song, Piper Flora Ash; recitation, “A Wee Scotch Night,” Drummer Bate; song and patter, Pipe-Major Young and Layburn; dance, “Shear. Tribhuis,” Piper Gertie Oliver; song, “Old Scotch Mother,” Drummer Molly Innes; drum solo, Drummers Layburn, Scott and Yates, selections by Band.

PARAMOUNT. Alice Terry is featured at the head of the cast of the Paramount picture, “Sackcloth and Scarlet,” coming to the Paramount to-night. The story is one of two girls, orphan sisters, the younger irresponsible, the other levelheaded and self-sacrificing. As Joan Freeman, Miss Terry is always looking after and caring for her younger sister until one day the thoughtless young girl leaves a comfortable home in New York and goes West “to visit an aunt,” in reality in search of adventure. The picture shows liow it all comes about that Joan and Polly find the way to happiness and love. Dorothy Sebastian, a new “find,” is Polly, and Orville Caldwell is the man in the case. “HER HUSBAND'S SECRET.” Few young actresses have made as rapid strides toward motion picture fame as has Patsy Ruth Miller, who lias the leading role opposite Antonio Moreno in “Her Husband’s Secret,” at the Palace Theatre. She was born in St. Louis in 1904—a “World’s Fair baby”—and, after a family removal to Los Angeles, stepped from a sophomore high school class into a part in a picture Douglas McLean was then making, called “One a Minute.” Real recognition camo with her splendid work in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” and ,she became established as a leading woman. She played the leading feminine roles in “Yankee Consul,” “The Wise Virgin,” “Those Who Judge,” and a dozen other 1 pictures, and finally was engaged by Frank Lloyd to play opposite Moreno in “Her Husband’s Secret.” KOSY. DOUBLE PROGRAMME—3i HOURS. The Pendleton Round-Up, biggest and most colourful of the numerous carnivals of cattle country sports held in America each year, is the background for Hoot Gibson’s rodeo special, “Let ’or Buck,” now showing at the Kosy Theatre. Gibson, who won the all around championship in Pendleton in 1912, rode a Roman race, and drove a chariot race, both of which events wore incorporated in the picture story. Several of the bunch of Universal Ranch riders assigned to the Gibson unit tiook part in the programmed events, and are holders of championships won in former years. In “Let, ’Er Buck,” Gibson has the part of a young cowboy forced by a schemo of a rival in love tio flee the big Texas ranch on which he was employed. As a brakebeam tourist he reached Pendleton a few days before the annual round-up, and is given a job on a ranch nearby. The owner of the ranch is a woman, and, discovering that there is a plot to prevent her horse winning the two racing events, gets the promise of Hoot to ride and drive for her. Marian Nixon and Josie Sedgwick are in the cast. A 6-reel comedy-drama, “Alias Julius Caesar,” starring Charles Ray, is also being shown with two comedies and an Internatismnl News.