ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 21, 23 December 1925, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

BTRALIA CONCERT TO-NIGHT. OHUHALDIN THE VIOLINIST. Among the supporting artists at the Stralia .concert in the Opora House tonight is Chuhaldin, the Russian violin virtuso, who landed in Australia only a few months ago. He gave recitals in Adelaide and Melbourne, and so successful were his appearances that he gave several recitals in each . town to crowded and enthusiastic audiences. The press and public of Australia proclaim him a second Kroisler and, although this is very high praise indeed, it is quite in keeping with the quality of his playing. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest violinists in the world to-day. Modest and unassuming, Chuhaldin, who is only in the thirties, is a young man to have such talent, and in time the mantle of Kreisler must fall on him. Speaking of his great performance in Adelaide, when he opened his programme with the wonderful grand concerto in F. sharp minor, by Wieniawski, Chuhaldin’s technique and interpretation were a revelation. He simply astounded the vast audience. His playing was a veritable triumph. Stralia also has the support of Andre Navarre, operatic baritone, and M. Sverjensky, solo pianist and accompanist. The booking office is at Berryman’s. PARAMOUNT® Rex Ingram, while making “Where the Pavement Ends,’’ in Miami. Florida, made a close acquaintance with the famous Even, glades when the water rose and in the form of a lake completely surrounded the studio buildings in which Mr Ingram was at work. Such an overflow had not occurred for 10 years. It will be rendored impossible in the future by tho construction of new canals. “Whero tho Pavement Ends” is now at tho Paramount Theatre. Alice Terry and Ramon Novarro have leading roles. PALACE THEATRE A strong picturo, dramatic to a degree, is “Cheap Kisses,” at the Palace. “DECLASSE.” The Christmas attraction at the Palace will be the wonderful First National picture “Declasse.” This picturo will bo scrooned on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. On Christmas night patrons are promised a special treat, arranged as a tributo to the returned soldiers of tho district. kosyT Willard Louis portrays the part of Robillard in the new \\ arnor Master Picturo, “Tho Lover of Camillo,” at the Kosy Theatre. Ethel Shannon has tho leading role in Franklyn Farnum’s latest, “Billy tho Kid.” MR BENNETT REOPENS OPERA HOUSE. WITH HUGE CHAPLIN SUCCESS. In “Tho Gold Rush,” called Charlie Chaplin’s greatest comedy, and coming next Saturday to tho Opera House under a United Artists Corporation release, the world’s most famous comedian is seen as a pathetic tenderfoot struggling along with hundreds of others who are in search of gold in tho Klondike. Poetic pathos and whimsical comedy are cloverly blended in this iilm. There is ono sccno in which Charlie, a bedraggled bit of humanity, finds a sympathiser and sweetheart —a girl in a dance hall. She dances with ihe little tramp who beams over her shoulder into the eye 3 of his rival, a wealthy minor. There is Jim McKay, a giant as strong as an ox. McKay is enraged and Charlie trembles as the big man menaces him. Tho little man thinks after all that death is better than tho loss of tho queen of tho danco hall. To have tho right typos in Truckeo. in Northern California, whero many scenes of this picture were produced, Chaplin took out a special trainload of hoboes with well-soared countenances and tattered clothes. In several sequences it seems and endless line of ragged humanity that is crossing the Chilkoot Pass. A blizzard rages and men are blown about helplessly. They fight on doggedly, as this winding path cuts through the snows over a precipitous mountainside, is the gateway to their goal, the Klondike. Then in another stretch there is Black I,arson, who lives in terror of the police. He builds a hut in tho Alaska mountains and lives as a hermit amid show and ice. To this hut conies the pathetic Chaplin. Ho knocks at tho door for a rest before plodding along to tho land of gold. Larsen does not care who starves, as ho is not going to tako any chances of tho police apprehending him. The scones aboard a big steamship are full of human interest. Tho luxury and comfort of tho first cabin are contrasted with the misery, want and sickness in the steerage. There is tho little man, who a few years before went on the long hike to tho Klondike, and who now aboard the great vessel is seen wrapped in costly furs. He is unhappy . because he has lost his girl. But in the steerage there is a girl returning homo from Alaska wishing _sho could find hor dear little tramp again.