ENTERTAINMENTS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2693, 10 July 1923, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"ROSY." MYSTERY PLAY. The story of "The Young Diana," now showing ideals with a young woman whoso parvenu father seeks to marry her into the British nobility. She loves Richard Cleeve, a sailor, and Dr. Dimitrius, a scientist, falls in love with hfer. By a strange combination of circumstances Diana comes to believe that her sweetheart has been false to her by Moping with Lady Anne, and she swoons. Twenty years later she is seen as a spinster, and. her life embittered she soes to j Switzerland in answer to an advertisellng to risk her life for the sake of t ment calling for a woman who is wiljsolen't". In the advertiser Diana recognises Dimitrius. He restores her yoiith and beauty, and she becomes the rage of Europe. • Diana meets C'peve, who is married. Ho wishes to desert his wife for her, but she spurns him. Dimitrius, too, wishes to marry her. Diana falls Into a faint. Then she awakens, learns she has been dreaming and is still young and Iov(ely without the need of rejuvenation. All is explained, and the picture fades out with the wedding of Diana and Cleeve. PALACE. "MISSING HUSBANDS'* AND LARRY SEMON COMEDY. The story of "Missing Husbands" now beintj shown at tbje Palace, concerns Antinea. queen of a magnificent land in the Sahara Desert, supposed to be Hie lost con'inert of Atlantis. Travelers never return from her palace once they had seen her beauty' and come under hr spell. Two French officers, MorhanV a'id Saint-Avit, enter a grotto near the queen's domain and see her name nsoribed upon the rock. They follow t.ty? tracings nnd come upon the gates of the wonderland nnd see tw?Pnty-four golden statutes, mummies of men who had known the queen's favours. When Antinea Morhange she falls in love with him. and places Saint-Avit in the care of her lady in waiting, But Morhange who had taken holy vows, spurns the caresses of the quejen and angers her to the point where she urges his jealous comrade, while under the influence of a drug. to kill him. Thie murderer recovering from the spell, turns upon the queen for the purpose of slaying her. but is prevented by the queen's guard, and through the help of the lady-in-waiting, who loves him. he escapes from the place n.nd flees across the desert. But the girl dies of thirst and Saint-Avit is Inter brought back to civilisation. His one thought is of the quleen—and the picture closes with the young officer tracing his steps back to the place where he knows love nnd death await him, A Larry Semon comedy and two others are also showing. EVERYBODY'S. "DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS IN ROBIN HOOD." A TWELFTH CENTURY ROMANCE. To the oharaeter Robin Hood in Douglas Fairbanks' newest, photo-play sensation for United Artists iielease, entitled "Doiiglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood," the. star and producer has given to his best. As Robin Hood he is the embodiment in all ways of that notable personality of eight hundred years ago as we of this ultramodern day would understand nnd appraise him, while the production itself, now showing at Everybody's realisticaly presents the vivid colour and stirring atmosphere of that romantically adventuresome past. "Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood," Represents a real literature of the screen, genuine and historically accurate in costume and netting, and truthful in every small detail as well as in important basis. It blends facts and fantasy, history, and legend, and combines the pdorles of poetic and artistic beauty with an authoritative interpretation of the spirit of romance and adventure prevailing in the Twelfth Century. It give 3 a vividly real impression of the romance, the conflict of emotions and the aspirations which made so memo:able the period in which "Richard the Lion-hearted" ruled. It presents a clear vision of the fundamentals that actuated the leaders of thought and action of a time wwhon the spirit of chivalry dominated as never before nor since. It visua'izes the drama of life and its living when Robin Hood was confronted by supreme tests or his admirable valour in behalf of the Maid Mar'an, and the down-trodden, unfortunate victims of a feudal age. Tt givps. above nil. the utmost in entertainment replete with all these qualities of enthralling drama, breathtaking suspense, and whole some relieving-, diverting humour. It is a scenic nsplica, as nearly accurate as humanly possible, presenting a recreat'on of Hfo nnd its environments in those days of knighthood. It presents an historical background gleaned with deftness from all available records in months of tho most exhaustive research, both in this country and abroad, that ever has been devoted to any cause.

MISS AMY CASTLES. A ■warm welcome awaits Miss Amy Castles and her assisting artists when they appear at the Opera House on I Saturday next. Probably musical his- i Dory cannot show any previous record of a great prima donna taking with j her another prima donna as a sup; porting artist, but this Miss Amy Castles has ventured to do on her present tour in the full confidence that- her own voico is still at its youthful zen- [ ith. There is the advantage of con-: trast, for, while Miss Amy Castles' voice is that rarest of all, the dramatic soprano, that of her sister M'ss Eileen Castle*, is more, lyrical in quality. The one is rich and velvety as ever. With the added charm of finish-

ed art, and the other is distinctively very boautiful. While Miss Amy Castles was adding to her laurels in London, Vienna, Brussels, Berlin and other European capitals, her sister was also making a reputation in grand opera in the United States. The opportunity of hearing two such voices on the one programme should not bw missed. Miss Amy Castles has also with her Mr. Albert Torzillo, who, as a harpist, won Came among his comrades with the A.I.F. in France, and has since been touring successfully in Australia. Mr. Charles Tuckwell comes as solo pianist Ho is a young artist, with a most finished and brilliant technique. The box plan is now open at Oates music shop. Students may claim a concession.