ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 7 August 1928, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

EMPIRE THEATRE

Charlie Chaplin's "The Circus" comes to the Empire for three nights commencing to-night with a matinee each day. "The Circus" is one of the best and most amusing of all Mr Chaplin's pictures, largely because of the fact that it is east in the same old mould in which so many earlier triumphs were cast. In form and method it is pleasantly familiar, because in it there are many brushfuls of soapsuds, chases and animal cages. The same general type of excruciatingly funny situations, with gag on gag, in which Charlie Chaplin dealt in the old days. • The story tells of a hungry tramp whb meets the /side-show gang of a circus. The stepdaughter of the owner, an abused and neglected bare-back rider, discovers him, and eventually he is given a job as a handy man. Quite by accident'the .tramp finds himself before the audience one day, and his preposterous gestures, his appearance and .lis mental wit immediately take the house bv storm. Charlie does not realise it, but he is the sensation of the troupe, and the owner, taking quick advantage of this, puts him into_ a number of acts The voung woman is attracted by a tight-'i'ope walker, and the tramp, himself deeply in love with her, but still too grateful for his friendship to speitk for himself, eventually arranges matters so' that the girl and the tight-rope walker may prosper and marry. J.he matinee will start at 2.30 to-morrow and at 3.30 on Thursday, with half-price tor children. REGErff THEATRE When the announcement was made that for Colleen's lavish production, "Irene " sixtv beautiful girls would be required for "the big fashion parade mere man was not equal to the task ot selecting them, so Miss Moore herself was persuaded to do the choosing, the roll-up of girls was so great however that the little star was bewildered, the weeding-out process, however, narrowed the "possibles" down to one hundred and sixteen, from which number the required sixty were drawn. ; "-Many of the rejected ones were quite beautiful enough," said the star, "but, there had 0 be a mixture of blondes, brunettes ahd 'in betweeris.' I am sure the unfortunate ones were no more sorry than ] was that thev were not usecK IJJ■6ns oi the Regent Theatre will be able o oaSge Miss Moore's ability as a 3 beauty to-morrow, when 'lrene is ,inp for screening. Matinee at 2.30. Ring 1102 for reserves.

DAISY HALL Arrangements have been made for a vis'"," Nelson of Daisy Hall (New /«,, land's coloratura, soprano) when this talented young lady vv.ll give two recitals at the Regent 1 bent re on Mo - dav and Wednesday the 13th ami If Au-ust respecmeh. Daisy Hall has cie-ited a good impression wherever sue has appeared She comes to Nelson with a big reputation, having won he wav in the musical world by sheer haul studies, coupled with the gift J' 1 ". splendid voice and is spoken highly u \,v the critics wherever she has suik'. Her first tutor was the celebrated I rofessor Benedetto Morasca, of Palermo and subsequently to that she studied under the eminent old maestro Marino P.avagnoli, Milan. Among her numbers for ifer recitals here will be ihe solo •■l.o, hear the gentle lark" (Bishop), famous for its flute cadenzas, rmd it is here as in other bird songs that Daisy Hall's voice is heard to perfection. The box plan will open at Beggs' to-morrow (Wednesday).