ENTERTAINMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11129, 8 February 1922, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

HIS MAJESTY'S. a?t enjoyable programme. A crowded audience greeted the rise of the curtain at His Majesty s Theatre InwV Avenins. when the current programme was repeated by Fuller’s ville Company. Among the principal contributors were tho Hon< j^u^ o 2f; Mr Tubby Stevens, Tilton and West, Mr Otis Mitchell, Signor Palmetto, and Taylor and Summers. 1 There will be a repetition this evening. # PARAMOUNT AND ARTCRAFT. "THE MIDNIGHT PATROL.” Thomas H. Inca's stirring dramatic "feature” film, "The Midnight Patrol, is crowded attendances each afternoon and evening at the Paramount Theatre. The story embodaed in the production is of a most sensational character, dealing with the alum life of a, large city. There are Chinese opium dens, police raids, .and a daring abduction by a Chinese and his white confederate who steal a young girl from a slum mission home. The hero pf the story is a young police officer, .who opposes his wits to a daring "crook,” ana a brave rescue of the abducted • girl' is effected. Another- attractive photo-play also show* ing is the drama "Is Life Worth Living ?” in which Eugene O'Brien figures m a heroic role. There is also a most hilarious comedy. The programme will be repeated to-day and to-night.

Countess * Eleanor de Cisneros, the American mezzo-contralto, is to make an extensive, concert tour of Australia and New Zealand in the spring of 1922. This gifted artist was a prominent member of Mme. Melba’s Opera Company when it came here several, ago, and .tho following season Mme. Cisneros visited the same towns that embraced the opera tour, in a concert season of her own. At the invitation of Messrs Ben and J«hn Fuller about 200 visiting swimmen. attended the performance at His Majesty’s Theatre last evening. Geraldine Farrar, states a Vancouver correspondent of the "Sydney Sun,” is forsaking the opera stage for a. concert tour, to begin in October. Marie Jeritxa (whose gifts we described last week in this 'column), a Viennese, is replacing her. Her departure from the metropolitan opera has caused the widest sensation. One faction is of the oifnion that she is deserting opera because Marie Jeritza, a new and sensational soprano. 19 being offered a better contract and playing to higher-priced houses in Miss Farrar e own best roles.

"The theatres in your provincial towns compare more than favourably 'with the theatres of similar localities in America.” ©aid Mass Annette KeUerman to a '*Wairaraipa Age” representative; "and they are not-.owned by trust© but by the people—a much more satisfactory arrangement.” She considered the theatre at Invercarjjill, Napier, and Hastings were exceptionally fine.