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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12538, 30 August 1926, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS “KINGS" . theatre TO-NIGHT 8 TO-NIGHT. Thrills, action, romance and intense appeal in the masterpiece of uie season. “MY OLD DUTCH.” With a splendid cast headed by PAT O’MAI .LEY. MAY McAVOY, In remarkable characterisations. KING’S SELECT ORCHESTRA. (Mr A. 11. Jerome, Mus. Dir.) GAZETTE COMEDY In Support. CHALIAPIN. CHALIAPIN. CHALIAPIN. PREFERENTIAL BOOKINGS. PREFERENTIAL BOOKINGS. BOX PLANS. BOX PLANS. .Box Plans for Preferential Bookings will open at tlio Bristol This Morning at 9 o’clock. QRAND OPERA HODBE. Proprietors : J. C. "Williamson (N.Z.), Ltd. CHALIAPIN A NAME THAT HAS THRILLED THE ENTIRE MUSICAL WORLD. CHALIAPIN "THE SUPREME VOICE OF OUR GENERATION.” The Singer the World hss Ever Known. The , entire New Zealand Tour will comprise six appearances only, Wellington three nights and Auckland three nights. CHALIAPIN’S World Engagements will only permit of the above. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, THURSDAY. SEPT. 16th, SATURDAY, SEPT. 18th, and MONDAY, SEPT. 20th. CHALIAPIN Direction J. and N. TAIT. This, tho most expensive artistio engagement ever entered into for New Zealand To hear Chaliapin is the privilege of tho present generation, who have never heard the like. Ho is undoubtedly the GREATEST LIVING SINGER and the most outstanding figure in the musical world of to-day. CHALIAPIN! His forthcoming tour will bo one of the most sensational musical events ever known in this country, but his season must be of the briefest. PRELIMINARY BOOKING. In view of this fact, J. and N. Tail have decided to receive Preferential Booking Applications immediately, and the Box Plan for Preferential Bookings will bo opened at the Bristol this morning at 9 o'clock. Applications, in writing, addressed to J. and N. Tait, c/o The Bristol, must be accompanied by remittance and stamped addressed envelope. Notwithstanding that this is the most expensive artistic engagement ever made in the Southern Hemisphere, preferential booking for Stalls and Dress Circle has been fixed at *Bl Is, plus tax, total .£1 3s.

SKULL 20,000 YEARS OLD Miss Garrod, a student of the Institute Pnlcontologi© Aumaiine, of Paris and Oxford University, has discovered tbo frontal bono and another portion of a human skull belonging to a youth, embedded in the hardest tufa rock, together with typical Mousterian (stone) implements. The relic is lying under 12ft of a deposit containing similar implements. Tho skull is of the same age and type as tho Gibraltar skull discovered by Korbcs in a quarry in 1840, and, as situated, cun, bo no loss than 20,000 years okU