AMUSEMENTS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11615, 14 August 1918, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS

‘•THE A WAKENING. ’ ’ TO NIGHT. A student’s dinner is one of the scenes of “The Awakening,’’ and it is there tint the infamous wager is made by an excited student, that Jbriugs about the tragic happenings in the drama. We would remind patrons that every person paying for admission to-night between 7 30 and S p.m will be entitled to one vote for any baby in the baby contest; the baby with lh% largest number of votes receivi g a cash prize of tea shillings, The photo-of the different babies will a iso be screened after the interval Mr Starck has been responsible lor the slides, and they are a credit to him. Each slide con* tains a photo of the baby, with its name and who it represents. Usual prices will bo charged, and patrons must be in the house before 8 p.m. to secure a rote.

THE RISK JUBILEE SINGERS

The Fisk Jubilee Singers will make a welcome re-appearance at Marton Town Hull on Monday, 19t!\ iust., when they will present one of their uoi<p;t entertainments. Since their last appearance in N. Z. the Company iia\e boon considerably" strengthened, some of the remaining members of the original company are Prof. White, (who is also Muscial Director of the combination), and Miss Belle Gibbons, (the only lady baritone in the world.) The company consists in addition to the two mentioned artists ol:—Miss Leila Wyburd (Sojirauo), Miss Bertha Millar, (Ragtime Artist), Miss Clare Solly, (Contralto), and Messrs Sid. Haynes, (Tenor), Les. Belcher (Lyric Tenor), Harold Wilson (Basso), and Marshall Palmer (Baritone). The combination is particularly strong in its rendition of negro melodies, and solo numbers will be followed by rollicking plantation songs. The box plan for the Marton season is now open at Mogridges’,