ENTERTAINMENTS

Southland Times, Issue 17476, 17 July 1915, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

j POPULAR PICTURE PALACE. • "The Jockey of Death" programme, j which has been very well received, will |he screened at the Popular Picture Palace this afternoon and evening. The I programme Is one of uniform merit, and 1 should attract extensive patronage. i THE LYCEUM. The final screening of the current programme at the Lyceum Theatre will take place this evening. Chiefly distinguished by the inclusion of a Keystone comedy entitled “The Home Breakers,” the programme is a good one and has attracted much favourable 110i ice. FULLERS’ PICTURES. What is described as “the greatest Nordlsk film” will be screened for the last time this evening. This picture is entitled “The Candle and the Moth,” and is of a sensational nature. It is well supported by u varied series of dramas, comedies and topical subjects. HENRI LTSSACK’S CONCERT. The audience which foregathered in the Victoria Hall last evening were unanimous in their decision that a musical treat had been served up for their delectation. From time to time we have received visits from musical •'prodigies, but it is extremely doubtful if any that have previously come under our notice could In any way approach Henri Lissack, who lias been described as the most brilliant boy violinist, and after listening to the lad one can quite conceive that he lias created something akin to a sensation in each of the largo centres where he has performed. The lad. who Is only ten years of age, has obviously had heredity to thank for the genius that is his, and this contention is borne out when one is informed that he is descended from a long line of distinguished Polish musicians. Before lie was four years of ago, Henri Lissack, took the violin as a duck does to water, and at that early age lie played the “Blue Bells of Scotland," with variations, and ‘‘l Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls” publicly in Auckland, and at seven years he played at the Auckland Liedertafel concert, and was enthusiastically encored. Since then he has continued to make rapid strides, until to-day he stands pre-eminent as a hoy musician. He possesses all the attributes of the true artist, and his technique is superb for one so young. The sweet strains that lie extracts from the King of instruments are indeed a delight to the oar, and the lad is so unaffected and modest in demeanour that he cannot fail to attract no matter before what audience he may appear. Last evening he had a programme to negotiate that might well have, dismayed the most experienced and talented performer, but he got through it, to make use of a colloquialism, “without turning a hair," and the audience had no mercy on him, but kept crying for more. The task he was allotted last night will best be realised when the following items that he rendered ("exclusive of encores) are enumerated: Danses Tziganes (Naekez), Kol Nedrie (Max Brusch), Tin Soir Poytici (Papini), Valse Tristo (Sibelius), concerto: Andanti and Finale (Mendelssohn), Legende (Wieniawski), Culloden (Murdoch), and Harp that Once (Stephens). With his very small brother, Maurice, a mite of three, who at that early age has learned the rudiments of ’cello playing, he played the Humoresque (Dvorak). In reference to the child Maurice, he is even more amazing than his elder brother, and one marvels that one of such tender age Is able to give so remarkably well expression to the music that is in the little chap’s soul. Mr Le Petit who contributed two flute solos in his usual artistic manner, and Miss Emery, who is a pianiste of ability, her rendering of Fantasia Tmpromtu (Chotnn) being charmingly done, were the other performers. Miss Emery also played the accompaniments, and in this work she was equally successful. Music-lovers will have an opportunity of hearing Henri and Maurice Lissack at the Hibernian Band concert in tbe Municipal Theatre to-morrow night in aid of the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund. Polly McLaren. A poor house faced the performers at the concert in the Municipal * Theatre last night, the back stalls and the gallery being the only parts of the house which were patronised to any extent. Miss McLaren appeared in several classical dances in the first .part of the programme, and fairly captivated the audience by her artistry, “Once Upon a Time," a graceful dance of the midVjptorian period, being her most popular number. Miss McLaren also danced “La Paplllon” (The Butterfly), “The Dying Swan," and a Pas de Fascination. In the second part of the programme sixe /