ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1923, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EVERYBODY’S. “DUKE OF YORK’S WEDDING.” A special attraction at Everybody’s tonight and to-morrow will be the “Duke of York’s Weddning” film, showing remarkable scenes of the royal wedding. Local theatre-goers will have the unique opportunity of witnessing the ceremony. A story with a potent moral for mothers and their marriageable daughters is registered in “White Shoulders,” the feature attraction, with Katherine MacDonald. The action of the story revolves around beautiful Virginia Pitman, whose family has practically been reduced to beggary. Robert Lee Pitman, the hot-headed brother, shoots a man who spoke slightingly of his sister with the result that he is tried for murder. These are the straits to which Virginia is reduced by the action of her mother in trying to brave the financial storm of credit. The mother has felt it her duty to protect her daughter from suffering which she has herself felt, and has plunged on gorgeous gowns to make Virginia attractive to rich suitors. The result is utter disaster. The prices of admission are advertsed as usual. THE PEOPLE’S. < “A CONNECTICUT YANKEE” AGAIN TO-NIGHT. The William Fox Special attraction, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” will be given one final screening ,3t the People’s theatre to-night. “A Con- : necticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” a picturisation of one of Mark Twain’s most humorous books, is given a sumptuous background by William Fox, and is one of the most diverting pictures screened for many days. It is filled with humour and light-hearted satire, whilst the pictorial side is a succession of early English exteriors and interiors specially selected. There are long shots of English land- ' scapes with fifth-century castles in the distance, adding much to the interest of the picture. Harry C. Myers takes the part of the Yankee, and is supported by Pauline Starke, Rosemary Treby, and numerous other leading players. All those who were unable to gain admission on Saturday are reminded that to-night is the final screening, as “the Yankee” screens in Waitara to-morrow. Seats for to-night may be reserved at Collier’s. MUSICAL EVENT. VISIT OF JEAN GERADY. “Here is something which no one should miss,” said Dr. Floyd, the well-known I music critic of the Melbourne Argus. “M. ‘ Jean Gerady is able to give pleasure and i profound satisfaction to all but the hopei lessly tone-deaf. People who do not claim ! to be particularly musical, but who ‘like I a tqne,’ will be delighted, for Gerady is a ! master of melody, and causes everything Ihe touches to sing. People who are specifii cally musical will find in his playing the i answer to their questions; and people who ; have made a serious study of any stringed i instrument will realise, as no others quite can, the almost incredible perfection of i his technique. Here it must be said that ‘ in the presence of such artistry as Gerady possesses the very mention of technical ; details seems almost an impertinence. It • is true that his tone is beautiful and sat- ■ isfying to the last degree, and that his bowing is a delight to the eye as well as to the ear, but the realisation of all this i is, over and over again, swallowed up ' while he is playing, in the flood of beauty and meaning which carries the listener ; along with it.” The great ’cellist is supi ported by Mr. George Stewart McManus, l ' an American pianist of considerable note, ' and Miss Essie Ackland, a young Austra- ; lian contralto, whose singing at the Syd- ' i ney and Melbourne Gerady concerts creat!ed something of a sensation. The critic ’ i of the Melbourne Sun, Mr. Thorold Waters, ; wrote:—“ln the voice of Essie Ackland i Australia has surely found another Crossj ley, with dramatic possibilities which were | out of reach of the Gippslander. It is won--1 1 derfully rich and full from the highest note to the lowest, while at times of tragic ! , emphasis it has real tears in it.” Mr. E. ' J. Gravestock announces that two concerts will be given in the Empire Theatre on Saturday next, July 14 and Monday next, July 16. The box plans will be opened at Collier’s on Wednesday morning.