AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13900, 11 May 1909, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

- +u* PATHE PICTURES

The Theatre Royal will he occupied on Wednesday and Thursday night by Henry Hayward's famous Pathe Pictures, direct from the Theatre Royal, Christchurch. The pictures are not only new and original, but are picked out to form the strongest-possible programme to suit the public. The films that will be shown are —The Planter's Wife, The Organ-grinder's Daughter, Love and Duty, The Trooper's Bride, Carlo's Revenge, A Dream in Sicily, Scenes in Hungary, A Rocket Policeman, The Non-stop Cycle, etc. The speciality turns will be Signor Martin(.•ngo, baritone and 'cello soloist, in his original scene, "The Unemployed Musiiian." Signor Martinengo has appeared in every first-class music hall in Great Britain. All the slides of the Christehurch. beauty competition will be shown. MISS JEAN HOWISON. The lady who is to give a lecture on Robert Burns in the Assembly Rooms to-morrow evening, lias seen a good bit of the world, having visited as a lecturer every one of the principal Dominions of the Empire as a lecturer. She has become cosmopolitan in her ideas generally, but -when poetry is mentioned she remains Scotch at heart. Miss Howison has a repertoire, however, and at the head of it places Robert Burns, lan Maclareu, Shakespeare and Charles Dickens in that order. Most of her early life was spent in America, where she was a schoolmate with the future President Taft. In a chat with her yesterday, a "Herald" representative learned that Miss Howison is a strong believer in women's suffrage, ' but New Zealand women and English women, are not so well prepared for it as American women are. The latter would be prepared to use it if they got, it — as they in four of the States have. now. In her opinion women would attend to the small things that matter, more carefully tliim men do, in municipal matters especially. American women are more businesslike than New Zealanders, and if they had the franchise would make use of it as women, that is to say, would have women's organisations, as the men have. Regarding her lectures Miss Howison says that it is useless to offer Americans a lecture on Shakespeare, because his works are used in the schools, and the average American knows much more about Shakespeare than the average Englishman. But Robert Burns will draw anywhere in the English speaking world, because of Jie broad humanitarianism that characterises his literary work. A good . udience is already assured for to-mor-row evening's lecture and judging by the press notices Miss Howison has received elsewhere, her audience will be well pleased with it.