AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 13 June 1924, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

CELLINI-ZACHAREWITSCH-CIMARA COMPANY.

The Lenghi - Cellini - Zachare-witsch-Cimara combination, who will open their season here in the Theatre Royal on Tuesday, June 24, recorded a pnenomenal success right through their six concerts in the Town Hall, Wellington, at the opening or the New Zealand tour.

Commenting on their filth concert, the “New Zealand Times.” says.— Music-lovers who attended the fifth concert very greatly enjoyed the music placed before them. All the more as they had ieit the silence of the nights since the fourth concert of the series. It was not for them to realise that the lour night’s following so close on one anotner had been hard on the musicians, subjected to such unusual strain. On the contrary the musicians had done all their work with a freshness undimmed by fatigue. Thus the audience arriving on Saturday lor the fifth concert were aware of nothing but their musical appetite, made ravenous by lasting, and the fare placed before them thoroughly satisfied their most exacting desires. The fifth was .another great concert, another conspicuous landmark in the growing musical nistory oi the Dominion. The rapt attention and hearty applause were wormy of the splendour of the music presented. In every number there was perfect artistry of voice, instrument (violin), sympathetic accompaniment of the best, enhancing tiieatly the pleasure of the music-lov-ers present. The Timaru season is booked for Tuesday and Wednesday, June is 4 and 25.

FULLERS’. At the Theatre Royal last evening a well-filled house witnessed the second screening of Gunter’s popular novel, “Mr Barnes of New* York.” With a Corsican vendetta as the subject of the picture, and in addition, an enterprising Yankee who becomes entangled in the feud and at the same time falls in love with a beautiful English girl, it is unnecessary .to state that the picture is full of exciting incidents. Tom Moore plays the geniai'Mr Barnes to perfection, and gives a faithful portrayal of the dashing happy-go-lucky American, who finally sets everything in order and marries the object of his infatuation. Naomi Childers, Anna Lohr, and Syndy Ainsworth, prove strong supports. An interesting Gazette, Travelogue, and an exceptionally diverting Christie comedy, entitled: “Green as Grass,” completes a capital programme. NORMA TALMADGE! Timaruvians will remember the triumph of the J. C. Williamson Co., headed by Muriel' Starr, in “Within the Law,” and the appearance of the clever Norma Talmadge in the main role of a picturised version of the famous play at Fullers’ on Saturday next. This story of a wrongly imprisoned woman, who fights hard and nas her revenge,! is one of the most sensational of film stories. THE GRAND. . Crime, and the detection of crime, are themes always popular with picture audiences. In “Stolen Secrets,” which is now showing at the Grand, Herbert Rawlinson, has an excellent opportunity to portray his favourite type, that of the gentleman crook, and, needless to say, he does it with his usual perfection. The story deals. with the operations of a gang of crooks, who are protected by political pull. In order to effect a cleanup of the gang, Rawlinson operates on the inside, and in the course of time becomes known- as the “Eel,” one of the cleverest criminals of the underworld. The coup is effected with the assistance of the Mayor’s daughter, played by Kathleen Myers, who makes a dainty and very capable leading lady. “Feather Pushers,” a Bert Roach comedy, and “Young Tenderfoot,” a Buddy Messenger production, provide huipour in plenty, and an International News furnishes all the latest happenings of interest.

1 \ “MR BILLINGS.’'

Walter Hiers, in his first Paramount comedy, “Mr Billings Spends His Dime,” which opens at the Grand Theatre next Saturday, has an excellent supporting cast in Jacqueline Logan, George Fawcett, Robert McKim, Patricia Palmer, Joseph Swickard, Guy' Oliver, Edward Patrick, Clarence Burton, George Field and Lucien Littlefield. The production is massive and beautiful, and there are many laughs as well as thrills in the development of the story.