AMUSEMENTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 23 June 1924, Page 10

AMUSEMENTS.

FULLERS’ PICTURES

Heading a bright programme at the Theatre Royal is “The Scarlet Lily,” starring Katherine MacDonald. The picture was written especially for Miss Macdonald from Fred Sittenham’s story of love and political intrigue, and directed by Victor Sc-hortzingcr. Enacting the role of Dora Mason, tho star is shown as a clerk in a shop, dealing in objects of art. One day Dora attracted tho attention of a wealthy patron of the shop, Jessup Baines, notorious for his illicit love affairs. Despite the girl’s reserve and distaste of his advances, Barnes continued to force himself upon her. Out of the girl’s scanty wages she was supporting a little sister, a bed-ridden invalid. With the skill born of long practice, Barnes eventually managed to induce Dora to accept his offer of an apartment, pointing out to her that she ought to accept for the sake of her sister. How she liberated herself from tire web woven by the roue, how he sought to wreck her life for revenge, hovT she gained tho upper hand arc some of the highly dramatic features of the photoplay. Stuart Holmes plays the part of Barnes, with Orville Caldwell cast in the role of the hero. An excellent supporting programme includes the Topical Gazette, the latest Graphic, 1 two sparkling , comedies, “Kinky,” and “West is West,” and a further chapter of “The Oregon Trail.”

pictures on Saturday night. The first attraction was the film version of the stage play “Enter. Madame,” in which Clara Kimball Young and Elliott Dexter have the leading roles. Madame Lisa Della Robbia, international opera star, has contracted the habit of leaving her'husband in Boston while she travels about Europe, and the husband consoles himself with a pretty Boston widow. After a time, hot writes to his-iyife that he wants to divorce her and marry tho widow. For. all that she Is "numb with grief, Madame acts, and is in Boston seventeen days’ later. , Her ridicule ot the prospective new Mrs Fitzgerald, now .Mrs Preston, her pretence that she has come only to ask for freedom to marry the Duke of Alva, her first appeals to her husband’s memory of then romance> —all these fail. She arranges a dinner, inviting not only Gerald and their son John, with his little fiancee, Aline, but also Mrs Flora Preston. And at the dinner Gerald sees the light. Lisa, brilliant, beautiful, whimsical, elusive —a world personality; Flora — well, just a Boston widow. The opera singer cannot be a woman and not twist the barb in Gerald’s heart a little. To-morrow, she announces, she sails for Brazil. And Lisa does. To Brazil she goes, eloping with her husband. She even gets him to carry Toto, the. poodle. The second feature is “A Private Scandal,” starring May McAvoy. The story tells of Jeanne, a little French girl, a wealthy American horse-owner, and his charming young wife, a baby girl, a love-stricken hostler and a disappointed suitor. Before the. tangle was straightened out, three innocent people suffered untold agony of mind.

THEATRE ROYAL, TO-MORIIOW. THREE VIRTUOSI.

This is how an exchange speaks ol the great artists who will appear in the Theatre Royal to-morrow night:

In 1919 and 1920 Maestro Conte Pietro Cimara appeared as soloist ami accompanist on tlie tours of Madame Tetrazzini in Europe and America, and during the autumn of the latter year conducted opera in Rome, and immediately alter was engaged as Maestro Conductor at the Verdi Opera House, Trieste. With him is Guiseppe Lenglii-Cellini, acclaimed by press and public a great tenor of unquestioned artistry and superb voice. As a musical centre Liverpool ranks next to London in Great Britain, and it is interesting to note, that the Liverpool “Courier,” commenting on a recent appearance of Zacharowitsch (the Polish violinist who completes this group), at the Philharmonic Hall in that City, sav.s: “To the auditor accustomed to the perfunctory methods of the merely brilliant performer, M. Zncharewjtsdi’s methods of playing was a revelation of tho difference that under the wand of this master becomes absolute wizardry.” The box plan is filling rapidly at the Bristol.