AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13279, 19 January 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC

OPERA HOUSE; FULLER’S PICTURES TO-NIGHT. It will be remembered that the “Picturesque Sydney” film which was shown at the Opera House last Thursday evening created a very favourable impression, and hopes were expressed that Messrs John Fuller and Sons would include further Australian pictures in to-night’s’ programme. It will bo gratifying to learn that Messrs Fuller have secured the picture of “Marvellous Melbourne," and tins will be screened at the Opera House this evening. It is a well-known iaettha). no city in the Southern Hemisphere has made such progress as Melbourne since its foundation. It is the manufacturing centre of Australia, and is the great die triljuting port for ail Victoria, it. has several very handsome public buildings, churches, ami cathedrals, and its magnificent wide streets yllow those to be seen to advantage. In the picture many places of interest are admirably depicteu, not the least of them lieing the beautiful botanical Gardens. The delightful seenery on the upper reaches of the River Ynrjk will come as a surprise to those who have never suspected this river of any pretensions to beauty, but have rather imagined it as a huge, dirty stream for the eonvenienee of ships, ft is safe 1„ predict that the “Marvellous Melbourne” picture will astonish those who have never “ecu the city. An excellent series -jf pictures of varied subjects will also be shown, amongst them being several verv tine" dramas. “Wainona” is a capital storv of Red Indian lore, and “The .Man and -lie Oath is staled as being very stromr in dramatic interest. There will also be s.iown a capital set of comics, including •eoolshead. Victim of Honesty,” and Daddy's Little Diddums,” With the exception of “Marvellous Melbourne,” which is. of course, an Australian production, all the pictures to he shown tills evening only arrived in Wellington last Monday by the English mail, and that they are bcin£ screened in Wanganui to-night is a tribute to the' enterprise of Messrs -luller and Sons. Incidental music will be supplied by Fullers’ Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Mr R. O’Hara

* LYCEUM PICTUDE THEATDE. COMPLETE CHANGE OF PDOQEAMME. There will be an entire change in tlie picture programme to he presented at the Lyceum this evening, and one has only to glance at the headings to recognise that tor interesting variety, as well as instruction the bill of fare could not well be improved upon. The films comprise some of the best scenic, dramatic, comic, and industrial films most recently available, and. it is evident that the Hayward management is determined to provide their patrons with tlie most up-to-date subjects in the picture realm. Chief among the dramatic series will be “Back among the Old Folk,” which is of peculiar human interest, and an Indian drama of the sensational order is “Onawanda.” Several illustrations of life and scenes in Africa are reported to be amongst the finest which have yet been received from the “Dark Continent,” and there is a judicious selection of laughter-making films,,including “Foolshead on the Alps." The musical interludes which have given such a finish to the Hayward entertainments lately, will he furnished by the Norman concert party. Such a singer as Miss Mabel Fowler is rarely to be heard in Wanganui, and .her appearance alone should be a great- attraction to-night. This charming vocalist will sing Tosti's “Good r bye,” with a suitable set of beautifully coloured pictures as a back ground, and also the evergreen Irish ballad “Killarncy.” She will also appear in" conjunction with Miss Edith Nevill in a duet, and Mr Charles Norman will give an oboe solo.

PICTUDES AT CASTEEOLIFF. To-morrow evening at the Town Hall, Castlccliff, the Imperial Pictures will pre. sent a programme of late,, comedy, dramatic. scenic, and industrial films. The company have made arrangements to visit Castlccliff every Friday evening. The prices arc popular, and an entertainment of this class should be well patronised by 14”* I'esidents.

. ■ ,■ ■ r TLIMMER-DENNISTON CO. To-morrow night the I’limmer-Denhiston Co, produce “Lovers’ Lane" at the Opera House, and on Saturday night they will play “The Passing of the Third Floor Back.” The Sun says;—“ The first thing upon which the I’limmcr-Denniston management arc to be congratulated is the lavish and complete way in which ‘Levers’ Lane’ is put on. After the examples set by other iirnis in. this regard, Australian audiences are prone to scoff’at anything but the best. Here they get it, for the mounting of th** piece is most appropriate and beautiful. The second tiling upon which tile management arc to be congratulated is the high acting-average of the company—and the third thing is the very generous reception ‘Lovers’ Lane’ was given bv a fine house.’flu “Tlie Passing of the Third Floor Back,'’ to he produced o.i Saturday, the poetry and the sordid realism of life jostle one another continually in Jerome K-. Jerome’s strange new corticdy. The author seems to ingeniously shadow forth this fact in the title, in which the first word almost conveys a sense of mystery, while the last is a technical phrase peculiar to lodginghouse-koepers in London. Tlie Bloomsbury boardinghouse, upon, which the curtain rises, is described by the acidulated landlady as a “den of -lions,” but it is in fact a den of thieves, illustrating the adage tliat “Humanity must nerforce prey upon itself.” Tlie box plans for both performances are at H. I, Jones and Sons’, and dav sales will be .procurable.at Goss's all day to-morrow and Saturday. , -

MR NAYLOR’S ORGAN RECITAL. Trinity Wesleyan Church was filled last evening, when Mr C. W. Naylor ghye lijs onran recital. He was asrtSted'.M, Miss Lints. Mr Joll, and Mr Etnison J', Gilby. Miss Lints was iii her two numbers. “Nearer My-God 'toiTbee” and “The - Promise of Littlv were:, most artistically rendered. Mr JollHffilheard to great advantage in '“Lord Odd of Abraham” and ‘Thon’rt Passing Hence,” his interpretation of these 'fine solbpbeing much admired. Mr Emison J. Gilby gave a delightful rendition of Saint Saenfc’ “Le Cvgne,” and a second item by this gentleman would have been heartily welcomed. Mr Naylor’s treatment of the organ was all that was expected, and it is safe to say that Trinity’s find instrument has never been played to better advantage. Woolstenholme’s “Question and Answer” and Lux's fantasia, "0 Sanctissima,” were the gems of a particularly enjoyable programme. Future recitals in the church will be awaited with interest.