AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13335, 25 March 1911, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, ETC

HAYWARD'S PICTURES. LYCEUM THEATRE. CHANCE OF PROGRAMME TO-NIGHT. Speaking of the programme, to be screened at the Lyceum this evening, the Auckland Herald says:—“ Under the Stars and Hars’’ was a tine example of the dramatic film, and included some stirring events of the American Civil War. “Patricia of the Plains’’ was another American dramatic study typical of the “Wild West.” “A Tin Mine at Malacca” was an interesting industrial picture. A picture that won favour with the audience was entitled “A Plucky American ■Girl," and showed how a young girl frustrated the efforts of a gang of desperadoes to wreck a train. “.Billiards Scientific” showed Recce, the English champion, executing some wonderful strokes. “Taming a Grandfather” wao also an excellent film. The Australian Gazette included splendid pictures of Sydney Harbour, with the French warship Montcalm at • anchor, Sydney University, Melbourne Streets under flood, boat racing on the Yarra, and a glimpse of Sydney’s suburban tram service. Pathc’s Gazette was of the usual high standard, including a wide variety of interesting subjects. The comic element was highly catered for. Possibly the best film shown during the evening was “Lemon Gathering in Sicily.”

OPERA HOUSE. FULLER’S PICTURES. Next Monday evening the Opera House will again be occupied by the above popular firm. The programme to bo submitted is said to be right up to the Fuller standard in every way. All tastes are catered for with dramatic, scenic, comic, and industrial subjects, every one of which comes with the reputation of being in the very first rank. As usual, the incidental music will he provided by O’Hara’s Symphony Orchestra. Full particulars of the bill-of-fare will appear m Monday Is issue, and a good house should result.’ ANTONIA DOLORES. Thus the Bulletin, always critical:— “Dolores has had a week of triumph. This musical city has been banqueted on melody for months past, and it was hard to imagine where good-house enthusiasm could come from, even for a favourite. But Doloros has had her good houses—good, contented,.satisfied houses—that have sat back and drained the champagne cup of song every time. She is a satisfying person is Dolores, with her perfection of voice, and her surprises in songs. No orchid-hunter ever sought so strenuously or with so much whole-hearted enthusiasm for "new" species. An orchid-hunter’s “new" find is usually something hundreds of years old —but new to him and the present world. So Dolores’. ne\v songs are very old ones—mostly the sweet and simple airs of flirback centuries, with the quaint flavour and atmosphere that must belong to the days when the world went ’eisurcly, on it* round. She uses a unique genius in interpreting that atmosphere, and the result fainvariably exquisite. With all this there is a quiet, smileful, charming personality, and a voice that is never troubled by efforts to climb. Wherever the note is—the unusual note—Dolores reafches'for it a* easily as if it were a star and she a witch on a bioom. She has made Australian audimces hers by sheer force on conquest. On Friday—when she gave her last concert—sh© rounded up the insisaed-upon encore, at the finale, by singing the Laughing Song. At the end of the last verse, with Dolores’ laugh echoing through the hall, the enthusiastic Liedcrtafel men (who were grouped in the south balcony) suddenly joined m with Hoch ! Hoch! Hoch !” On Tuesday next, the box plan for the local concerts will be opened at Jones and Son*’.

“SEVEN DAYS.” Ilox plans were opened at - H’. I. Jones and Son’s this morning for the only appearance of Hugh J. Ward's company of comedians, who visit Wanganui on Wednesday for the last time, Reports of tho merry play, “Seven Days,” which have reached us from Australian quarters say it is of the most mirth-provoking description. “Seven Days” is a quarantine comedy: unusual circumstances that enforce uncongenial association between people of carvinor conditions in life obviously present occasion for farcical situations, and it must therefore be placed to the credit of the authors of “Seven Days” that they have been tho first to develop for the stage tho mirthful huihours of a real i)uarantino story. This has been brought about by the transfer from the bookstall to the theatre of Mary Itoberts Rinehart'* well-known American tale, “When a Man Marries.” The Sydney Sun, in speaking •if the opening production of “Seven Days" recently at the Palace Theatfe, remarks; ‘Mr Ward has been fortunate in securing a play so eminently suited to the possibilities of this combination. It was his last effort before retiring as an, actor, and he wanted something particularly good.”