AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15131, 27 January 1917, Page 10

AMUSEMENTS AND MEETINGS

THE GRAND THEATRE. To-night will be the last screening of the Lasky Company’s great Western drama, “The Love Mask.” Cleo Ridgely and Wallace Reid are the principal stars in this story. The popular actress, Ella Hall, also appears in the five act drama “Little Eva Edgarton,” >orted by Herbert Rawlinsou, of “The Black Box” serial fame. Hie “Broken Coin” (No. 11), “Ham, the Fortune Teller,” the Eclair Journal and “Tangled by Telephone” will complete the programme. On Monday next Miss Laura HopeCrews will appear in the Lasky feature, “The Fighting Hope,” and Louis Lovely in the o-act drama, “The Gilded Spider.” QUEEN ALEXANDRA BAND. CONCERT SUNDAY EVENING. . The popular and interesting open-air Sunday evening concerts, so successfully introduced bv the Queen Alexandra Band, will be continued to-mor-row (Sundty) evening, in the Rounda, Queen’s Park. To meet the wishes of a large number of the public who speak highly of these performances, the first item will commence at 8.20 (and not 8.30 as formerly), and will conclude at 9.30 prompt. ■ The following is the programme;— March, “New Zealand,” Alex. lithgow; selection,’ “Nabucco,” Verdi; intermezzo, “The Merry Monarch,” H. Holloway; selection, “Classic Gems,” W. Rimmer; comet solo “Distant Voices,” W. Rimmer; selection, “II Trovatore,” Verdi; march, “Boys of Anzac,” L. E- Bulch; God Save the King. J. C. WILLIAMSON’S MUSICAL COMEDY SEASON. The solid booking for the J. C. Williamson’s comic opera season, which commences at the Opera House on Monday night, assures of two crowded houses for “To-Night’s the Night” and “So Long, Letty.” A great deal of interest is centred in the productions in Wanganui of the two world-famed comic operas, “To-Night’s the Night” and “So Long, Letty,” which have been drawing crowded houses throughout the Dominion for the past six weeks. Special interest has been aroused in the appearance of several English artists, in eluding Connie Ediss, C. H. Workman, Field Fisher, Alfred Frith, Claud Bantock, Walter Champney, William Greene, Fred Maguire, Edgar Warwick, Ronald McLeod, Jack Hooker, Dorothy Brunton, Maude Fane, Marie Eaton, Cecil Bradley, Ethel Morrison. Rene Connelly, Madge Elliott, and Violet Hooper. “To-Night’s the Night,” the opening piece on Monday night, is said to be attractive in every way. There are lively airs, smart dialogue, fascinating dances, humorous situations, bright spectacles, clever comedians, and the songs and choruses are bright, tuneful and dashing, and it is said that the whole piece goes with a swing from start to finish. The second production, on Tuesday night, will he the mirthprovoking, sweetly pretty, and exquisite comic opera success, “So Long, Letty. ' In this production Dorothy Brunton will he seen in the tilte role of Letty, Miss Connie Ediss will appear as Grace Miller, Mr C. H. Workman and Field Fisher as the two husbands, Mr Alfred Frith as the comic beach life-saver, Wiliam Greene asPhilip Brown, Marie Eaton as Chita Mann, Ethel Morrison as Amelia Cease, and Cecil Bradley as Mabel, and the other favourites of the company go/ to make up a brilliant cast. A staff of mechanists, property men and electricians have already arrived with the “To-Night’s the Night” effects, which came to hand this mornin'g. The box plan for the two plays are now on view at H. I. Jones and Sons’.