ENTERTAINMENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16174, 27 December 1924, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

NEW STRAND THEATRE. A splendid change of programme will be presented at the New Strand Theatre to-night. Buck Jones, the William Fox star, assuredly had to throw, everything he's got, his lairt ounce of strength, skill and daring, into, the hero's.part of "The Desert Outlaw," the new Fox attraction. The pulsing plot of this photoplay was tailored expressly to Buck's heroio cowboy measure >.by the veteran scenario writer, Charles Kenyon, and directed at high speed and pressure Edmund Mortimer. Buck outdoes himself performing "stunts" probably; never heretofore'dared or thrown on the screen. Lovely Evelyn Brent, playing opposite Buck, ' wins fresh laurels as The Girl, and the supporting cast is splendid. "The Desert Outlaw" scored irresistibly. It had to. The supporting films are of the usual merit. ■ -,

THEATRE ROYAL AND FRANKTON** OWN. Cecil de Mille has given us another! great screenplay. It to" Triumph','* which heads ' the nevf programme screening to-night and Monday only at the Theatre Royal and Frankton's Own. "Triumph" tells the story of two men, the one rich, the other a worker who by a strange will becomes the rich man and the former is left without anything. How he regains his position and wins the girl •of his choice is the delightful romance and gripping dramatic story of this picture. Leatrice Joy, La Rocque, and Victor Varconi are the 6 featured players. The second big attraction, "The Broadway Madonna," a sensational Broadway triumph adapted to the screen without stint in money, talent, effort, enacted by a cast of clis-? languished artists' —stars even in the "smallest bits." The third big attraction is is Stan Laurel in "Mother's Joy." Stan Laurel has never been funnier than in this two-reeler; "Mother's Joy" starts the laughs right from the beginning, and as it develops it defies you to keep from laughing. The latest English and American gazettes and bright music complete the programme. The plan is' at both theatres all day, or reserves may be had by telephoning the Royal 1580 or Frankton's Own by ringing '1736. As this wonderful programme can only be screened for the two nights patrons are urged to book their seats oi' come early. FISK JUBILEE SINGERS, i It is fairly safe to say that there is no body of part-singers and soloists better known that the Fisk Jubilee Singers, who will appear at the Town Hall next Thursday, for a short season, furthermore, there is no danger in saying that nobody is more entitled to fame than they are. Beginning many years ago on their tours, they met with immediate success, and since then the successors of the original band have gone about the world following in the footsteps of those who had preceded them. The standard of the original band was liigh, and ft is only necessary to say that it has not deteriorated. The Jubilee Singers have only one of the original band with them, and that one, Miss Bella Gibbons, is still able to give a performance that is worth going a long way to hear. The other members of the company are much younger, but they live well up to the old tradition. The party consists of four men and six women, and most, 1 of them have voices of an unusual quality. The part-singing in all of them is superb, the blend and balance being perfectly preserved. It is in this classj of work that the ringing quality of the voices is particularly noticeable. The company consists of three sopranos, a contralto, two tenors, a baritone,, a basso pianist, and last,'but not least, a lady baritone.