ENTERTAINMENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16813, 3 June 1926, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HAMILTON CHORAL SOCJETY. To-night at the Winter Show Con- f cert Hall, the Hamilton Choral Society will give a concert, which should prove one o* the most popular fixtures of Show Week. The Society has been practising for some time under the guidance of Mr Harold Piper,' and has attained a high degree of proficiency in concerted singing. Its numbers tonight will include "Allen A'Dalc Went a-Hunting," "The Crusaders," "Martyrs of th Arena," and "Song of the Vikings." The men's chorus will be heard In "Rolling Down to Rio," and "Boy in Blue." The miscellaneous portion of the concert will include: song, "A Request," Mrs F. Booth; song, "Arise, O Sun," Miss M. McKenzie; song, "The King's Minstrel,'' Mr H. Saunders; song, "Hear the Wild Winds Blow," Mr B. Williams. Mrs H. C. Ross will be pianist. Such an excellent programme should draw a large audience. Another concert will be given on Friday night. . "THE .INTRUDER." Denis Kehoe is a firm believer in Hamlet's dictum that "the play's the thing," and he has arranged to present a scries of high-class modern comedies, including some of J. C. Williamson's greatest successes. On Saturday he.will appear with Frances Kayher and his Comedy Company in a new, modem, up-to-the-minute comedy, entitled "The Intruder." New Zealand will see this play before London, where it is underlined for production at the Fortune Theatre next June by a special company headed by a famous film star. The author has thrown the spotlight on to the lives of a pretentious New York family, just at the moment when Peter Crandell, ■ its hope and despair, succeeds in bringing his relatives to the verge of desperation by marrying a young v manicure girl from a Wid West mining town. Henry Gilscy, head of the family, failing to buy the young woman off, and struck by her honesty and sincerity,.determines to try the effect of education upon her, realising that she has, in a way of speaking, got the worst of the deal. The subsequent happenings when Katie has undergone the finishing process, are the preuldc to a most amusing comedy. Modern life, its failings and foibles, are the subject of many a clever sally. The characterisations are uniformly good. "The Intruder" will be played for one night only, and the box plan, is on view at Lewis R. Eady and Son's, Ltd. NEW STRAWD AND FRANKTON,

Two splendid pictures were screened last night. The feature film • is " Drums of Jeopardy"—which are in reality the two finest emeralds In the world and get their name from the fact that they are set as drumheads which are held between the knees of two squatting Hindu figures. The story opens in the atmosphere of a Russian castle where the jewels are recovered by their rightful owner—the young prince of a Russian house. He is tracked to the new world, to New York, where his adventures are entwined with a beautiful American girl, the daughter of a great banker, in whose care he has placed the jewels. The second picture shows House Peters in one of his popular roles in " The Storm Breaker." Seats may be booked at Lewis R. Eady and Son, Ltd., or by "phone 1422, THEATRE ROYAL. The Metro-Goldwyn production of. Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the DTJrber-f villes will be screened for tho last time to-night (Friday). For sheer drama this picture has.seldom lad an equal, for the misfortunes of Tess touch the very depths of human suffering. First seen as a light-hearted English girl, she is suddenly betrayed and cast on the world. Real love comes to her, but proves itself blind until it is too late to.prevent the tragedy invoked by its blindness. To Hlanchc Sweet must be given the greatest praise for her sympathetic handling of the role of Tess. The role of Angel Clare was assigned to Conrad Nagel who made the most of it. Seats should be booked at Jackson's, tobacconist, or by 'phone 1580. LECTURE. To-night, at 7.30, in Liberty Hall, Mr E. Nelson of the International Bible Students' Association, will deliver a special Bible Lecture on the subject, " Resurrection of the Dead."