ENTERTAINMENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17222, 4 October 1927, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

CONCERT AT TE AROHA. HAMILTON SINGERS PARTICIPATE There was a large attendance aL the Majestic Theatre, Te Aroha, last? night, when Madame Irene Ainsley gave a vocal recital. The programme included excerpts from 1 grand opera and ballad music, including concerted numbers, and the whole programme was enthustically received. Madame Ainsley was assisted by Mrs C. F. Bond (Hamilton), Miss M. Fair (Auckland), and Messrs L. G. Blackie and Ken. P. Eadc (Hamilton). THEATRE ROYAL. It is the Syd. Chaplin of “Charley’s Aunt,” “The Alan on the Box,” “The Better ’Ole,” the Syd. Chaplin of the ludicrous female disguises and winks and nods and uproarious gags, who appears in “Oh! What a Nurse!” Syd. starts as a newspaper reporter, but it isn’t long before wS find him disguised as a bootleg queen and as a trained nurse. Syd. is a laugh-maker of the front rank. Perhaps the highbrow critics won’t write 'sentimental eulogies of his work, as they do of Brother Charlie’s, because Syd. makes no play for pathos, or for anything but laughs. And laughs he gets. He gets all the laughs that you’ve got “Oh! What a Nurse!” will commence a season of three nights to-night at the Theatre Royal.

STRAND & FRANKTON THEATRES. “The Telephone Girl” Paramount’s version of William C. De Mille’s stage success “The Woman,” is the current attraction. Holbrook Blinn,. Madge Bellamy, Warner Baxter, May Allison and Lawrence Gray are featured. Romance, excitement and comedy galore, these are the ingredients of the film which Ray Rockett produced entitled, “Sec You in Jail,” which is in the same progromme. “THE BIRTH OF A FLOWER.” Hamilton will have the opportunity of seeing a unique picture, “The Birth of a Flower,” at the Strand Theatre at 2 p.m. to-morrow. Mr Clarke Irvine, the producer, will give an explanatory lecture. “Plant life in this world manufactures and utilises more energy than all the man-made machines in the civilised world to-day,” is the statement of Mr Irvine. -All the motors, engines, turbines, windmills and dynamos are as nothing compared with the tremendous amount of energy that is being made and consumed each hour of each day in the quiet fields and forests.” This film was made by A. G. Pillsbury, inventor of the slow-motion camera, with which he discloses Nature’s innermost secrets and shows the actual blooming of a flower, several days’ growth being seen in only a few minutes. The picture, which is of feature length and makes a varied entertainment with its comedy, animal life, scenic views and so on, has been highly endorsed by New Zealand educationists, clergymen and parents.

ALEXANDER WATSON. Mr E. J. Gravestock announces I that he has arranged for Mr Alexander Watson, the famous English entertainer, to give one recital in the Theatre Royal, Hamilton, on Monday J evening next. I All over the English-speaking world Mr Watson’s work has a multitude of admirers, for there is probably no reciter before the public who has travelled so extensively and so successfully as Mr Watson has done in the pursuit of his art. For many years large audiences throughout England, Australia, and New Zealand, including the members of lecture societies and literary institutes, and boys and girls • in our public schools, have keenly enjoyed his discerning interpretations of great literature —selections made with that fine feeling he possesses for what is best and most appropriate for verbal presentations. liis easy, sympathetic versatility ‘and tuneful flexible voice enable him to employ his power with equal facility whether the author he is interpreting is Shakespeare, Dickens, Barrie, Kipling, Masefield, or Jacobs, or the hundreds of others included in his varied and unusual repertoire. At Mr Watson’s recital in Hamilton he will give all the gems from his wonderful repertoire.

“KATINKA.” ,w > The box plan for the “Ivatinka” season will open to-morrow (Wednesday) at 9 a.m. The advertisement in this issue advises early application, and with such a production, glorious dresses, magnificent scenery, and the undoubted excellent performance the society will give, the season should b@ one of packed houses. ORATORIO “ATHALIE.” * The performance of Mendelssohn’s > oratorio, “Athalie,” hy ; St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Choir, which was so successful recently,.will he repeated on Saturday, October 8, under the baton of Mr E. 11. Apthorp. The soloists are Mesdames G. Boyes and F. Mason, and Miss Mary McKenzie, and Rev. 11. G. Gilbert is the narrator* A large audience is expected.