GAIETY IMPROVEMENTS REOPENING SATURDAY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 171, 21 August 1929, Page 2

GAIETY IMPROVEMENTS REOPENING SATURDAY.

Tbe arrny of rvoi'kmeii still continues • a*' the Ga'iety, getting ready for tlie ffvst of the Talking" .programmes thut will be the.-pew .regi.me..at tlns popular Iiouse af amusemeat tVoni Saturday. Tbe box- plaii .for the .frbiit 'hta'l'ls- is now open at E. Hyde's and putrons are advised to book'straiglit' aivay, as -the D.C. reseiwatibns are alrgady sold out. The installation of the gigantic Western Electfic sound reprbducing equip- . ment, including all the very latest patents and improvements, togetlier witli the datonex transvox transparent .stereoscopic screen, is a credit to the management of this house and Napier should he well proud to haye such a modern plant in a provincial town, tlie Gaiety management always having oue objeet in view, "The best and tlie best- only.'-' Tbe huge palatial theatres of England, America and Australia _ are equipped witb Western Electric and now Napier will liave tlie pleasnre of seeing tlie sanic- show. The opening feature, "Tlie Singing Fool." ran for seven wecks in Auckland, truly a record and the business lias always been record wherever this picture has appeared. Famed throughout tlie length and breadth of America and Gi-'eat Britain as the singer with a tear im his voice. A1 Jolson, who is starring, is to--day the highest salaned stage sfar in the* ivorld. ■ 0f hinR George Jean Natlian,. Ihe -celohrated _crjtic , Avrote-; "Tlie power of Jolson over an audience, [ have seldom seen equalled; There are actoi's who, backed up by great dramatists, can clutcli an audience in the hollow of their hands and squeeze 'out its emotioiis as they. choose. There are singers, wlio backed up by great composers, can do tbe same. But I know of none like tlu's Jolson, who can luy Iiold of an audience the moment he comes on the stage or screen, and never iet go for a second thereafter. Posessti! of an immensely electrioal personalitv, a. rare sense of comedy.'a inost unnsual musical ishow versatility in the

way of song and danee, and, above all, a gift of delivering lines to the fulj of tbeir effects, he so far outdistan'ces his nvals that they seem like the wrong ends of sb many opera-glasses." The box plan is at E. * J. Hyde's for the ontire season. Some of the most brilliant musical attractioiis support the teature. Announcements later.