AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 142, 15 June 1908, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. ""Her Love Against the World" was played for the last time on. Saturday evening before an audience which filled the theatre to overflowing. This evening Sardou's famous play, "Fedora," will be staged for the first time for many years. More than ordinary interest attaches to the production, since the success of Miss Madge Mcintosh and Mr. Harcourt Beatty in the leading roles. Miss Mcintosh's performance as Sardou's fateful heroine was declared by the critics to be a very fine impersonation. A critic refers to Mr. Harcourt Beatty's Loris Ipanoil as powerfully purposeful, sharing the honours of the triumph with Miss Mcintosh. During the play Miss Mcintosh wears soma magnificent costumes. The scenery is said to be particularly effective, and the play staged with the characteristic excellence of Messrs. Meynell and Gunn's productions. The run of "Fedora" is limited to a few nights, following which "A Beggar on Horseback" will be stagedi °

OPERA HOUSE. The Wide-World Picture Syndicate presented their third programme of the present sea-son at the Opera House on Saturday evening, the performance being witnessed by a crowded house. The quality of the entertainment was equal in all respects to that provided with the two previous programmes, and several of the pictures may be classed as amongst the finest yet exhibited in Auckland. The steadiness of the films, combined with clearness of details renders the performance an admirable one, and the selection of the pictures is such as to afford every variety. The films exhibited on Saturday evening included several depicting a visit to China, a voyage across the Atlantic, with a moving panorama of Xew York, and life amongst the Cossacks of the Don. Another remarkable feature was a film entitled ;i Engulfed in the Quicksand,'' representing, with thrilling exactitude, a tragedy of the French Coast. The remained of the programme comprised '• The Magic Garden," " The Leather Industry," " The Counterfeiters," " The Two Brothers," and other pictures, both of a dramatic and of a highly humorous nature. The programme will be repeated each eevning throughout the week.