AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 52, 2 March 1909, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

BLAND HOLT DRAMATIC ctim^Sfft

"THE WHITE HEATHER,".;.

The return of Bland ; Holt-arid.:hi|" dramatic organisation is ever much favoured of the melodrama loving piiblr,the signal for full houses and pluiiji ;; receipts. There was ; , moreover,;■-laitV night, the magnet of " The/-White ' Heather," evergreen in the hearts, of those -whose dramatic affections yearn for virtue and true love- .triumphant, seasoned with so mush sensation as inaj| ensure an interesting progress towards the downfall In the ■wajjr,'ot V staging accessories, nothing was lacking, the cunning machinery attending "jtlM duel on the sea bed .being a partiralaitj) crafty piece of stage verisimilitude..'.'; In : the role of Lord Angus Cameron,' : llt« Arthur Styan did some good work; playing well within himself and'displaying* commendable restraint from perpetrating" the "bowie-knife" variety of bad man. ~;rTrue, -his conception of- the feprobate : patrician was neither excessively subtle nor patricianly, but he invested the .park!?. with a trick of Jiving that was'.~reffeiMnjf ■ after the average manufacture -one finds in melodrama. Mis 3 Harrie Ireland,: as'v" Marion Hume, figured successfully'in her y usual part as the victim of.' unglovel'. circumstances, but, unlike her custoinaijj fate in such roles, she emerges from age* ."'■:■ of troubles to the happy finale-iand Mie». Ireland is always liappieT,'to-be pa'ta-V doxical, when she is sustaining a trigie : i end a painful exit. Last : night .she, - played a, finely-balaiiced character to tik lakt act, but seemed/ tlien .hardly: rft.s signed" to yield lief trdußieV Wn"a r 6eypaWv ing hopeful of a better fulfilment,: whiclji ,'\ might have beeh expected from "Dolor" herself under such conditions; -Mr; Bland ?: Holt, as Edgar Trefusis, worked-ener->' getically to throw the merry, cloak, tl drollery athwart the general severifyof things, and Mrs. Bland Holt, as iadj : .T Janet Maclintock, and Miss Bessie ;; : Major, as Lady Liimley, were Trilling" ao- :' complices to him in the" kridciavour.'-■!&. / Charles Brown made an eminently'sue- : cessful James Hume, while Mr. Mas, Maxwell and Mi-. Leslie Woods passably satisfactory in their respective ■ portrayals, of Captain Alex. Maclintoct "v~ and Dick Beach. Miss Jennie Pollock made a handsome Lady r Vausr, and the remainder .of tU/tpngfi: cast was more or less capably interpreted. ; "The White Heather" will be stage! - again this evening-. ' OPERA HOUSE. The capital-living pictures 1 entertainii A ment provided at the Opera H6use at-".----tracted another large audience leet.-^jSitf::-; ing, the spectators expressing much, appreciation of the quality of the fare pro-. ' vided. There are several , very .fine films; included in the programme, the fcefct being "Beautiful waterfalls,'^..'\CrociJaUe Hunting/ and The. ; 6«nM programme will be presented untU&tur , ; day next. . ; ' ROYAL ALBERT MALL. 'J Large houses continue to patronise tM; novel and interesting living pictilre ea*" , tertainment at the Royal Albert'.'Hflli,: last evening being no exception .to, iia. rule. The audience on frequent occasions : signified their warm appreciation :bf.the v;.. quality of the films, the many subject* treated comprising an er«ensive'vanetji: ; embracing the scenic, dramatic and hnmt orous. The performance will -be 'giT^[ : - ea-ch evening throughout the week....- ■_ WESTS PICTURES.; ' .j-1 The current programme Was in the presence of a large' audiencSliat night, and will repeated for-the la« _ time to-night. To-morro'tf ft'; cSmfle.W.; change of programme will Tie giyen\ -. '.