AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 215, 9 September 1914, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

"NEVER SAY DIE." The swnml pradiirtlnn of "Tin- Fortune Hunter , - hjr the Nlblo-CoUan Company met with the warm approval of a larp , iiiidienee nt His Majesty's Theatre List night. Tbr work of the principals earned ap- ' phiiise, and they were rivalled time after I time. 'The Fortune Huuti-r" will be re- , pea ted to-ni.Eht anil to-uwrrow. and on I-'ri-iduy it will sive pla.-e 1,. -Never Say Die." | a very suceessfnl eomedy-fiiref. This play enjoyed a run of three years in New York, and 'in Sydney anil Melbourne it made playeoers laiißh fur over six months. The ! story deals with a ri.ri t.a.-helor. who [s only ex-pe,-te<l to live fer three weeks, and In poor friend who is rusncnl but unalde to marry owing lo •ramped tinanirs. When ' the medical verdict is pumoiinrpd it i> i arranged that the dying man shall %.< thrniigh the marriase ceremony with hii friend's sweetheart, so (tint she may inherlt hi< fortune, and all may end happily. iHe reeilossly throws a»lti(« all doetnrs . orders re diet. etr.. and determines upoii I rnakinpr his last three weeks on earth I merry ones Rut. instead of hurryinc hi , cml. this disregard of ail re suits ivi his complete recovery, min-h t" the ennstcrnation of his friend Th.lauelial'le eempllentlons which nnturallj 'arise can wrll he imaiined. and in the abU hand« "f Mr Nihlo. Miss Cohan, and thr very eseellpnt suppxTtinc: (ompauy. ir b said, result in an evening of unbroker lauehter. Only three representations car he civen of "Never Say Die." as on Tnes May and Wednesday next the season wil ; close with t»u productions of "uffltct ; UOti."

OI'ERA lint'SE. I ] ! 'The randy tllrl" sketch. presented ai the i ippm linns.* h.T Mann nml Franks. - 1 was repeated with m ess las- night. The i • J'*' , *i l '>s. **h;irp-:?liooi r-rt h n<l j tis;rl**rs, a Ist* mo: with a very i-onUal rereptlon. THE SMART SETT. Tne Smart Sot purly nf humorous ratisi plans made their spionrl appearance at the Town Hall eonrert chamber last ermine. the entertainment meeting with the same _ Urge measure uf suiveas a> «.;s attained on the upeolnc night. PICTURE ENTERTAINMENT*. "Harris." the fensariou nf the current programioe at tbe Kiue iJporsrp Theatre. vt-ill hp presented flnally to-night. The vfvaphonp selection is an itptn by Mr. Albert Whclau as "Ibe whistling bowery . buy." "L'pnth nr Glory" is fl popular itPtn in the QucfO's " Tliratrv, "Amid Kayin- , Beasts'' is announpp<l for to-morrow. -Thi- Ma.i Hennlf will he- rpppa;ed t..----niebt at Ibp Princes* Thpatre. Th>> new prupramnjp for to-morrow will contain "The CnnrUft Belurn" , will hp shown for thp lasn time to-ni?h( at mo <',lohe Theatre. The proCTaimne includes a picture of th- bnrlesqne sports procession of his; Saturday. [ "Antony and Cleopatra." nn ailmirahlH | piftun- of the Shakespean-.in work. wIH be | shown at the Kingn Theatre. The fll.ni is T.imoft in length, and its proJmtiiiii is regarded as ml event of outstanding ituportan.-e in the w.irl.l of i-lnemato-CTaphy. "Kor the Wpnrins of thp i;rppn" will he repented to-night :u the Newton IMrture ''•■Judith r.f Bethulia." a oppptaru'.nr sioi-y of Rihlieal imprest, will be rppeniwl to-nisrht for thp last lime at tlie Arcadia ■•An Alpine TroßPd.v"' will be repeu;p-l , tn-nlpht at the Bmpres=« Theatre. Tlip four-act drain-.i Chuniley. a< 1 presented a; the AJhambra Theatn*. U nn ' ex'-ppillncly Interestluc story. r»p'c-e witli iliriliinc ineideni. ■■Europe in Ve-.ir,- and War" i< a singularly appropriate 1 interestin'.--eries of pictures that has bpen serured by the l.yrif Theatre mana;j-ni^nt. tlne'nMl Tnu'i'es "" a" review. n{ «Prman I tlou a: the presc-nt time.