AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15223, 10 March 1915, Page 12

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE.

Vaudeville patrons are being well repaid by a visit to tho Opera Houso this week. Stirling and Lovo provide ono of the best musical and humorous turns presented for some time past. Tho rope-climbing competition creates a great deal of interest, and the final will be given on Friday. All the other turns are well selected. PICTURE ENTERTAINMENTS. His Majesty's Theatre was again well attended last uight, when the new programme presented for tho first timo tho previous evening was repeated. Tho same films will bo screened to-night. Tho pictures at Everybody's Theatre (notably tho elaborate study of cow-boy life) attracted further large attendances at all sessions yesterday. The programmo will bo repeated at tho usual hours .to-d_.y. Tho pictures at the Queen's Theatre were again in popular demand yesterday, and the various films screened wore all witnessed with tho keenest interest. The bamo programme will be _, presented to-day. "Mabel's Move" (Keystone comedy) and tho powerful Vitagraph drama, 'When Iron and Steel Meet," attracted large attendances at tho Globo Theatre yesterday. The same pictures will be prosentod at all sessions to-day and to-night. "The Ordeal," an exciting military drama, and other pictures of tho current programmo were screened to an appreciative audience at the" Sydenham Theatre last evening. Tho programmo will he repeated to-night for the last time. "CHARLEY'S AUNT." The perennial farce, "Charley's u nt 'i_' will be introduced to Christchurch pkiygoera once more, to-morrow evening, when the "Charley's Aunt" Comedy Company will commence a brief season at tho Theatre Royal with the late Brandon Thomas's famous play The company, which includes a number of Wellington amateur performers, played a highly successful season in tho Wellington Opera Houso recently, and it also produced tho farce iv a "" mber of' tho smaller towns of tho Wellington province. Th*} cast will be headed by Mr Norman Aitken, and also includes Mr Norman Hales, Mr C. Bentley Russell, Mr George Burnotto, < Mr Frederic Hughes, Miss Ruby Scott ' and Miss Addio Evans. Later" in th© « season "Tho Pnvato Secretary," a n- . other farce which has alwnv.. been popular in the Dominion, -will" be re- < vived by the company. The Ikdx plan is J open at Messrs Milner and Thompson's. ■ "SF.. T J ITTL K~VUSTRALIANS." r _ With Sydney's hall-mark upon it, "* Seven Little Australians," the Ethel f lurner play that has had a very _mceossful run at Wellington, will be in- _ troduced.at the Theatre Royal by Beau- ti ™. on t, Smith, from March 18th to » <Uth _. The four-act play, with it., ingenious idea of sharing tho interest between *■ adult and juvenile actors, ran nino _> weeks in Sydney at the Palace Theatre, e> and created great interest. Ethel F T . U ™ er ' B book is woll known as a S child « story, but tho dramatisation has « proved a big success , among adults, h. iNeither too young for tho old nor too N old for tho young," one writer de- '*" scribed it. In Wellington, at the open- H ing matinee, nearly fifteen hundred £ children attended, whilst at night tho s_ theatre was equally crowded, with only & thirty-five children present. Harrington _" Reynolds, tho English actor, who re- **"* cently played "Father X.11." in "The Rosary," .rill play tho leading adult character, and .special interest will at- j.'taeh to the aopenranee of Cecil Haines a. httle New Zealand girl, whoso acting Cc m Sydney was highly praised