AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15488, 15 January 1916, Page 13

AMUSEMENTS.

» "NOBODY'S WIDOW." To-night Miss Muriel Starr "will bo seen 111 a modern society comedy. The plot is distinctly amusing. An American girl travelling in Europe marries an English dnke as plain Mr Clayton, and less than half an hour after the ceremony discover? him making love to another woman. So she leaves him, and in order to eopccal from her American friends that she has mado_ such a fiasco with her marriago she writes and tells them she is a widow. Yet on her return to America as Mrs Clayton, when she goes to spend a week-end at her friend Betty Jackson's Florida home, she is confronted by her husband, lie lias eoinc determined to win her back: she is as determined to keep her spouse buried, and their quarrels and sparrings form most of the play, with the breezy, inconsequent comings and goings of the forgetful and irresponsible Bcttv to complicate matters. The east is distributed as follows:—Rosana Clayton. Miss Muriel Starr: tho Duke of Moreland. Mr Charles Millward; Hetty Jackson. Miss Nellie "Bromley; Baron Alexius, Mr Austen Milroy: Fanny Owens, Miss Florence Hescon: Peter, Mr Frank Harrourt: Sadie. Miss Clarice Buckman; Countess Valencia, Miss Gertrude Boswcll; Ned Stevens, Mr Sydney Stirling. "Nobody's "Widow" will be played for three nights, and on Wednesday next '"'Under Cover" will be tho feature of Miss Starr's last three nights in Christchurch. WI.RTHS' CIRCUS. To-night will see the close of the Christchurch season of Wirths' Cirrus, and at. 11.30 the company leaves for Lyttoiton on route for "Wellington. Tho farewell matinee takes place at the usual time, but tho night show will commence hall an hour earlier. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Thc.ro will bo a matinee at His Majesty's Theatre this afternoon, when "The Carpet from Bagdad," together with the supporting. programme, will be screened, and tho list will he presented l'or the last time tonight. On Monday night there will be presented the latest release of the popular London Film Company, entitled "The Shuiamite." It is adapted from tnp novel of Alice and Claude Askew, which aroused much comment when published some time ago. The film by the London Company is said to surpQss any of their previous works for beauty and forcefulness. A strong cast includes Gerald Ames and two new leading players. There will be a good supporting list of films. The plan is at The Bristol. EVERYBODY'S. The final screenings of the current programme at .Everybody's Theatre, which includes "Tho Lure cf tho Mask'' and many other subjects, will be given this evening. In addition there is also advertised an "extra spccial" for to-day and to-night, in the. shape of a topical film, entitled "Tho Parade of 20,000 German Prisoners," captured as the result of thu recent French victory in the Champugno district. The attraction announced for next week will show some fine character acting by Helen Gardener, now with the V"itagraph Company. The film is ono of the Broadway features, and is entitled "The Strange Story of Sylvia Gray."

SYDENHAM PICTURES. The final screenings of Harold McGrath's great story, "Lure of the Mask/' will lake place this afternoon and Droning in the Sydenham Thdatre, with a spccial supporting series. On Monday r,oxt Claude and Alice Askew's "Hie Shulamite" will ho presented for the first time in Christclrurch. GLOBE THEATRE. The Globe Theatre was well patronised at the various sessions yesterday, when the current programme was repeated. The. same' iiluis will be screened to-day, GRAND THEATRE. "A Daughter of the 2filc," featuring Mary Fuller. and a good selection of supporting films made up th c current programme repeated at the Grand Theatre yesterday before woHfilled houses. The programme will bo repeated at thc usual hours to-day. QUEEN'S THEATRE. A ".spe£ial" will be shown to-day at the Queen's Theatre, depicting tlie recent great French victory, in whicn 20,000 German prisoners were talien, and in addition "to the ordinary programme there will also bo two extra pictures shown at all day sessions. MISS FLORENCE SCAPINI. On Tuesday, January 25th, Miss Florence Scapini will give a concert in the Alexandra Hall. Miss Scapini, who is a Christchurch girl, left here about six years ago for London, whore she has been .studying with thc best masters. Latterly she toured Australia with ..r Robert Paikor, the famous baritone, who is now singing with Madame Melba in America. Sixmking of one of her performances in Sydney, the "Sunday Times" says: "One of iue finest features of the concert was tho excellent violin-nlaying bv Miss Florence Scapini, who, in addition to the attraction of the urincinal, is alone worth £oinir to. hear." The l»ox plan will be at The Bristol.