AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15917, 2 June 1917, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' CONCERT. • The concert to be given this evening in the Theatre ltoyal by the Travellers' Concert Party in aid of the Red Cross and Lord Beresford's Fnnds, should appeal not only to Red Cross workers and to members of the Navv. League, but to everyone who in any measure appreciates the work done by the men of "the silent Navv." The party was originally established for the purpose of raising funds for charitable objects, and started with a membership of twentv-eigkt, which has since increase 3 considerably. At to-night's concert the part songs will be a n especially attractive feature. Mr A. Worsley will wield the conductor's baton. The pari sorters will include: "A Wet Sheet an J a Flowing Sea," "Breathe, My Harp." "On the March," "Pussy's in tho Well," "The Hunter's Farfwell." "Vintnp.e Son-r," "In Combat," and "Philosophy." A /.rood selection of solos. di;"ts, and ouartots will also be TfJV-rd. and two orchestral options will piv" varietv to the vocal work. Mr A. L.'Cropp will simr "The Windmill." \fr C. H. Taylor "I Don't Suppose" ond "Khaki Lad." Mr .T. H. Co.-its "The Devout Lover." and Mr E. Orchard "Adrri r nl Tom." Two nnnrtets. in "Lovelv end "Evening." will be .liven bv Messrs Soper and Cropn, and Messrs T"vlor and Cropp will cmtribi'to "Watchman! What of the Night?" OPERA HOT7SE. The current programme at the Opera House will be rjiven at this afternoon's matinee and finallv this evening. Artists concluding their seasons to-night are Celere, the eccentric musician; the Paulastos. acrobats: and the Musical Ibsons- New arrivals on Mondav night include Skinper Francis, descriptive songster; Carlton and Sutton, patter comedians; Walter Emerson, "six feet of comicality" : ,and Gwcn Hasto, comedienne. The box plan for next, week's entertainment is at Miiner and Thompson's. J. C. WILLIAMSON'S FARCE j COMEDY COMPANY. The comedy, "Baby Mine," will he produced at the Theatre Royal for the first time on anv Australasian stage, by the J. C. Williamson, Ltd., Robert Greig-Beatrice Holloway Farce Comedy Company, on Saturday night next. This marks an event in the theatrical history of New Zealand, as never before, it is stated, has an English success been first produced in the Dominion "with an all Australian company. The box plans for the first four nights of the season will be opened at Miiner and Thompson's on Wednesday. . "Baby Mine" was first produced in New York, after -which it ran to a long season in London, played by Mr Weedon Grossmith and Marguerite Clark, now famous in the "movies." It was in London that the J. C. Williamson firm acquired the Australasinn rights. Margaret Mayo wrote the comedy in three acts; a sitting-room and two bedrooms, and the cast includes several babies who belong to everybody but the right parties. A wife desires to adont a child to her husband. The husband arrives home before the infant is obtained. The telephone is set going, and there is a frantic rush to the home by all and sundry "to anv old place for r.ny babv." Tho fun begins when the babies begin to multiply. 'Naturally the comedy would ho incomplete without a kidnapping episode, but it would not be fair to give the plot away, as surprise counts for so much in pieces of this description. I

CANTERBURY WOMEN'S CLTJB CONCERT.

A concert in aid of the Lady Liverpool Fund will be given by the Canterbury Women's Club in the Choral ttall on the 16th inst. The programme will include the song eyefe "In a Persian Garden" (by- special request of tho Entertainment Committee), consisting of: Soli and quartets by Mrs Gower Burns, Miss Woodhouse, M T A. E. Petty, and Mr Rex Harrison. Other items will be: A sons by Mrs Gower ''urns (with flute obbligato by Mr E. Jamieson), a song by. Miss Orchard; pi.mofortn soli by Miss F. Cannon, a 1-rio for flute, clarinet and oboe by three members of the Symphony Orchestra, parts songs "Ave Maria," "0 Memory," and "You Stole my Love" by tho club choir and friends (30 voices), Toy Band by 20 performers. The prices of tickets are 3s (reserved), 2s, and Is. ITie concert will bo under the patronage of xhe Countess of Liverpool, th® .Warden of the club. •