AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16850, 2 June 1920, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

—* THEATRE ROYAL. The Theatre Royal was again we!! filled , W e:R ,." Li = fat,!ir -' " v '" as leper.ted to ?♦ auaiencs. Mr John D. O'.tiara, Mi .^ lz ? Ue larker, Miss Diana Wilson, Miss Marian ilarcus Clarke, and the rest ct the talented company, were all at their beat, piece was, as before, a big suecc&s. Ihe Aew Zealand Geaeon will bs brought to a close to-night, and the company leavo for I Australia to-morrow. OPERA HOUSE. The bright new programme at the Opera Jioueo was repeated before a large audience ls.st night. Mr 'Walter George's "Sunshiiio 1. layers" added ta their popularity by th-sir version of tho laughable revue, "Ttic King of Dun no u- here ski," whilo in the vaudeville section Jennings p.nd Gerald, Goodhue and Oliver, Yinco and £va Courtney, McXamara and Clinton, Louis Loudon and the Nino Wonders, all appeared with success. Tlie programme will be repeated to-night. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. "The Career of Katherine Bush," a picturisation of Elinor Glyn's famous novel, i 3 the chief attraction at Everybody's Theatre this week. There is a strong supporting programme. Tho same films will be screened at to-day's ssssions. CRYSTAL PALACE. The stirring seriai, "The Grey Seal,'' the Paramount Artcraft picture, "Out of Luck," starring' Dorothy Gish, and "The Dazzling' Miss Davison," together with the various supporting films, were screened again, to large attendances ct Crystal Palace yesterday. To-day tho same pictures will be shown. - LIBERTY THEATRE. "The Story of Ginger Mick," and the rest of the varied and excellent programme r.t tho Liberty Theatre, attracted good attendances at the various sessions yesterday. The programme will be repeated to-day. QUEEN'S THEATRE. Each session at the Queen's Theatre was well attended yesterday, when the new programme, headed by Sessue Hayakawa, in "Tho Gray Horizon," was repeated. The same pictures will be shown to-day. STRAND THEATRE. "Riders of tho Purple Sage," featuring William Farnum, is proving a big draw at tho Strand Theatre this week. With its eupports it will bo repeated to-day. GRAND THEATRE. "The Daughter of the Gods," featuring Annette Ke.lerman, continues to draw crowded house® to the Grand Theatre. Last night every seat was occupied, and patrons [ are requested to rojervo tneir seats as the i film will be. screened for only a few more days and nights. "A Daughter of tho Gods" is recognised a3 the crowning film achievement of tho moving picture world; it stands as a record in film production. It is a notable spectacle, which in point of richness of setting and scale of magnitude, equals, if not eclipses, anything previously shown on the scrceen. The specially prepared musical score is splendidly interpreted by twelve of the leading musicians of the city, under tho baton of Mr A. L. Sutton. The box plan will be at Tho Bristol until 5 p.m., after that hour at the Theatre. Telephone, 2934. "POSSUM PADDOCK." Kate Howarde, under whose direction. "Possum Paddock" will 'bo produced at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, came into Sydney from a sojourn in the backblocks, where she had been writing her great comedy success, "Possum Paddock." The play is said to teem with true local colour of tho bush; tho reason is because " Miss Howarde went to the bush, to get the atmosphere. Thero are, it is claimed, no crude caricatures of Australian outback types in this play, rather are all the people real. This fact tends to mako its great human appeal.- "Dad AlcQuade" is. a real o'.d farmer, and "Muni McQuade" is. the actual lovable type of bush mother. The boys, "Billy and Bob," aro just as unsophisticated ao one would like them to be,-and reeking' with many funny sayings. The company is said to-be a strong and capable one. The box plan is now open at The Bristol. Private ad.vices from Mr Harry Cohen, at Sydney, announced that ho had completed arrangements with Messrs J. and N. Tait, under which they will handle for him the Australasian tour of "Scandal," the New York comedy success, armed with tho of which Mr Cohen came from the United j States.