ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 154, 24 March 1908, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

- THEATRE ROYAL. The popularity of the se'rio.us sketch in ■vaudeville'..entertainments is.-'demonstrated by the reception that is being recorded nightlv to the Grahams, in the .coster interlude "Mo and Er. ■ The little piece—a tabloid drama— is . capitally acted bv Mr:. Fred, Graham and Jliss .Dent, who make it a; success- by sheer force of well-directed talent.. Other performers well worth seeing are Melvin- 'and Framley, James Opie, Lavmia Tyson, Jack Willi's, Vaude and Lesseo, and the 'Seyfer 'Twins

HIS -MAJESTY'S THEATRE.... Ivinematograph pictures as an.entertainment are in the ascendant. 'Notwithstanding the strong opposition, tho Royal Pictures attracted a large audience ,to '. His Majesty's Theatre last evening. The-winners of the latest limcrick competition. w©r6 announced as. follow: —Ist, J. Douglas, Wadestown; 2nd J. Callishaw, Barker Street; ; 3rd, A. Raven' Clyde Quay. This week's portfolio' of films .is certainly one of the best'yet.presented..- : WEST'S PICTURES.. There was a large audience present to witness the. delightfully-interesting series of animated pictures' that were presented at the Town Hall last evening. Among the best films were "A Race for Millions, "Saving the Colours," "Denizens of the Deep," arid some very beautiful views of. Inverness. There is to be a complete change of . programme tomorrow evening.

HERBERT FLEMING'S COMPANY. Mr. Herbert Flemming's' new- English company commences its Wellington season on Saturday next.' Upon Mr.'< Flemming's shoulders has fallen the mantle of the BroughBoucicault management of days gone by. It was .due largely to him that the BroiighFlemming Company wis formed, with- the object of carrying, on the traditions of the older organisation, and if was . his enterprise entirely that kept . that company in being after the lamented death of Robert Brough Since Mr. Flemming's last visit to this citv ,he has visited London, and has procured new pieces, and also a new company. On Saturday evening next the result of''his visit will bo submitted: to tho Wellington public for its approval. The first four nights of tho season will be devoted to "The Mummy and the Humming' Bird," a play that had a run in London of ,370 nights. A dramatisation lif the novel, Peter s Mother, • will then be staged. The box plan for the two productions will be, open at Jtlolliday's - to-morrow morning.

MATINEE ORGAN '• RECITAL. . Mr. Maughan Barnett will.give a.recital on the Town Hall organ to-morrow afternoon 'it four o'clock. The programme will include Mendelssohn s second sonata:, ; tho overture to "Zampa," Schubert's "Am Meer," and a new piece by Mr. Godfrey (Madame Clara Butt's accompanist).- , '• ',• ; "OUR BOYS." The first performance, by tho Mountebank Dramatic Society,'' of Byron's famous coimVv '* Our Boys, will be given at the Opera House to-night, in md of the Veterans' Home,' whci a large number of local veterans will be pre-' sent, as well as. many of'the officers of the New Zealand Defence Forces',- and the Volunteers. By permission of Lieut.-Coi; Bauchon Officer Commanding the District, dress uniforms will be worn.' A" strong 'committee of lending citizens has been formed, the members of which are working hard to.bring the undertaking to a successful issue. '