ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 161, 1 April 1908, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

/ OPERA HOUSE "TKeAMummyT' and -is" proving 'its j morithby.'''dravring' largo' audiences at tKo Opera House: To-morrow jiigfit local- play : goers-to-'see • the- firstperfpnuancoi-'of' '-'Peter's' Mbther" .. the caused - a sensation -'in;- London;• last,, ; year. London; said - the "Westminster-; Gazette", pf March ,4, .it was the 'subject.Vbf ';bets';aUvthe : Cliibs'>' ; as - to' whether ' ; 'it- 'records'- .and ; be transferred:to-'a;fifth'ith'eatre;/-iftef the run at Wyndh^'sV^'Eeter'sVAldtherVirwa's^.taken-witi-.out. .a 'pause ;.to:.tlio';Apqllo;-\-it ~.wos; tlien: staged' at the. Con^e'dy,V:and:;.a'fter.v('itr.ds l; ;at ''the!' Hay-' market,'' changes -which nbtjiShake its po'pula'ritV'in- the'. leasf.r "Petpr's'Mother"'can, only .be, played; here for;-Jthreo;'nlgj(tß[iaS*.on( Monday, night The-Eed Lamp" will,be produced,.under arrangement-with.' Mr; 'J. '• tfJt; is .the intention. ■ of-."'Mr; ' Plemtijing.';t'o ; ,.reviv'o "Dr. . .Wake's - Patient" during-, pi'esent 'Season..'- • ■;'! :''''.:.p." ; -' . • • WBSFS PICTURES, " There was. another very 'large; audience at 'West's, Pictures in the Town Hall last evcmn" when the previous ovcning's.calj'i.tal programme \viis repeated.'. An entire .ehang?' is promised for this evening,- when' a''number. of'hew;fiims that have; never yet been seen -in Wellington will be rec-lea off. The manag'em^it.announces a spscinl concession ,in priceSj.fpr-.the:closing nights.'i ■ ■ v ; : - . THEATRE: ROYAK ; The Theatre Royal-was' wellvfilled''again.' last evening by : ah 'audience thatjobyiouslv. eiijoved itself. ■ The. ''star" turns now-; before "the. Wellington public- ore provided"-b>;.';Jliss Eva' Lee and.. her . piccaninnies, <tho, UariuoiiiOus' Huxham's, Jack. Willis, and the Banvdnls.- ' . ' THE ROYAL PICTURES. '.. • . • • A ."large audience wns; present"-; at' His Majesty's -Theatre last : night'- to hear the- result ol' tlw -weekly limerick': competition announced Tlio following secured -'the.prizes •— First, .L. Swanson, Upper.., Adelaide Road: second, divided between Alfred. Passmore,' 44 Marjoribanks' Street, and . <X'. Flavoll, Webb Street; third, C. Cross, 10 : Waterloo Avenue. To-night, a .completo change Of programme. will be given, consisting of pictures just arrived from Sydney. The following! "star" subjects ' will bo included"Wild' .Birds -at Home," "The, Shipowner's, Daughter,". '.'.'lncendiary Fi-tMnaiu" and "The Haunted House." I