ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 199, 16 May 1908, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

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There,'T\as+>a.i.largo attendance at the Opera : JjtoUso;-, last: ovoning,- when' '.'Tho - Heart, gf ■ a ( ;H«ro'/ was staged for tlio last • ■ <time,., m!' The .Midnight Hoilr" .will •bo presented. It.is .an.entirely, now comedy drama from,jtho -pen ~of„ Edward Tlmno. in.' .. four: acts, and will bo produced for tlio first , time: in; Wellington.' .The, plav was recently produced- in Chnstchurch. , Tho drama is ' ■ interspersed with many-humorous situations- : It- wiJl.-bR'- staged Jor.-a limited number of ■ Tiiglit^.'^wKeiv^aiiotlier'^change ; .of > programme Mil take place , \ j THEATRE ROYAL \ ' Tlio, programme Whrcli. has'been given dur- ' ' T? e n^ l ° ,voe^/ Wl tlv'much success by Messrs' ■ Fiillcr. ,ani l vSons'.. J ,Company ~was presontcd '- r?u .-night, when, also, tharlesfPrt. :artist, made• , . <ns final, appearancc. : ' An entirely < new pro- ; gramme ;»ill.irbe presentod"to-night- • TOWN HALL ORGAN RECITALS i M'Wshsn:, Barnett -j-lias . arranged a Bpecially, attractive programme for the Town .rlall organ! recital ..on" Tuesday evening next VV agnor,«; -overture will bo the .: i; piecS: do resiStanceV' ;and; tho pro£9K?P?. J} moroment • • of Rmck ; s • Fliifo .Concertoj. ."Simple by. and DmnejViek 13 BaCh ' Rllclnbci fi er > " THE -SCARLET PDIPERNEL " . v annbuncoinent :. : is , that or. .the appeardnce at Ltho Opera House commencing next, e\ening, of Mj' t n'Nir vi ' Ola Humphrey, and J[r J. 0. .W.illmmsoj).^..©ramatie Compaiiv • The opening jjjorluction will be -Baroness -Orczy's romantic "The Scarlet Pimpernel," Jhjch ran„for 1000 nights in London, and, ; ? a y", , S-' ) SW.i'W?ent]y:i revivcd r ..is again provTh^'Sydncy'public, ' it is said, endorsed -the English verdict h\ . crow ding.-tJ!e. r !f 110 va 1 . for seven weeks " ■ ■ aid-.in Auclda.nd and the provincial towns of the Dominion . ;:: r e ,?9™ s jboing.ostablislied. The dramatist' is .said .to;have. constnicted;'a narrative. : . ,ot„ engaging .intqrest .oiv.tho exploits of that ,:romantic^, personage .'/'Tlio' Scarlet Pimper- ': fiP -ii- -■ :, '^{ l<> ''- B i o i'y-is ; --_&*t'atGd to,', abouncf in ' -J "®''' l ' l^ye.s ting;, situations;., stirring in-- ; ' ; cident,'and:pieturesquo':'channv with a liberal Julius as_'.Sii: -Percy Blakoney, i& • placed W'a. most-;congenial.role, as is; Mip;iEtanphrey'asiJilarguerito. Blake- ' '^'^;W|lhaipson's, 'company:; includes' Mossrs Reynolds Denni^ton,"Dudley Clihten Harh Phimncr, • Herbert. Bentley, Leslie Victor Chalmers, Roge Rupert Jylnn/Alf, Andrew, Stnn]Sy Walpole ClnsT Collman,, Misses Ada Sterlihg MarJowc, ,K, Chalmers,;,ElivTn Harvey 10 To\lcrfl, and Jean Martin.. 'Tlio season will extend ovor twenty nights, and tho productions to bo staged are " The Scarlet PimKr','')! I,?n£ pril ? r • : . of irZenda,'.' . ClaudiAn, and ■ A Royal Divorce." Tho ... bo.x plains for- tho"'first-W nights -of " Tlio .. bcarlet' PnfiperriiSllie opened at; [the . '- 'Oil ' T'ue'sday morning. ;■. , : --: -. , MISS' JEAN HOWISON. ;_ r 'At' : th°.':Masonio ; . jJall' on;^Monday,-.night" Miss-'Jean .Howison. willrdoliver the first of ' •hor:senes ,pf.-lecturos,- 1 - i ;vTlie. subject, tlio'.lady '• has , of wlioso works made a: study.'- That sho lids a thorough , insight ihtq ;the,. writer's works is shown: by criticism in, other places. As for example: "The.selections from 'Beside -lu given under '= r he . f «l lo "' l "?i. ( |ivisions: ' Drumtoehty Qliaractoristics^ Mrs;: Macfayden and tho .Alinis- , ters --Jlow. J)r...Maoluro-l'.savit". $e Llfb* , of Ann'e Mitchell' and 'Life and Death of UeelumyMaclurb.' , Of. tliqse, the best, of course, since it was tho niosr, dr,iniai.ic, and tho Reader, was rather more effective in pathos .than m humour, was 'the'-'account' 1 of Dr Maclures ride; with' the Queen's surgeoii to save the life of sweet Aiinio Mitchell: and next to that'was .theldeath" scene of Macluro Miss Howison. possesses a "clear, rich, resonant voice, which carried every syllable of hor 1 lines, .to the. farthest corner of- the Iiall; and her native] knowledge 'V>f., Scotch :'onablcd. her to .deliver, its ;pcc'uliariti6s with'ana'toi'aln'ess ■ that its' meaning'morg readily intelligible, than when iittcmptc'd. by-'.'v roadoi- , not to tho manner born.. No greater compli- | ment can be paid lfiss i Howison tliarl to stiy " / that tho fact that almost'- her eiitiro prp- , grammo had been.read in Rochester by tlio . author himself in no wisc detracted.'from tile jnjoyrnent-pf hor.ireadings."