ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 269, 6 August 1908, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL. . There was again a full houoo at Fullers' last-.night, when the r programme was repeated.l Mr. Fuller .meets the wishes, of his., audience, and naturally, they are duly responsive. Miss Maud [Fanning, tlio coon impersonator, received .an excellent hearing, as ..did tho Elliott and Cambry Sisters.-Tho other, members ,;of tho company; acquittal themselves well. . v:;' -.. .HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE.' ■ ... ...." Tho boisterous weather did not deter patrons_ of tho Royal. Pictures from venturing • •out ' in! largo numbers . last 'night,, and tho 'popular amusement resort was crowded to witness the change of . programme. Tho new pictures aro excellent, and wore warmly applauded.' Noarly twenty subjects were ' .shown,, and .'they were, sufficiently varied to 'ploase.; ' Notablp examples were, "A Sailor's Lass,"' ' "The-, 1 Night Watchman;" V "The Slayo," . "An ' Old Man's Darling," "Rob'biu'g'tlie'Mail.''' 1 Several of .the pictures' are excellently coloured.'; Tho'comic section is rich-' with4aughter-makers,' and tho audience.. greatly' enjoyed-"A Loafer's Lucky Day", and "'The Billiard Fever," .which showed how for .making cannons, affected an arid ythe trouble it brought upon Kim?" , "Th 6 Wrong Flat" and; "Lazy Jim's JjU'ck"_!w6'HCalso'highly humorous. A mati-. held - oir Saturday,...

''r. ;t ' •chamber "concert! , ; •.; ' The first of a series of three : chamber concerts organised by -Messrs.-J. Maughan Barnott;' Max Hoppe, and John Prouse, assisted b)-}Mr; F;-®...Johnstone, was given in tho sGoncert -Room,-. Town Hall, last evening, be■fore an "'audience which-' was' somewhat': disnicrit of the', enterta'mj No doubt;, had the' Weather been mora ' hospitable/ ; :a 'more 'encouraging* attendance hvoiild haveibeen- recorded. Tho programme—■ aii; excellent "selection, of six numbers—open-ed'-with a .'concerted item,- "Sonata in A"' (Brahhis); by Mr. Maughan Barriett' (piano) 'aiid'Herr'Max-Hoppe, (violin), which, on tho ; whplej |" was'ti'-'sucsessful-.effort; tho second' _ being : parvThß''lAst' movement, i"allegi-etto I^i'aMo|.6}";'"was': alsd' well played. Hen - : Hoppe did%ot ; -appear to' be in his ; .usfual form Tdurihg'-the :: 6p'ening movement of .the-.sonata|i.his.-.playtng being palpably faulty ■in-tune; later on,;-howbyerjrthere:was very little.to .cavil at. l '. 'There was ono other concerted < lifimber,'-:. Rheinborger's magnificent : ";'-Tri^ ; in'oA,M..,',by s'M'f. •;.Maughan - ' Barnett' libppev (violin);'. 1 and Mr. F.' MfJfihustorion C-doUo);.'iThis- was an. excel;'lerit" effort, the' "andantiiio, expressivo'.' and .tho 7 f 'iillcgro'cori fuoco" being particularly suc'dessfuh —Mri,;Johnol?rouse,.'who was in capi--tailTvoice, sang four Mainacht," 'aS'd '"Ith Grolle Nicht"-(Brahms—in the GeridanV ;and 'Itorbay's "Far and High" and -"Had-'a Horse" —most artistically, his sing-irig-'o£ t-lie. last-mentioned item .being, po lieart'ily th.at.. lie,,>vas, compelled: to, add . -cannot, help , lonng. .Thee" {John's).. ... Of ;his four .songs, "Ich .Grollo ■Nioh't"; was most successful ; f hijii' iiii ,pb)i}trpf,view,/.if ,on<j. : excepts ' oortai^'slight, orj-.ors jn tho. enunciation of . tho gutturals'of. the lariguagoir Mr. Prouso.w-as accompanied by .Miss C. Prouse. • ;Herr Max -Hb'ppb,; jvas.;, accpmpai;icd by,. .--Miss. Beatrico" Richirioni, played Fabian Hblifeld's' -"soli-n"phanson d'Amour" r and , "Elfen' : Tari'z;'", : : The former.;was -pleasingly interthe latter to..be. _an eccentrio jan'd' fanciful, albeit most rtion'p-'ahd the violinist .in..his:interpretation s?aiight!tho true spirit of. tho composer's in:tejiti£i'n; his playing beingiioartily applauded. ; Mr. : -'Siaughaiir Barnett contributed a Scliu-?]3eTt;';'bi-acketr--thb well-known "Impromptu ; ii\- A-'Tlat" %nd 'the' "Minueto in -B Jlinorj" 'latter c being-i rather; an:- attractive ; ; 'num-. : bei".- u - 'Tho.-'first'movement-.--of. tho ']Improm'iH'u'.' to., lack. the., characteristic "rhythm "qf| .bars, ,Mjr. Bar'ueMJk', 'concept ? t'ibll r "of. its r /tr'eatmei]t';-appearing''t ( b I .bo some:wliatr;di%'ontrfr'oni tho usual interßrotatiqn.' ivak'a'.favour ; of insipidrieis ; about-ft. ■' :f' vilidloj'' tho, ontertainmolit was of ' character, and ' tho re--series - should "''deserve 'well ! ;o'r tho public.'". 5