ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 303, 16 September 1908, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE.• ; ' The last performance of "The. Fatal Wedding" will be given by the Meynell and Gunn Company, ait the Opera House this evening. To-morrow evening will be presented for the first time in- Australasia a new drama entitled .'-'The Old Folks : at Home," by- Mr. J. A. Campbell, author of "The Little Breadwinner." Tho caste lias been strengthened for this production, and tho management is sparing no effort to make it :a notable event,of. the-presents theatrical season.' Included in' the play T ds a-'plantation-" scene, which will be enlivened by songs, choruses, and dances executed by the troupe of clever children ' who are 'attached to ■ the • company. , s THEATRE ROYAL. ' Owing to tho, remarkablo ■ success which has attended the Burns-Squires picture show at the Theatre Royal, the management has decided to extend the season' .until Friday evening next. The. happy combination of the splendid series of animated views showing the sports in progress at tho Stadium at the Franco-British. Exhibition with the long film showing the historic battle for the world's boxing championship lias' taken the public fancy, and never once has there been sufficient seating accommodation tc> meet tho demand. . Friday, night will be the'last of the season, as the show is to open in Auckland on Monday evening. I <C HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. . - : ■ The Courtenay Place .playhouse was wellfilled again last evening, wlien the bright programmo of the past week was presented for the last time. A complete oh.angG of programme is promised for. this 1 evening." including tho very latest pictorial novelties in tho cinematographic world. . '*S\ .r .• 7 . MR. CHARLES SAUNDERS: .Keen interest is being takSn in the. farewel lvisit of Mr. Charles Saunders, the wellknown tenor, to this city. Mr'.-- Saunders, who will appear at the Town Hall this evening, has returned to Wellington feeling better in health and voice than he has been for some weeks. Included-in the programme for this evening is a grand scena and'aria .for tenor voice (Mr. Saunders), violin i,(Herr .Max Hoppo), organ (Mr. -J. .'M, Barnett), and piano (Mr. Horace' Hunt) Entitled,. Lucifer's Soliliqiiy." ' This is a yp'ry- fine .composition by Kent-Sutton, a young English composer, , and was written "specially for -Mr. Saunders' in connection with the ■ last Nor-. wich Festival. A rehearsal of this , item was held-at., the Town Hall" yesterday- afternoon, when Mr. Saunders expressed himself as - being thoroughly, satisfied. . v.