ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 500, 6 May 1909, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

k:^;}':-\y~ opera' hottsii... ',•■•■.•■■"•:•■.; '■"Two-Little Sailor Boys" attracted a largo, audieioe to .the Opera House last It is .'a ' drama . *ith a plausible-enough : 6t6ry which f?ains ill conviotion by tile very o»ditttble peHomiance given by Gunn s success Mb 'Hiss-Bstttrifco Ilolloway,. .Miss ttZ E U Lillian'Meyers,;Messrs. H. Bentley, J. :B. Atholwood, A.;Notillo,,L.- do Chateau, ;.tind Halloy. ■■ ■:■ ■!: , ■ ■ ' Only three ni6ro performances of the drama can bo given, as arrangements havO ( boen mado to stage, the Australia^. drama, "A- Miner's Trust, , ' on Saturday .evening ./ : ■. \'--.

■;".;; : ;'":; :'/:THEATEBEOTAt. ■' ',/ . . 'The excellent programme, of ..'pictures that are' being, shown at the Theatre 80ya1..-this teelrgains in-interest by tho Harry Lauder oinephone,items, Wlilcli'give a very good idea, of.th6 : .humorous powbr of that hlgn-salanea bomodtan;. There will'bo ft coapletp ch&n&« ol programme-on Saturday

:.•:■ ".; ■: : ' :: .',;': KOtAL.HCTtJKES., v : ,' v-:,' |V .It is'an old story.'to'say that His Majesty's Theatre is crowded' on the'first ..night-, of a new programme. .It was paekod to the doors last evening •by ' a crowd ■•■ that look for their weekly-kinematographib treat nsthey :u6_ior. ratatoes; at dinnor. The potatoes may,';f<iil, at tho kinematograph.'never.' Xftst; evoninss programme was roally.worth a full house, ino Nick Carter" series of' detettivo drnmas ie resumed in a capitally .delineated; story of a. oafo esploit , in : which ■'■ a man' in, drugged arid : robbed, and/the , thief passes ■, liimsilf off '•■'■ 09 ■ tho : robbed," whilst . tho. ;; victim writhes bound hand ..■orid foot in 'a hotel bedroom.--Niok Carter is-dolled; in to traoo the missing man by the Inzer's faihor, and, of : eoursi>,i doeg.-this with ■ nil'the intrepidity and rcsouwe of. ft. Sherlock Holmes.' One of the most Beautiful series of'views js that depicting' Stockholm and its onvirbnments Sunder enow. .' The :ine-covored water'. is shown; .with steamers':orashing ,afld; smashing -their. ' way , through tho/frozen.- onist;; th«ro' aro-. : .distant views of ,sk(iters; and tobogganists, ruid.Tiiost beautiful .'of all are half,a/dozon.climpsfa cf woodland '■ and ' gardens transformed into -.icyfah'y lands, by . Jack-Frost.' Another, snow "picture concerns a party, of..wood-gatherers, who leave.:the camp injChargß of. a small boy.. The oamp-fire goes out; and the boy.'fceUnganxkus, gefs into the,horse-drawn sleigh, andi.-jons , in. Searoh of the. men, only to loso himself in tho snow-covered wastce. . He.falls cxhansted in tho snow,,and.tho horse seeing his plight, trotsback to tho.'.canip, /whore'tho'loss of the l:oy has filled;all with' consternation. By Us actions the horse .indicates that' he .will load them. to ( where the boy is, and does so with the-'greatest ,' Apart from the; picture itself, it is interesting-.t0.-iioto how even the horse; is trained for the purposes of thekinematograph. "The Geishas at Hpino" is a prettily coloured film, showing α-bovy of:quaint littlo Japanese women taking tea'and porforming their curious dances. In,"Miss Faust"—somewhat Temotely founded on Goethe—an-old lady sells'her soul to. Satan for .yonth and its joys. Valentino, also'a lady, is killed in a duel, bnt the gnardian- tmgd, with anything but-, an angelio; face, hovers-round, andplays tricks with,tho female Faust, but eventually sees --that -she- roaches a very theatrical paradise, in company with her malo Marguerite. Other good pictures are "A (Marathon Race," "Virginias and Claudius," •'Cingaleo Village,-. Life," ' ."Paul's Party," ■Eope-making," and "Tile Dentist's Daughter." Such a programme, should attract largo audir 'ehces'...during thei. present week. The usual matinee will be given ou Saturday, afternoon.

y\' : a successful-cantata: : : -, ; . :■ In conneotion with the thirty-sixth anniver-sary-of the ifothodist Church in Mol«sworth ■ Street, the cantata , :"Faith Triuinfna'nt," one of G.-.F. Koot'B;works, was produced in the, church'last evening by the choir \rith the assistance ..of. friends and an orchestra. It is evidently ft favourite work; as this mokes the third rendering of.it in reoent years. There Was a good attendance, and judging from the frctmont. applause tho ! performance was thoroughly .enjoyed. Tho composer has taken for. his theme the'healing in Damascus of Naaman tho leper,: and it gives good scope -for some -very ; fine .solos ; and- choruses. .The eolos were undertaken by Mrs. Gadding, as tho Queen; Mrs. Tanner, Wife of Naainan; Mis. Halliday, the. Hebrew Maid I; .Mr. Bryant, Iran tho Prophetj •,Mr. 'Hobman, . Naotnan—who, all feained the evident approval! of their listeners. Mrs. HallidayV as tho Hebrew Maid, had-a beautiful thing to,sing In "The Silver Sun of Night.' , Perhaps one of tho ■ most exacting solos sung during tho > evening was "A Cloud is on the Mountains" in thointorni scene, sung by '. Mr. Bryant, ns Iran. Mr. Hobman, as Naaman, fa Vo, a good rendoring of,"Now, Sing to Jehovah." The chorus i singmc was particularly good, * and Mr. Sims, the; conduotor, should foel pleased with his work. ■