ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 631, 7 October 1909, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOtJSE. -> Rich ;in - "stars" and rich in mirth-Jiroducing episode!, "A Bachelor's Honeymoon" continues to,;please the-largo. audiences which succeed each' Other nightly' at the Opera House. Ifisa , Grape "Palotta, Miss Roso Musgrovo, and Hiss i i l 11 RTC a "-uncommon" -galaxy of talbnt for one company, and where:. amusement is' renuired; Mr.- . Hugh J.' Ward is a host in immself. .Last .uighfswaudienco was never,'Serious -fori many minutes - On, 'end;' i The play' :will;bo repeated this ■ evening.' ' : : ■ THEATRE ROYAL ® c ellent programme being shown by the ...Puller..- Company, at;, the. Thehtro: ' Royal, this' week-is.,meeting: with well-deserved approval. Some-of r the, most interesting, films are: "A Bog s . Cemetery," "The Outcast," "The Long Arm, of tho Tho prograinmo will bo repeated this evening, ,• -* • r THE ROYAL PICTURES « - room bj»lyV ■ has long sinco become' a toayontion at His Majosty's Theatre. The pubhe-s ,for ; good kinomatograph pictures appears to :be insatiable; and there is ample justification,-for- it. "Paterfamilias", may, expenditure of. a couple of ehil- ! ■tings,' take his tnmily. on: an imaginative trip round;, the world, enjoying all: tho-'.comforfe of a linor bv the aid• of the kinematograph, and : seeing'that ..flnly the most interesting -m J cnaracteristic views, are presented, may <vhet his powers of-observation.with as much zest as though :ho and-'hisi family were "actually bn tour. .Apart from sights' and;scenes,'.,he" is given; the additional .attradtion of comic, sentimental, and tragic scenes,. enacted with force and .skill by .accomplished artists. This fare 'is fftvour at the Courtenay Placo picturo e i / y, it. LaS L e 7 programme.' was miito up; to the standard iin.-: every, respect.'" Tho recent .naval; pagoant- on; the.; Thataes was grapnically. pictured, tho impressi ve niassing •of •England s .fighting strength on'; tho 80a 'being admirably conveyed. Legend of i Orpheus" •is; series, of coloured, scones Ydopiotihc' the classic - story faithfully.-' "A Child } s Faith", is' one; ?f .those, -simple little playlets;' embodying I a sentimont that finds a..' l response in : every i riveu to desperation- by want, accen- ] tuatcd by the. sickness,of his;wife, a labourer I has.:been tempted .to take, part—in' a , fish-! poaching 'veuture. Tho . boat' is pursued and I caught-:by. the j gendarmerie, and the -man .is, 1 thrown.into prison. On the news reaching'his ' homo ..his: little girl addresses' a tender appeal" to. the Deity and-posts it out the window. It falls at the. feet of a small boy'..'of affluent .parentage, who conveys it to his father-and begs.him to-intcrcede» He does'so, obtains .the man s release, and sheds.- li * radiant glow Over the iliipo irished household bv - offering the poacher '-a situation.,: Tho little, girl' is firmly convinced that Heaven has interceded-as the result of her letter, which delightful faith forms -the pretty sentiment, involved in the drama. Another story-picture with an appeal •is "An, Old Bachelor's Find." ' He finds a tiny waif, and not knowing what to do ,with it takes her home and adopts her.-aft-Ms 'o#n. 'Years later the mother meets the child she has ,de--sbrted in, her extremity, and rathor than, be parted . from-her marnes ; the -, old bachelor. • "'The; Vultures, of Syria" . represents I vividly 6omo of tho adventures of "Don Q," the' noted , brigand, made famous in a popular magazine. Nature .studies 'per the kinematograph are always,popular.. This week the wonders of Hio silkworm claim : an, absorbed attention. Other good pictures aroi A Well-Deserved .Revenge," '(The Banks'of the .Ganges" .:(a ' beautifullycoloured .filmy,'"Farmer. Giles ,in, Loudon;' 1 ! "Theodore's Bbard," 'and a'"miscellaneous- lot I of French pictures, including some excellent views of a great , swimming carnival it • Marseilles. •

The Eoyal Pictures management has Secured the Town Hall for Labour Night, with the intention of. presenting ah entirely hew* aftd interesting programme of pictured.. Particulars Will appear in our advertising, columns. BENGOUGH Tho last of a series of entertainments by Mr. . Beigough'. Was. given last .night in' the Concert Hall, when there was a good attendance. ■ The entertainment Was under the auspices of tho New Zealand Alliance, and Mr. Bengough devoted his timo to a .very clever treatment of the. liquor question, discussing it from tho point of view of a prohibitionist, and illustrating his meaning by many brilliant sketches.' Tor one thing lie droiy the picture of a very , ordinary young man with a wineglass set high in ono corner of tho sheet,'and by a series of clever touches ho transformed the youth jnto a tattered disroputablo in* the grip of a serpent whoso mouth was formed from the wine-glass. Then drawing a monoybng, ho .transformed, it into ; tho fignro' of - aliquor capitalist. He had a littlo fnblo about tho. ants whdso homo wits devastated by an anteater, and who all the whilo regarding tho destroyer as a necessary evil, devoted.: their timo to disenssion of tariff reform: and kindred ■questions', • and- a picture of a donkey^covered, with leechcs in a marsh was supposed to illustrate the fnble. That was his hit at the •revenue question. 'Mr. Bengontrh. was assisted bv Miss Dora, Carroll ns pinnkt, Mr. Borneo Gardiner, Who gave three whistling soloi, and-Mr, , Claude 1 AUani who. taw.two-songs*-• v