ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1054, 17 February 1911, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

I'LIMMER-DKXNISTON COMPANY'S FAREWELL. Another enthusiastic audience attended at tho Opera House last evening to witness the farewell pcrforn'ianc« of tho l'limmer-Donniston Company. Tho bill was "A Message from Mars," a comedy which' is particularly well played by this organisation, and one which gives a certain guarantee that what the company docs it does well. The company leaves for Sydney to-day by the Moeraki, but there is every prospect of another tour with new plays later in the year. If tho standard of performances is maintained a uarni welcome should await the attractions Messrs. I'limnier and Dennistou pre sent in New Zealand in tho future. THEATRE ROYAL. Fun was plentifully provided at the Theatre Royal last evening by the circle of"merrymakers who occupied the boards ill tho first half. Tho star item of the evening, the one-act comedy, "Tho Power of tho Idol," by Mr. F. Graham and Miss Nellio Dent, was again n great attraction. All the items of tho long programme were well received. HIS MAJESTY'S. • Change night at His Majesty's drew its usual largo crowd. One of tho special features of the new films was a dramatic set entitled "Tho AVay of Life." It followed tho lifo of a young girl with whom, two,musicians were in love. One' of them wins her, but she turns out to bo a shrew, and her husband leaves her. Ultimately ho gets a divorce and marries a former pupil.- Tho divorced wifo consoles herself by marrying the unsuccessful rival.. Another fine film depicts tho process of maskinorgo fishing, and is also interesting from the' excellent views, if gives of the fishers' camp and surroundings. The "Hip Van Winkle" series, a "Tannhauser" production, was well received and beautiful scenery was seen in the picture showing tho waterfalls of Bohemia. This charming country must ever exercise its scenic fascinations. In many respects it is quito apart from other countries, and its characteristics are qunintness and quiet peaceful beauty. The views of tho waterfalls also served to show to what a stage of perfection animated photography hiis now bsen carried. Tho "I'oetry of the Lake" was a very fino film. "The Artists' Ruse" served to keep tho spectators in a state of merriment, and there was' plenty of attraction also in "Comedy and Tragedy," "Day of Storms," "Pleasures of tho Sea," and others. There will be a reproduction this evening. It .is a programme well worth seeing. .

KING'S THEATRE. [ A splendid lot of new pictures were presented for the first time ill WellingI ton last evening at the King's Theatre. Tho quality all round was first class, and tho choice of subjects was ns n rule of especial interest, 'i'lie public mind is still occupied by tho extraordinary episode which brought Sidney Street, Houndsditch (London) botoro tho eyes of tho world. Tho pictures show the crowded streets and behind tho police-guarded multitude is a stretch of clear street lines by smoke-blackened buildings, 'with tho big tenement block in which the Anarchists aro sheltering in tho distance. Closer views show tho military and polico firing 1 at tho windows, followed by an outburst of-smoke, tho arrival of the firo brigade, and many of tho details of tho most remarkable, episode s whioh has startled London during tho past decade. Other snapshots of-the samo episode are shown, in Ihn current Pathe Gazette, which also includes a. number' of items of .current interest. Another sensational picturo isi tho ill-fated flight of two: French aviators at Issjvcn-Moulineux. The bc-furred flying men aro shown seating themselves smilingly in their seats, tho great propellers commence to whirr, tliero is a raco along tho ground and slowly and majestically tho bird-liko monoplane rises into the air and circles over tho town. Then like a flash the machine hurtles'earthward, strikes tho ground with terrific forco thbreiis smoke, 'a chaotic wreck and two dead men. ' How the. machine failed and dived so . fatally was a matter for conjeotnro only.-' One of the ■ mosti beautiful pictures imaginable depicts a trip down tho Danube from Passau to Vienna, .showing clearly the succession of ancient towns, castle?, convent#, and land marks which make the noblo. river famous. Included in tho views is one of the rock, which marks the border between Austria • and Germany. "Tho Araphhoes" is an exciting Wild West picture, depicting with fidelity an attack by Indians 011 a party of immigrants bound west in ft . lumbering prairio "schooner," and tho subsequent loscue from the red. mpn's clutches of the woman by a brnve young fellow.who, in his extremity,, is saved, by the appearance of a troop of Indian fighters. Other oxceljcnt pictures, shown /arc, ."Birds in Their' Nests," "The 'Poisoned Label," "How Women Love" (p,'French-Canadian episode), "The Music Teacher," ~ "The Artist's Puse," and.'.'Within an Inch of his Life." ; ' t STAB PICTURES. Another large audienco assembled at St. Thomas's .Hall, Newtown, last evening, "when a series of new and entertaining films ,wero screened. '.'Tho \!Daily Mail' from Forest to Breakfast Table, is an interesting industrial subject, detailing the various processes and the amount" of labour expended in tho production of that famous London newspaper. A charming story of tho American civil war,, and littlo girl's efforts to savo her father's life is unfolded in "On tho Border States." "Treasuro Hunters" is a stirring and romantic story of a search for. a pirate's treasuro in the South Seas, and of tho adventures which befell tho troasnro-hunters. Included in the programme are several .pood (comic studies, chief among them being "Mulligan's Hire Out." Other pictures which mav be singled out for special mention include:—"The Bellringer s Daughter," dramatic; "Pheasant • Fanning," industrial; and "Tilly the Tomboy." .

BUFFALO BILL WILD WEST . ' ' PICTURES. To-morrow evening at tho Opera House MacMahon Bros, will inaugurate a brief Season, when tliev will present for the first timo in Wellington nil entirely new series of moving pictures. Tho star subject will be tho famous pictures showing vividly all tho sensational acts and incidents' of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show* which is accepted without hesitation as being the largest circus ever presented in any part of tho world. Tho following • prices ' will' obtain;— Dress Circle, Is. 6u.i orchestra • stalls, Is. Gd.; other stalls, Is.; and family circle, fid. Seats may bo reserved vithout extra charge at the Dresden.