ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1088, 29 March 1911, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL. One of (he principal attractions a! the Theatre Royal again last evening was the "turn" of .Miss Ellie Williams as "Hie Harem Girl.from the D.1.C." .The audience quile appreciated the originality of the performance and the cleverness of fho performer. Miss Mabel Fowler, soprano, and Miss Elma Anderson, contralto, bnlladists, were both highly popular and bad lo respond to the usual recalls.' Miss Mabel Lynne was as dashing as ever. Daly and O'Brien, in their new I urn "The Jungle Shop," had a great bearing, as also had the Rogers quartet, juvenile acrobats. Right through, the entertainment went well.

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE, Very few vacant seats wore to be found last evening at His Majesty's Theatre. The picture show right through was extremely fine, in fact the films screened last evening were of extraordinary interest. "An American Count" is a creative, film that is well worth seeing. Sensation reaches its climax in "Pirates of 15)20"*— a film depicting how in ten years' time pirates will rob and destroy' ships and steal the officers' sweethearts. The incidents ill the story arc well worked out. Comic films are also given prominence.

KING'S THEATRE. The largo attendance at the King's Theatre last evening and the hearty and frequent applause betokened the popularity of the picture exhibition there this week. "The Cascades of Liri" is a very fine film. The Pathc Gazette has a good budget of pictorial news; and another notable picture is the "turn-out" of the Moscow l-'iro Brigade. American frontier drama lias a good place, and comic and scenic pictures are also on the programme. "SEVEN DAYS." Mr. Hugh Ward and • Miss Grace Palotta, form the double head of a sort of theatrical comet, that sweeps through the country every, now and then, dragging a tail of laughing-gas ' behind it. There will be a gap in- the system when the heads separate and attach themselves to new centres of control, and, when their "nebulosity" of fun is scattered, there will also bo a resolution of the'parts of the comet into totally new forms. Now when their last outburst of "fireworks" is due, their passing should not bo lost right of. On Saturday next at the Opera House Mr. Ward and liis company will inaugurate a farewell visit to Welling* ton, when they stage, for the first time here, the farcical comedy, "Seven Days." The play is a dramatisation of a popular American book, "When' a Man Marries," and issaid to provide great scope for funraising and laughter. Mr. Y\ ard's Company is strong vocally, and the numbers throughout "Seven Days" form a great feature in its success. The box plans aro on view at tho Dresden, EUGENE OSSIPOFF. Eugene Ossipolf, the Russian baritone; gave liis last recital in tho Opera House last evening. His items were well received, as also were those of Miss Lilian Edmonds (soprano), Miss Ina Gow (pianist), and Miss Hence Lees, lyric soprano. THE NEW THEATRE. Tho New Theatro in Manners Street— the old Federal Theatre, entirely renovated and to some extent reconstructed— is to bo opened bv Messrs. G. Macmahon and M. J. Donnelly on Good Friday night. Its seating capacity will be between 500 and GOO. A programme of special quality picturcs is being secured for the opening. . "KING'S FESTIVAL." On Easter Saturday, < April 15, novel events will, take place, at. tfie Town Hall, including tug-ol'-war, for which prizes to the value, of .£ls have been allotted, Marathon races, for •a|natpp_i) jll , ind professional runners,- lii'gli-jyiisp;"events, also home-trainer (cycle) contests. Thero aro prospects of good entries for. all events. M'Namara, the high-jumper, has signified liis intention, of competing, while tho amateur Marathon race Will draw prominent distance-runners. Besides the sports events, an excellent programme of national dances has been arranged.' There will also bo some stalls, at which noveltids can be procured, also a tea kiosk, bran tubs, fish ponds, etc.