ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1168, 1 July 1911, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL, At the 'Theatre Royal last night, Pullers' Vaudeville Company repealed tho programme which lims proved popular during iho week. IJiihwiiy llrcs., comedy acrobats and hand-balancers, were accorded great applause lor their clever work,- and other performers .who were well received were Mr. Waller Warwick, a baritone making his iii>t appearance, Mr. P. It. Martin, Mr. (.ice. Jones, Miss Pttie Williams, ami .\Mm. I.uev Laviniu. To-nigiit the Rhode-bury.-, patter comedians, will reappear, and on Monday next the. company will l>u strengthened by the reappearance, of the- Elliott. Sisters, Miss Maud Panning. Mr. Arthur Elliott, and Mr. Ward Lear. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. "Jim tho Mule Boy" is one of tho most interesting story pictures in the present programme at His Majesty's. Some excellent views of the big military review at Newtown Park on Coronation Day lend a local interest to the programme. There will be a matinee performance this afternoon. "IT'S SEVER TOO LATE TO MEND." The most powerful works of 'well-known authors are gradually being adapted to tho kincmatogrHj.il. The most recent is an excellent film devoted lo Charles Reade's stirring novel, "It's Never Too Late to Mend," which is to bo presented at His Majesty's Theatre next Monday evening. The phot.-praphic representation of the well-known story is tho work of an Australian firm, awl "is said to bo very fine indeed. The pictorial version is told in forty different scenes, and interest is added by the special engagement of Mr. Alfred Boothifian, a' prominent Australian elocutionist, who will explain each picture as it is thrown on the screen. Altogether, the views l-hou!d bo well worth seeing, carrying, as they do, such strong loea.l interest in dealing with the early days of the Commonwealth. KING'S THEATRE. A fine lot of splendidly varied pictures are being shown at the lung's Theatre, I including the Coronation Review at Newtown Park. There will be a special gift matinee this afternoon. Another change of progremme is due on Monday evening. SEW THEATRE. The fact of there being a change of programme at the New Theatre yesterday attracted the usual largo attendances to this picturo house whenever new films aro screened. Among the dramatic productions, "Tho Girl's Choice" stands out as being a thrilling and well-photographed story of ranch life in the western provinces of the United States of America. The daughter, of a .wealthy ranch-owner loves, and is,,loyed. .by .a neighbouring ranchman, but one day there arrives from tho East a young millionaire,' who stays at her father's house. An attachment springs up between them, and the crstwhilo lover is considerably neglected. One day while tho girl and her millionaire admirer are out a chevnl they aro "held up" by two masked bandits, and ; much to the chagrin of -tho woman her L companion proves himself to bo an arrant coward. The outlaws, not content with , this, raid tho girl's home, but at tho critical moment the young ranchman, her old lover,, comes to the rescue. That night sho has a dream in which sho sees tho two identical robbers holding up a number of young men—all after the typo of her rich friend—and they all display the same faint-heartedness. This decides her in favour of the man whoso blood did not turn to ivater at the sight of a mask aiid the gleam of a' revolver. Many interesting and picturesque- viows arc ; .given of Scarborough, tho well-known North of England watering place, The ~ Spa. house, the beautiful promenade gardens, and other interesting scones arc clearly depicted. "Antigones" is a classic . study by the Chios Company, with an ancient Grecian atmosphere. Another good dramatic study, entitled "One Touch of Nature," narrates, how a young mother, who lost licr only chUd, could not; be comfcrlcd, and was in danger of losing her Toason, but a little street waif ; wandered into the house one day, and rc- ; moved tbo mother's thoughts from the ;' dead to the living; The prrgramme aha , contains two particular!-!- diverting'pic- , tures. "My Friend (he Doctor" and "A . Family of Vegetarians." '' ( ~ ; "A TICKET IN .TATTS." l Messrs. MacMahon' and Donnelly an > irouncc that tim sensational Australia! • picturo drama "A Ticket in Tilts" can , not be presented at the Opera 'flouso (hi: I evening, as previously attvertfscd. Tin i filmi missed Iho mail from Sydney last . Saturday. As the Opera House has beer s booked for other fixtures during tho in- ' tervening period, the first night of "S ) Ticket in Tails" has been postponed till Saturday, July i'i. SKATING RINK. ' In spite of the' numerous counter at tractions, roller skating*-continues to at ' tract a largo section of the public at . Fullers'' Olympia Rink, as i?> amply do ' monstrated by the large attendances at . the various sessions. Last -night was nc ' exception to the rule,, and merry and bright was the throng that glided round the polished floor surface to the strain; . of tho Olympia Band. To-day an extra ' session is held at 10 o'clock, in addition to the ordinary sessions, and the band i; in attendance during the afternoon.

"THE ARCADIANS." Clarke and Meyncli's "The Arcadians" Company is duo to inaugurate a Wellington season at tne Opera liouss on Thursday next, July <i. "The Arcadians" comes he'ralded by much eulogistic press matter, and the facts that tliis musical piay has been attracting crowded houses -to the .Shaftesbury Tiiealre, London, since early in 1909, and is still going strong, and that it has established a reputation as a record-breaker in tile principal clues of the Commonwealth arc sulficism proofs of its merits. The eo.iipany p.'c;tucing this play in the Dominion numbers S't, all of whom are said to bo new to New Zealand, and will include Winifred O'Connor, prima donna; Tom Walls,, ecmedian; Gertrude . Gillam, sdubrette; Fred Winn, comedian; Nellie Cavaiif.gh, character; Charley Stone, comedian; Aliey Dennctto, ingenue; Harold Thorley, laritone; Marguerite Le Hoy, Contine.ital dancer; and Dutton Nicholls. English dancer (the (wo last-named execute the famous pas do deux dance, in Act III). An added interest is the scenery, which has been specially painted by Phil Goatcher, and is said to set' a new standard for musical plays, "A Scene in Arciuly," (Act 1) being described as an ideal of the painter's art. Bevies of beautiful show girls aro seen adorned in the classic Arcadian drapes, and later in the mode* of the moment, which include unique and distinctive creations from famous costumiers in England. America, and the Continent. The millinery will include Rostand's celebrated Chantecler hat. Altogether the ensemble promises to be something better than .we hav? vol.-lrid in Wellington. In order to obviate, -my rush at the doors, the management have, decided to offer the lwl: Malk -ind gallery tickets for sale at. Abel's from today. The. box nlan is to open at the Dresden on Monday morning at ft o'clock, and .coupons will b? distributed one hour and a half previously.