ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1247, 2 October 1911, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS.

—. —« OPERA HOUSE. On Saturday, Clarko and Meynell's Now Comic Opera Company gave a farewell performance of ".Sergeant Bruo" before another largo audience. Tho play is full of humorous incidents, and the different actors handled thoir parts well, Mr. Percy Clifton, as Sergeant Brue, and Mr Tom Graves, as Crookie Scrubbs, being exceptionally good. THEATRE ROYAL. Saturday night's performance at tho Theatre Royal was witnessed by a largo Audience. Tho turns of Mourner and Franz, Vernon and Muck, Dclavnlo and Gilbert, and tlio various other performers, wero fully appreciated. To-night thero will be a complete change of programme, when a bright and diversified entertainment is promised. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Tho popularity of last week's programme at His. Majesty's Theatre was demonstrated by packed houses nightly, and Saturday proved no exception, both inaitince and ■ evening performances being largely attended to witness tho filial screening of tlio series.. To-night a complete change will bo made, and'the feature of tho new programme will be a:i adaptation'of Fergus Hume's well-known novel "Tho Mystery of a Hansom Cab." Tho pictnre' is by Johnson and Gibson, of Melbourne, and is entirely an Australian production, and enacted by Australian actors, 011 tlio spots whoro tlio'-strange story is • supposed ..to havo taken place . Messrs. Fuller and Sons have secured tho services of Mr. Alfred Boothman, the Australian. elocutionist, who will lecture on tho picture as it is thrown upon tho screen. .In addition to the abovo film, which takes up tho whole of tho first part of tho entertainment, a complete now series of the latest English, American, and Continental productions, arriving with tho English mail this afternoon, will be introduced. Tho hmnagement announce, owing to tho ' lcivrth of tho programme, the overture will commence at 7.15, in order to concltnlo the entertainment at the usual time. Seats may be booked at Christeson's. - THE KING'S THEATRE. West's latest exclusive play, "Ten' Nights in a Bar-room," presented with' Adequate attention, to detail by tl;e Ssjig Company's artists, will bo a leading feature in to-night's programme at the King's Theatre.' Other star items will bo; '.'Tlio Tribe's Penalty," an excellent Western drama; "Tho Festival of Candles,": portraying one of .the little-known customs which periodically take place in Bunny Italy; "Pineapples.'' a well-defined summary- of the cultivation of this familiar: fruit; "Fcolsliead's Heels," another amusing picture by the little comedian; 'Tatho Gazette," with tho latet topical news, and other interesting and instructive subjects. Special music will also bo rendered by tho King's Theatre orchestra. THE NEW THEATRE. The continuous picture entertainment attracted full houses at. tho New Thcatro throughout Saturday. The current series will bo shown for tho last tirao to-day and to-night. The customary chango is announced for to-morrow, when a budget of tho .choicest American and European photo-plays and scenic studies will be introduced. ST. THOMAS'S HALL, NEWTOWN. West Pictures Proprietary are nightly providing a picture entertainment, at St. Thomas's. Hall, Newtown. Thoro will bo : a now pro'grammo to-night.. RENE QUEREE CONCERT. At tho Opera House to-night, Miss Reno Quertfe,'the'talented young Now Zealand, pianiste,' who shortly leaves for-Borlin, will bid farewell to Wellington audiences for soiile'years .'to..come. . The' concert promises to be a very, enjoyable one, as the programme includes . many of the leading- artists df this city, and Mr. Hamilton Hodges, tho favourite baritone. ■ ORGAN RECITAL. A thoroughly enjoyable programme waspresented(to patrons of tho weekly municipal "brgah the.;Totfrt''Hal'l 'onSaturday whcii -'MK' :i 'Mau'ghtm Bajnett (municipal . organist) ..delighted his wth excerpts .'from-.tho great masters';off., ,thQ. r ai£ 0f...t1i0,' organ. ..The items,.included.'an impressive Fugue in G Minor;"'.' Wagner's' fiery "Rido of the Valkyries,", and a charming • duetto from Mendelisohifi's "Lieder Ohue Worte." Schubert's delicate "L'a/lieu," tho wellknown study, :.'"Le Cygne" (Saint-Saens), a beautiful.. little idyll, and a paeeful gavotto from Gluck, were in. lighter contrast to those already mentioned. . Another interesting number was a fine reading of Boellmann's "Suite Gothique." . PROFESSIONAL ORCHESTRA.A.• V"'-largo audience , assembled at tho-Town'-Hall last evening. to hear, the Sunday concert by the -W oiling ton Professional Orchestra. The . programme was a very good one indeed. Tho orchestral items..': included .the . Schubert-Tausig ,r Marche. Militaire," excerpts from Wagner's celebrated opera of "Taninhanser," Mendelssohn's ~ irresistible "Spring Song," a new-and strlkiugly characteristic march .piece called "The Yeomanry Patrol," and the lively "Saltarollo," Gauncd. The orchestra was assisted by. Mrs. Carlylo Free,"who has been engaged as one of tho, principal soloists in the performance of Ruth- (to be' sung by the AVellington ChoTal Scekity shortly), and she created a vory favourable impression indeed. Her selection wasCowen'ssong "The Promise .of Life," to Which she added, as an encore number, a song from Gounod's ',Taust." VIOLIN RECITAL. Tho violin recital given by Mr. Charles' Sehilsky. (assisted by Miss lna .Gow, pianist, and Mr., Chas. 11. Stephens, vocalist) at St. Andrew's Hall on 'Saturday even- ■ iag was of an unusually high standard of artistic excellence. Mr. Schilsky, a musician of considerable parts, included such ttoins as Brahms's Sonata in A Major (for piano and violin),-a violin concerto in'G m.ini:<r (Ma_x Bruch), Sain-t-Saens's "Introduction and .Rondo Capriccioso" in his repertoire. His other'items wero an attractive "Priealied" from Wagner, a CliopinWillielmj "Nocture in D," Zarzycki's "Mazurka," and a characteristic "Tango" (Spanish dance), by F. Arbos. Mr, Stephens, well known in Wellington as a cultured tenor singer, contributed to the programme six, delightful songs—"Wio bist du Meino Konigcn" (Johannes Brahms), "All Sonl's Day," and "Devoted" (both by .R. Strauss), "Gretchen Viemt du. Rendezvous" (J. Sibelius), "Adion" (G. Faure); and "Amiens" (Goring Thomas).