ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1295, 25 November 1911, Page 14

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HUDDKKSFIELD BELLIiINGEKS , BAND. The following is an extract from , (he "Hlackpoole Herald" on a performance of tho Huddersfiehl , Bellringers Band, who open their Wellington season in (he. Opera House to-night:—"There are' 12 members in the company, and they play classic music in. the most refined manner. Their facility of execution was asloni.-li-ing, and whether they were playing a sublime work or a rollicking presii.-simo passage with rapid octaves, every note rang out clear and tunefully, wjllioiil Ilio slightest suggestion of coul'using. Their selections included "Martha" (Floton). "Norma" (Bellini), and a variation on "Auld Lang Sync." This combination won the. Bella Vue contest in. 11)01, li! 02, and l!Xin. They wero then debarred from coinpe.tiug again in 1901, but wero readmitted the following year, when they again carried off premier honours for three more consecutivo years." The box plan is, at tho Dresden, ami early day sales at Christeson's. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATKE. To-nighf s performance at His Majesty's Theatre, Courto.iay Place, will hu tho Inst show of any kind to be given prior to the demolition of tho building, which commoners oil Monday morning. The. programme, is one of special and particular merit, including, as it does, the spectacular "Battle of'Trafalgar,"'"War Scenes at Tripoli," "Itory O'More," and the Clifton Terrace fire (iocaH. Hereafter Fuller.s' Pictures will be shown at the Skating Kiiik. A special interest will attach to tho opening programme at the Rink. During the past week some CO or 70 of the bonniest babies in Wellington havo been kinomatographed - "n connection with tho Babv Competition, which commences on Monday evening. These will be shown three at a time, each having a number as the sole means'of identification. The duty of the audience will be to vote for the, best baby, and at' the, end of-the week the votes will be , totalled and tho prizes awarded.. . . - ' . . KING'S THEATRE. With such -.picturesque and impressive pictures as "Angry. Nature"'(Etna in' eruption),' "Rob Roy" ' (dramatic) and "War Scenes in Tripoli" (topical), in the ono programme, the entertainment provided at the King's Theatre, at present reaches a high level of excellence. On Monday another of West's exclusive pictures, entitled. "Lady Mary's Love," will bo shown. The usiial prize matinee will take place this afternoon. .THE NEW THEATRE. Fresh fare'.for those ■ desirous of new pictures" was provided at tho New 'Theatre yesterday. Tho new .programme is particularly strong in dramatic pictures, prominent "among which is "Tho End of tho Trial," the story of one man's treachery and.. another's loyalty. • Through trickerv of a despicable character an evilly-disposed young man wins the hand, if hot tho heart, of a beautiful girl. They marry and, true to his instincts, the husband turns out a "wrong 'un," and, after, sinking, low in the social scale, deserts his :wifo and child, and joins his old-time rival in the West, telling him-that.his wjfe has died. Later comes troublo with the Indians and, whilst fending off an. attack, the bad boy is shot. In dying he confesses that he ha.s deserted his wife,' and tells the other where she and ,the child are lo bo found. Losing no time in vain, regrets, the hero boards an east-bound train, discovers the woman just about to be . evicted from her -poverty-stricken home, and effects a rescue, in true American style.. Thereafter—happiness,. ""A.Mexican Love 'Affair'.'-., is . another.:.highly sensational' dramatic picture, .in lyhirh' one fiillblooded' Mexican belle, jealous of another handsome brunette, pushes lior into tho sea, and then, in a fit of remorse, has her rescued after she has swum miles out to sea and back again. Even after so long a submersion the. offender is forgiven and kissed, where one might have reasonably expected n quick thrust with a stilletto. Other pictures of merit are"Nancy," "Two Valentines," "How Chairs Made." "Not to be Hoodwinked.'- and a Mai Linder pietnrc "Pa Pays Again."

THE lUCivATms.VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. After a long interval Wellington will again be visited by another Vaudeville Company of the Harry Eickards management, opening at the Opera House on Saturday evening next, December 2, for a season of two' weeks. Our Australian and northern contemporaries have spoken most highly of the artists sent over by the well-known .Australian management, each of whom is distinguished in his or her lino of business. In Binns and Binns the company possesses two American comedians and 'musicians who bring quito a novel turn, in which the fun at times* becomes hilarious. Mdlle. Alcide Capitaine is stated to be a singularly grace ful aerial trapeze gymnast. Mr. Alf Holt is a rendy-tongued American, with a shower of clever patter, who imitates most of the members of tho animal kingdom fn anabsurdlr lifc-liko manner. Messrs. Clarke and Mostbl have the reputation of being two exceptionally brilliant dancers. Mr. Clarke's impersonation of an English Piccadilly Johnnie, with faultless clothes and eye-glass complete, being exceptionally fine. In Mr. Sydney Bach the combina-tion possesses a fine Welsh monologue entertainer, and Mr. Carltoa Max is stated to be one of the best ventriloquists we have ever seen. Pastor and Merle, two American eccentrics, appear in a clever acrobatic and dancing act, and Mr. Godfrey James, the Welsh singing collier, who possesses a beautiful tenor voice, will sing a number of popular sings. The.ro are a number of other clever artists. The box plan for tho first six nights will open on Wedifesdoy morning at the Dresden.

TO-NIGHT'S ORGAN RECITAL. Tho last organ' recital of tho present year will be given this evening in the Town Hall by the City Organist (Mr. Mnughnn Barnott). The organ items consist of Schubert's Serenade, Toccata from "Suite Gothit|iie" (Bocllmunn). Mcndelssohn's Spinning Song, . Widor's Finale 2nd-Symphony, The Eido of tho -Valkyries (Wagner). Mr. J. Calvert, a rer cent arrival from the North of England, the possessor of a delightful tenor voice, has been engaged to sing "Onowayawake, Beloved" (Coleridge-Taylor), "The Rosarv" (S. Nevin), and "In Moonlight" (Elger). The prices are the same as usual. . THE JIESSTAH. Interest musically.centres on the Royal Choral Societies' performance of Handel's masterpiece "The Mesiah," which is to bo given in the Town Hall on Friday evening, next, under tho couductorship of Mr. Uorace Hunt, with Mr. Maughau Barnett at the. grand orgau. The society have gone to considerable expense in getting the very best sololists available. Mr. Philip Nowbury has .been specially engaged to sing the tenor solos. It is now ten years since Mr. Newbury appeared before a Wellington audience. Madame Willaert, of Auckland, will sing the soprano solos, Mrs. Ernest Firth, of Christchurch, will mako her first appearance before a Wellington audience at the "Messiah," and will sing the contralto solos, whilo Mr. John Prouso willsing the bass. The box plan opens at the Dresden rooms on Moudav as 9 o'clock.

KINEMACOLOR PICTURES. Photography in natural colours is a study which for. long defied solution. To achieve the. same successfully, and reproduce it on the scroeu with objects standing out in thoir natural hues, was for long deemed an impossibility. Two clover Englishmen, Messrs. Chas. Urban and G. Albert Smith, however, after much tedious work and countless experiments, emerged successfully from the task, and at last the natural colour point of kinematography has been realised. To photograph, aud. reproduce natural colours is certainly a marvellous achievement. The seal .of Royalty, has been set upon kinematography, for special-command exhibitions havo been given at Saudringham and -Balmoral; his Majesty personally expressing his appreciation to Mr. Chas. Urban. The London "Daily Express" says':—"This kineniacolor is marvellous. We see a rainbow, and every shade melts imperceptibly into the other. We sue a sunset, on the Nilo. with weird, ghostly figures of men nml beasts, blurred by this gorgeous, radiance of the Egyptian smi. and it is indescribably beautiful." The method of kiucmacolour is fasciiiatiun. -Tlic sole New; Zealand rights of toaeiaa-

colour are held by Messrs. John Fuller unci Konp, from Amalgamated Pictures Lid., .Melbourne, and the first, exhibition will hi> given next. Wednesday night at the Theatre Koyiil. BAND PERFORMANCE. The' Tramways Hand will give a performance at Lynll Bay to-morrow aiternoon at .'! o'clock. Members of the Young Women's Christian Association sire to give two performances of (he canlata "The Hours in their room.-, Herbert. Ktrcet, to-day, at ;j p.m. and S p.m. Tin; price fnr admission to each entertainment will bo (id.