ENTERTAINMENTS,

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2112, 1 April 1914, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS,

BIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Mirth and music are holding high ' revelry t in these times at His Majesty's Theatre, where the quality of the-'por-formances is still improving. Mr. Brent Hayes, the virtuoso of the banjo.*.■ ono of the reigning stars, is worth the price of. admission. Hβ is a wholo orchestra in himself, and disclose!? new and entirely unsuspected resoufcoij in-tho banjo (or banjoist). To dos.ft the eyes, when Hayes is playing is to imagine that at least there are thi'ec instruments employed to get the effects. Captain Brunswick's- brcejsy littlo Wild West sketch is excellently dono by a trio of slick Americans,, ami is rueeivedi with roars of laughter. Millie DorisNis decidedly comical iit her solids, and Miss Dorothy Harris singe rag-time ditties delightfully. Cunningham and Rose, Kingsley and.Grakiiri., Foster, Lamont, and Foster, Sherrottand Lang, and the Phillip Sisters all contribute acceptably to a fine • programme. ■ ;

'<■ UPPER. HUTT BENEFIT.

AH the members of tho Brennaii'lful* lei- Company will appear at tho 'big benefit performance to be accorded- tO : .tho sufferers "by tho J Upper Hutt'-tlisas' ter in His/Majesty's Theatre oil Siit.Wday afternoon next. Tho entertainment should draw a crowded house.

, KING'S THEATRE.

'.The subtle title of tliovcliiof dramatic picture at the King's Theatre this week is ''A Prisoner in the. Harem," iVhith depicts' tlio trials of a.'beautiful Indian r.irl, who is confined in tho harem M tho Sultan, and who, after many vjeissitudes, is rescued by her faithful iqs;or. A really excellent series, conspicuous' far good photography/'was shown roprodacing the scene of the fire at' the tipper Hutt, and of the public funeral processions. These proved most interesting, and tho screening was embellished by the singing of the sacred solo "Ob Best in" the Lord" by a lady vocalist. Tlifa picture will be kept in tho programme for the balance of the ■week. Otlicr good pictures are: "A Day in a Sailor's Life," "Two Aristocratic Penitents," "Pathe's Gazette," "Gagry" (scente), : and "Hubby's Polly." ( EMPRESS THEATRE. "Stanton's Last Fling," a fine Edi* son picture-play, heads the list at. the popular Empress Theatre, in. Willii Street. The programme also includes such admirable pictures as: : "A Trip ■ Through Lower Brittany," '"Doubie Crossed," "The Lesson," "Comproniisiiiß Complications," and "Tiny Tim's First Cigar." . - Tiie change of programme-'to-mbrrow • will include a lengthy film depicting tho football test match played at San Francisco between New Zealand and America. Tho subject, which is entitled "All Blacks v. America," clearly sWvs every important phase of the game, ami tho players are said to .be easily identified. ORGAN KECITAL. . Mr. C. W. Kerry, organist of St. John's Church, gavo an enjoyable recital in the church last evening. A very comprehensive programme included Mendelssohn's No. 'I Sonata (C Mttiu' , and Major), Elgar's orchestral suite, "Tho Wand of Youth," written when he was only twelve years of age; Hamisjt' M'Cunn's "By the Burnside." Baeh'i "Fantasia and Fuglie," a "Pastel" t.y Karg-Elert, Wolstenhdlme's "Allegretto," Dudley Buck's tone picture il On tho Coast," ■ and Guilmaht's "Prayer ajid Cradle Song." Mr. Kerry was assisted by St. John's Choir, who sang the organist's own anthem, "Hark, Hark, My Soul," in Which tho solo* were sunc by Mrs. C. W. Kerry atoA Mr. E. AValdie, and Miss. Eva Smith, who possesses a contralto voice of cm* niderablc promise,, sang Liddlo's "Itoaij, Kindly Light," which < song hardly realises the beauty of the lyrics.