ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2113, 2 April 1914, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HIS MAJESTIC THEATRE.

The current vaudeville programme at His Majesty's Theatre, provides the j material for a capital evening's enter-] tainment. The- items are pleasantly i varied, and all are good of tlifiir Jiind, The 3' comprise a breezy Wild West sketch by a party o-f: cfever Amefieansi remarkably skilled banjo playing by Sir. Brent Hayes, comedy songs by Millie Doris, and rattling ragtime ditties by Miss Dorothy Harris. 'Others who con* tribute excellent items to a programme rich in all-round morit are Kings-ley a.ud Graham, Cunnigham and Hose, Fester, Laniont and Foster. Simrratt and Lang, and the Phillips Sisters. Oft Saturday tho full strength it the Brenaaii-iulta Company will appear in a- matinee, -the gross proceeds of wli.jeh ate to bo paid into the fund for tho benefit of sufferers by the Upper Hutt disaster. <

. THE KING'S THEATBE. Tlie central attraction in the picture programme which - is being screened, at the King's Theatre this week is entitled "A Prisoner of the fiarenl," It is a., dramatic representation, beautifully produced, of, tlie adventures of an 3u.ui.mi girl, who is detained In the harem of n tyrannous Sultan, and after ttaivy vieissitudee is rescued by a feitblu-l ioV.er, .Lhe programmo includes m excellent inotion pictui-o of the scene of the ftqeni disaster at Upper Hutt and. of the pivblic funeral processions. The picture is accompanied by the singing by a lady vocalist of the sacred solo,, "0 J* eat in' tho Lord." . Other pictures which may be mentioned in a capital selection f.re: "A Day in a Sailor's Life./' 'Mwo Aristocratic Penitents," "The Paste Gazette," "Gagry" (.scenic), «M ™- by's Polly." The same pictures wall be screened until the end 0f,%» week, and there will .bo the usual matifieo «n teatr Ur Tblre will be a matinee perfoiniance on Saturday afternooil. THE EMPRESS THEATRE.

The change of programme at the Empress Theatre Continuous Pictures today arid to-night will include a lengthy film of the great Rugby test rairte i between New Zealand and Ameriea, pwca at San Francisco. The cameras which, produced the picture were placed at various parts of the field v so that aW the most important stages of the game are shown.' Each player it is satfi <mn be readily recognised. The 'feature of the new bill will be A stirring drama of the revolutionary days in Ireland entitled "The''lnformer." The plot is based on a lovo story in -which there jro two- suitors; for the h.ajid of ' a beautiful young girl. Other items in*: "Explosive D," Kalem feeigii spj drama; "His Hoodoo," A-.8. "feature" comedy,; aud "Tangled .Threads, , a Vitagraph comedy-drains.