ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2293, 29 October 1914, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

"BUNTY PULLS THE STRINGS." "It's a farseeiii' lassie that chooses her ain steppio," says Eolen Dunlop about Bunty in the ingenious Scotch comody now drawing large audiences to the Grand Opera House. The imputation is based on Bunty because the latter has, in vulgar parlance, "pulled Eelen's leg" as to what sort of a housekeeper slie is, and does so with the full consent of her father, who admits to his daughter that ho has ■secondary matrimonial intentions regarding Eolen. Whore else but in lowland Scotland would a father agree to allow his daughter to test his intended bride in domestic economy? It is just that big leaven of prudence and thrift characteristic of the race, which overcomes that wee touch of sentiment they hoth have for one another. • "Bunty Pulls tho Strings" was played both yesterday afternoon and evening, and was enjoyed to the full by large audiences on both occasions. Only two more performances can be given in Wellington. _ HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. If anyone is feeling a little tired of the world and its ways they should pop into His Majesty's, and see Williams _ and Warner, the two French musicians and comedians. They are something novel, direct from the boulevards, with a style reminiscent of fete days in Paris. In their hats, ludicrous make-ups, and quite incomprehensible, patter, they make music in a. dozen attractive ways. Other performers who are capable of dealing with gloom in its worst phases are Leslie Holmes, tho Californian hunk, Les Bates,_ and Brown, and Sorlie, negro comedians. KING'S THEATRE. In these parts we know little of the works of that gifted American playwright Bronson Howard, some of plays have made vast fortunes for their. American producers, though they do not transplant well. An, idea of his style is given in the picture "One of Our. Girls', , at the King's Theatre, a picture which incidentally features that charming actress Hazel Dawn, whom we would all like to see and hear in the flesh. At this theatre is also to bo eeen Brussels in possession of the Germans, and Termondo in ruins.

EVERYBODY'S PICTURES. At Everybody's Pictures shrieks of laughter from crowded houses are greeting ['The Knock-out," in which tho amazingly funny comedy acrobat, Charles Chaplin, figures as the referee. There are also famous historical pictures of tho ocrapation of Brussels by the Germans, and the ruined city of Termonde. "Tho Battle of the AVeak" is a Vitagraph drama with a novel and well-sustained interest. THE NEW THEATRE. "Shot-gun Jones," a rousing Selip; drama-photo, is attracting large audiences to the comfortable and conveniently situated New Theatre in Manners Street. Here also may' be viewed in safety tho entry of the Gorman Army into Brussels, and visitors may gain a capital idea of the appalling damage done by bursting shells and fire at Termonde. / THE EMPRESS THEATRE. At the Empress Theatre Continuous Pictures to-day and to-night.will be introduced a thrilling "feature" photodrama, "The Dare-devil Rescue." It is reported that during the action of tho olay, Rodman Law, the American aviator, jumps from an aeroplane which is travelling at the rate of seventy miles an hour. There is also . among ctber sensational incidents an explosion on a motor-boat, which throws the occupants into the- water. The principals are the private. secretary to a multi-millionaire, who is in lovo with his employer's daughter, the wife of the millionaire, who is a social climber, ambitious io have her daughter marry a nobleman, and a Russian nobleman, who is shadowed by an agent of the Russian secret police. , The play is stated to abound in incidents of an unusual nature. The supplementary series will include . dramatic, comic, and scenic items.