ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2444, 24 April 1915, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

"THE BABES IN THE WOOD." To those who_ find pleasure in the modern pantomime, with its whirl of smart songs, pretty ballets, and broad knockabout humour, "The Babes in the Wood" should suffice. There is a plethora of well-known songs with a lilt in which the aaidience is, as often as not, requested to join, and the "grand escalade" and electric flags of the Allies effects are dazzling features in the department of stage mechanics. The all-pervading character, that of Maid Marion, is played by that volatile artist Miss Daisy Jerome, who monopolises more of tho evening than any principal girl since the time of the' Pharaolis, and sings all tho songs she has helped to popularise hero. Then there is Dan Thomas, Miss Ruby Davies, Josephine Gassman and her piccaninnies, and the Now York Comedy Four to add variety to the performance.

"The Babes" will appear at a special' matinee performance this afternoon and again to-niglit. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. This afternoon the weekly matinee will be presented at His "Majesty's Theatre, and in the evening the current bill will be staged for the last time. The programme is a varied one, in which Mandeno's clever performing dogs are given a prominent place. Also on the programme are Vaude and Verne, patter comedians, Sterling and Love, Phil I'ereiva], Flo Esdaile, Carlton Mas, George Hall, and Saltley the Dude, THE KING'S THEATRE. "The Colonel of tlie Red Hussars," the chief picture at the King's Theatre, has been very well patronised all through the week, and this afternoon and this evening it will again be produced. The remainder comprises a wide -variety of interesting pictures. On Monday the powerful French play, "His Son's Accuser," will be presented. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. Syd.' Chaplin, the noted comedian who figures in the Keystone plays, is earning a great reputation among Wellington patrons of picture theatre?. He is "appearing" to-day at Everybody's Theatre in "Hushing the Scandal." It is a most amusing production, and js well supported - by "Baby's Ride," "Fine Feathers," and "The Gaumont Graphic."

PEOPLE'S PICTURE PALACE. The chief attraction in the entertaining bill now being presented at the People's Picture" Palace is "Martin Chuzzlowit," an adaptation of Dickens's famous novel. The other pictures are well selected, and include scenic and dramatic studies. THE EMPRESS THEATRE. There were crowded sessions throughout yesterdy at the Empress Theatre continuous pictures, the leading attraction being the Keystone Company's tworeel "feature" comedy, "His Prehistoric Past," with Charles Chaplin as the chief comedian. _ The subject .'is most ludicrous, mainly through the comicalities of Chaplin. The fifth series of "The Adventures of Kathlyn" (Selig'e wild animal drama), "The Australian Gazette," end "I'lie Daddy of Them All" (Lubin comedy) constitute the supporting items, The series' will bo screened again to-day and to-night.

MR. BAXTER BUCKLEY'S RECITAL.

Great interest is being taken in the pianoforte recital which Mr. Buokjey has arranged to give in the Town Hull (Concert Chamber) on Tuesday. Mr. Buckley's powers as an interpreter of the works of the great masters are well known. _ There are'lio fewer than seventeen pianoforte items on the programme, representing the classical, romantic, and: bravura styles.' Mr. T. D. Collins is to assist, and Miss Esther Fisher will act as accompanists. The box plau is on view at the Bristol. "WHO'S THE LADY?" "Let there be peace on earth and more comedies like ''Who's the Lady?' " said the Sydney . "Bulletin." The fun of "Who's the Lady?" is said to be as irresistible as tho oharms of Gobetto. Tricointe, as the play runs, her first victim is the conscientious president of a county court, where there is an average of one case a year, which is "made the most of" ; out of his very punctiliousness in directing tho local hotel to expel Gobette, a noted actress, he hecomes the victim of her wiles, for Gobette, insisting on shelter of some sort, plants herself down for the night in the president's own house. Disturbed, flustered, and perburted, liis wife away in Paris, the worthy gentleman is still seeking some way out-of what has become a most compromising situation, when there arrives on a tour of inspection with a determined mind on keeping the judiciary likes "Caesar wife," 110 less a personage than the Minister of Justice. Before he hardly knows what lie is doing Tricointe. is forced into introducing; Gobette as his wife, to whom up the Minister at once falls a very willing victim; from ths point the fun becomes fast and furious, affording, as the "Herald" (Melbourne) said, "an excuse for mirth in this world of gloom." "Who's the Lady?" will be presented at the Grand Opera House on Wednesday next by Beaumont Smith and Leslio Hoskins' popular "Glad Eye" Company, including Ethel Dane, Tom Shelford, Henry S. Ford, Frank Bradley, Edward Laudor, Suna St. Clair, Alice Hamilton, Elevyn Harvey, Clarice Hardwicke, and other familiar favourites. The box plan opens on Monday at the Bristol Piauo Company. 'BEETHOVEN TRIO AND TSCHAIKOWSKY TRIO. . A notable and all classical programme will be presented to-night at the Concert Chamber by the wizards of the piano, violin, and 'cello, Leo, Jan, and Mischel Cherniavsky, the young Russian artists, who have stirred Wellington musically as it haa never been stirred before. On Monday night the final Wellington concert will be given in the largo Town Hall, when a popular programme will be presented. ORGAN RECITAL. A recital'will be given this evening at the Town Hall by Mr. Bernard F. Page (city organist). The programme will include works by Wagner, Rachmainoff, Handel, MacDowell, Eaulkes, also two choral improvisations by Lang-Elert. Although Mr. Pago has played many works by Lang-Elert, only once has he given us two choral improvisations by this composer. This evening's recital will, therefore, bo of great interest to those who admire tho works of tbie modern writer. DANCE RECITAL. On Saturday, May 1, Miss Estelle Beero will present a grand dance recital. Miss Beerc, as one of Now Zealand's leading dancing teachers, needs 110 introduction, her recitals, which are of a refined and artistic nature, invariably evoking tho greatest of interest. One of the outstanding features of the forthcoming entertainment will be tho dancing of several senior students, who ore all now to the Wellington public. Tho box plan will open on Tuesday next, and as a heavy booking is anticipated intending patrons aro advised to book eai;ly so a« to avoid disappointment.