ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2501, 30 June 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. A great favourite with tho patrons of His Majesty's Theatre has made a welcome rcappcaranco in Wellington this week. Miss Dorothy Harris is her name, and she has tho reputation of being "a queen of ragtime." Once this talented artist comes on tho stage it is most difficult for her to got off again. Song after song is cncored, and nightly tho audicnce demand her old favourite "Down tho Mississippi," and invariably they get it. There are several other clever artists appearing, and their various turns have met with approval. They include: "The Tossing Test-ros," "Little Verlio," "Three Ruddles," and a number of other wellknown performers. KING'S THEATRE. "Lil o' London," a. particularly fine drama, adapted from tho book of Bannister Mervin, is the chief attraction at the King's Theatre this week. Miss lidaa Flugrath is in tho title role, and her clever acting does much to make the drama a pictorial success. Comedy is well represented aiso. The Keystone Company's contribution is "Hogan's Aristocratic Dream." In this farce. Charles Murray, the company's new comedian, 6corcs a big success. Other pictures appearing on the bill are: "William Henry Jones's Courtship," "The Phantom Thief," "Topical Gazette," and "Picturesque California." MACMAHON'S THEATRE. People who read stories in magazines in serial form are among the chosen in literary oircles, from tho point cf view of discrimination. But those who read them in picture form bid fair to outclass their literary contemporaries.' Another triumphant serial for picture folk is announced to be started at JlacMahon's Theatre to-day, when the lirst episode in "The Master Key" is to be shown. This serial in picture form is a follower of "Lucille Love" and "The Trey of Hearts," not in character, but in production, and it is said to bo quite the best of the Gold Seal pictures yet shown. It has the advantage of having each chapter complete in itself as a story, though the final development is a natural conclusion to a series of sensational- picturisations that, wrapped in mystery, work up to a stirring and picturesque ending. "The Master Key," according to the New York "Herald," is "a picture-play that will make history, that will outshine all previous efforts in pictorial serialism, that will never lose its grip from the first part to the last, and will compel those who read the first chapter with their eyes to read the remainder of the story witli both brain and eyes." There will be a strong supporting programme with this exceptional attraction,, comprising dramatic and comic picture features. On Monday next another exceptional attraction is announced in the reappearance of Charlie Chaplin, to snow in picture form his adventures "In the Park." EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. Chief among tho new attractions at Everybody's Continuous Picture Theatro in Manners Street is a film depicting "Our Troops in Egypt." To say the least, the picturo is of historical value on account'of it being, a truthful record of the training which the New Zealanders and Australians received in Egypt. Every detail is shown, even down to their long marches across tho sandy desert, with the Pyramids in tho background. A particular featuro of the film is the big march past, with General Birdwood and General Godley at tho saluting base. The other pictures screened go to make up one of tho best programmes seen at Everybody's Theatre for some time. THE EMPRESS THEATRE. Long queues of waiting patrons at the Empress Theatre were noticeable throughout yesterday aftornoon and evening. Such largo attendauces may be regarded as a tangible tribute to the merit of tho programme. The screening of the big Keystone farce "Gussle's Day of Rest," with. Syd. Chaplin as tho "star." caused roars of laughter. That reallv fine Lubin drama "A War Baby" is a popular favourite.- "Life Right at the Front," aud tho latest "Topical Gazette" aro full of interesting sections. This programmo will be withdrawn after to-night. To-morrow's all-new programme includes a very powerful Reliance mystic film play, "Tho Green Idol;" "Wilful Ambrose," an uproarious Keystone; "In the Fronch'Lines at Rheims;" "Tho Good in Him" (Lubin drama); aud tho "Australian Gazette." NEW FOLLIES' COMPANY. Mr. George Porfcus, tho well-known theatrical manager, arrived from Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday, en route to Auckland to make arrangements for a tour of New Zealand of Rickards's Tivoli Follies' Company. The company, which is due here on July 19, includes Mr. Jack Cannot, Isabella D'Armond, Vera Pearce, Alfredo (violinist), and Robert Parker, the grand opera baritone (who was in Australia with the Quiiilan Opora Company some three years ago). The company has been very popular on the Rickards' circuit in Australia, and tho bright performances it offers should suit popular taste in New Zealand. THE OHERNIAVSKYS. Before their departure for Canada and U.S.A., the Cherniavskys will give farewell concerts in this City on July 7, 8, and 10. Each of the three artists in this combination is still youthful in years, and possessed of a striking technical facility in the management of the j instrument of 'his adoption. Music is not only tho work of the Chemiavsky trio—it is their life and joy—and when i they play together, there is a unity that can only bo produced by the closest asj sociation and continual rehearsal.