ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2527, 30 July 1915, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

THE KING'S. Tho .excellent acting- of Albert Chevalier' in "The Middleman.'" continues to attract the audiences to this 'popular house. The London Film Co. have produced many lino .photo-plays, but none better than this version of Sir Henry Arthur Jones's play. There are some very good supporting features, including the Vitagraph Company's humorous playlet, "Forcing leather's Consent." "Pabhe's Gazette" is well up to tho usual standard, and contains some excellent views of our Allies the Russians. A scene that brings home very forcibly the horrors of war is that where the "Tommies" are seen assisting wounded German prisoners to the ambulances. "Snow in Norway" is a beautiful scenic study. The usual matinee takes place to-morrow.

ELINOR GLTN'S "THREE WEEKS." For Monday evening -next there eoines to the King's Theatre a big film star feature, 6000 teet long, that lias just finished a season of 82 consecutive .screenings at Auckland, which constitutes a record run for the Dominion. The previous record held by "Quo Yadis?" &>vered 23 exhibitions in Cliristcliwch. Tho film is a _ reproduction in animated photography of Elinor Glyn's electric love story, "Three Weeks," which rather startled England when it first saw the light. The work was prohibited for a while by order of an English Court, but this decision was reversed on appeal, after lengthy litigation. Tho picturo version bus scored a tremendous success both in England, America, Australia, and Auckland. It has held the screen, for. several weeks at Sydney, and is still playing to immense attendances. The picture version, of course, has been passed by. tho censor as free from any suggestion of offensiveness. Special music will embellish the unfolding and there will bo a strong supporting programme, Box plans are open at tho Bristol.

. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. That very popular company of enterfitiners, "The Butterflies," are at present providing a most enjoyable first half to the programme at His Majesty's Theatre. AVitli Mr. Jack AVallor iu the vanguard of the talented company of entertainers the time "The Butterflies" occupy the stage passes all too quickly. Other art-' ists oil the current programme include Miss Gracio Graham, vocal comedienne, and "The Great Baffling Baker C 0.," American illusionists.

EVERYBODY'S PICTURES. The latest success at Everybody's Pictures, Maimers Street, is a gripping.Lubin drama, entitled "A Siren of Corsica." The .story contres round Monte Carlo, and apart from a, highly sensational story presents a vivid picture of the gambling tables ajid the fashionable motley throng that flits round them. Interesting topical subjects and amusing comedies help to make up. an entertaining programme, A HERO OP THE DARDANELLES. On Monday, after the arrival of the Auckland express, a film of intense patriotic spirit which it is said'will'thrill patrons with its martial surroundings will be screened at Everybody's. "A Hero of the Dardanelles" is a sequel to that re-cord-breaking patriotic drama,, "Will They Never come?" and it describes t'no bravery, dash, and daring of our brave lads at the landing on Gallipoli Peninsula. That day history was made for Australasia and the deeds of our boys in khaki will go down to posterity as a record of heroism. The' don't-care lad of "Will They Never Come?" is depicted in "A Hero of the Dardanelles," and the whole subject is described as a masterful interpretation of Ashmead Bartlett's famous Dardanelles dispatches.

THE EMPRESS. . Crowded attendances thronged the popular Empress Theatre yesterday when a really excellent new programme was unreeled. Charles Chaplin, in "The Mssqueradcrs" was also shown by request, but the favourite comedian finishes- tonight. The big feature of the new list is a Reliance star drama, "The Slave Girl," - and an admirable production it is.' The play is most interesting, and the claim that it eclipses the old favourites, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "The Octoroon," is not with6ut some foundation. Another very effective emotional play is Vitagraph's drama, "Ix>ve Will Out." ' Uproarious laughter attends the screening of Keystone's comedy "Ambrose's Tury." The same may be said of "The Haunted Attic," while the latest Australian Gazette is full of interesting sections. The evening orchestra can bo heartily commended.

MACMAHON'S THEATRE. _ The big four-act drama, "Victory or Death," has scored a pronounced success at MacMahon's Theatre. Tli9 picture, which is an entirely new Italia film, is full of sensation, and the effects are marvellously realistic, especially that of the burning liner in mid-ocean. The story is ~a coherent and absorbing one, and its leaven of romanco hinges round the eternal triangle of two men and/a maid. Charlie Chaplin continues to "entertain with his high jinks to the "Jitney Elopement," whilst a delightful <somedy iu quieter vein is "The Curing of Myra May." The Gaiimont Graphic .is rich with, topical subjects, and scenic and other attractive picture subjects are included in a capital programme.