ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2571, 20 September 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

- "HINEMOA." _ Saturday evening's performance of ■ €r °y, Flynn's Maori musical play "Hinemoa, bj; the "Maori Opera Company ivas muclr enjoyed by -the audience present at the Grand Opora House. The tuneful me todies, the fascinating' hakas and pois, and the beautiful scenery associated with toe romantic' legend assitsed to make for the general success of the performance, numbers include: "Little Maori fa><vG<>od-bye," "0, Shy Little' Maid of fr m i'r s A ,"Sljsh." and "Welcome til© Moon, eto., all of .which are done full IWWlff.inembMs of the. company. Tanta Butt takes the title rolef Mr. Jiawh! Rogers/ Tutanekai,' and Mr. T Mahima the . part of Tiki, Tutanekai's inend, v HiEomoa' "will be produced every evening until: Wednesday, and a matinee will-to. given on Wednesday afternoon. The proieeds will go, towards MM «. { he debt of the Anglican Church at uliinemutu. . • .•

" HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. • Programme, to be presented , .*t His Majesty s Theatre to-ngiht a jumper of newly-arrived vaudeville artists will appear for the first time. Chief • ajnonr these will'bo May Erno and He, two lvnglish performers, who are making their initial bow to a New -Zealand audi-, ence. They give a vocal and instrumental melange, which has "been spoken of by the English Press as being "unique as it is clever, and as dainty and artistic as is mirth-provoking." Their engagement is for six nights only.'-'An-other important debut will be that of ; the Jeunets, who are billed as novel „ American gymnasts'and-acrobats. They, are • said 'to- perform some .. remarkable' '"'eight-lifting.-,- An : illuminated skippmg-Tope plays an important nart in one of;the scenes in the act. The reappearanceof the Rhodesburys, patter comedians, is announced, and doubtless •. they-will .be warmly welcomed upon their . ; re-entry. An.eritiro change 'of programme V\*ill he submitted by Miss Hazel ilorris, Miss Violet Treveiiyon, Edwards and Parkes, the Rosie Rifle Co., the Casselli Sisters, and Orphea. The last six nights »ro announced of the Great Lutes, the .irmless wonder.

V ; THE KING'S.' ■' Thewell-known' melodrama, "Alone -in London, v forms the star attraction for this evening. The picture is said to to exceptionally well produced, and the leading role is. sustained by Miss Florence Turner, one of the finest artists of' the .screen. - The story of thrill-treated and neglected wife and her trials in the wickedness. of the world's metropolis, is familiar to niost people, arid the picturelsed .version presents the plot in a 'convincing and realistic manner, without overdoing the- extremely' : melodramatic situations. Those popular' favourites, . Antta Stewart and Earle Williams, make a welcome reappearance in a bright comedy, written by Ralph Ince, and entitled ■The Right. Girl." A. very pleasing, 'drama-is oalled The Problem," which ehows how a mother saw in a dream the effects of .'her daughter's loveless ; marriage to a, rich man, and was thereby moved to change her opinion, and permit the young lady to marry her choice. A -very interesting- scenic ,'study is "A Trip to' Luxor,"' a village on the jSile; where there are many famous antiguities ,'from the city,- of ancient lhebe*. .. Pathe's Gazette presents' pictorially many interesting war happenings.. -. -

•"THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY." The great novelty in the picture world at the present; time is the long serial which takes weeks to reel to its eud. The Thanhouser Company have produced a serial written by Harold M'lirath, and' : produced by Lloyd Lonergan, which is said to 1)6 easily the most • absorbing serial drama placed on the screen. "'Tho Million Dollar Mystery," a- story :of adventurous , happenings, comprises 23 episodes, and each' and every one is brimful of romance and excitement, and the interest. Attached ' to the; opening instalment, is continued until "The Million Dollar - Mystery" is revealed in-.the final number, l'ne ( opening, episode tos boiscireened vat "Everybody's" to-day at noon is entitled "The Airship in the Night," and in this grand story patrons ara introduced to all 'the' artists in the special characters they assume through all tho twenty-three numbers. Immense interest lias been' created in Australia in the screening of "The Million Dollar Mystery,", and it is anticipated that that success will be repeated,'in,the Dominion. ■.