ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2753, 24 April 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

HIS MAJESTY'S'TREATKE. . The initial performance of the weekly change by tlie Fuller Vaudeville Company will lake place at a holiday matinee to be'given at His Majesty's Theatre to-day. Tlie new bill, which is stated to be.rich in variety and merit, .will include several new artists, and prominent among these will be ,Peromi, an Italian musical entertainer, who specialises 111 selections on tne piano-accordion and electric bells. Another interesting appearance will be thai of Carlton Max,' the popular ventriloquist. Mons. Nech'elsen, a Parisian magician, has been secured for a farewell visit, and mill''provide a galaxy of new illusions. The (programme will be further strengthened by Mr. Ted 'Stagpoole, the indiarubbei' comedian. The new artists will receive adequate support from a number of artists who have been retained from last week's bill. Milner and Storey, Sydney Bacli, liable and Malfe,. Agnes Kawes, and Sharratt and Lang, will all be seen in new contributions. The programme will be repeated nightly during tlie week, and at the usual matinee on Saturday. / "BRITAIN .PREPARED." The splendid series of war films, entitled "Britain Prepared;" which met with such , great success at the King's Theatre last week, will be screened again all this <veek, each afternoon at .2.30, and each evening at 8. Being . granted special facilities by the Admiralty and War Office, the • photographers have been enabled to secure a most comprehensive and complete set of. pictures of every phase of national life, from the choosing and training of the raw recruit to the "Tommy" at . the front, and the dauntless airman, in the latest aerial craft, as well as "Jack" afloat on board ilie latest battleship of the line, 6r diving beneath the waters in the deadly submarine. The Prime Minister, the Minister of Defence, and the Minister of Finance have publicly endorsed the remarkable educational and patriotic value of tlie pictures as well as praising them. Excellent music is rendered by a largely-augmented orchestra. ■ The plans of reserved seats for to-night and to-morrow are on view at the King's Theatre all day. "MY OLD .DUTCH." Albert Chevalier, the renowned London' character actor, ' will appear at the Empress Theatre from 10 a.m. to-day, in the celebrated picture story of the famous song, "My Old Dutch." It is a compound .of rare imagination and stern reality, a real, vivid,' human account of the career of a humble coster and that of his son, whom he hud visions of. making a gentleman. . "My Old Dutch" takes its place among the masterpieces of fiction and photo-plays, ■by reason of its humanity. There are no artificialities, no unusual characterisation, - the 6tory is told you simply, humorously, entertainingly, with' great pathetic, moments punctuating the 'comic episodes.that are part of the narrative. 'My Old has a cumulative, interest,, and the end has a fascination not found in any other play of its class. • Mr. Albert Chevalier, as the coster, it is said, makes a great- appeal. He is -assisted by Miss Florence Turner and other well-known English artists. • . "JELFS." Photo-plays which have as their founda> tion the plot of a famous novel, constitute one of the big developments in the picture world. Aicase in point is a fivereel feature drama, "Jelfs," which'is dramatised from the popular novel by H. k. V.acliell, and which will be tho leading attraction at Everybody's Theatre to-day (Easter Monday), starting at 10 a.m. The production is by the London Film Company.- ."Jelfs" is in a bright style, and is redolent of the open life of the Canadian plains. Tho hero of tlie play comes from Canada to conduct an old-established bank in London, bequeathed to him by his father. His banking methods aTe rather and. liis confreres are surprised -at his business and financial arrangements. 'A charming love romance is interwov.en into tho drama, and the ending is rather unconventional. Henry Ainley, with Gerald Ames and Charles Hock, play the principal part in . "Jelfs." A .splendid "Gaitmont Graphic"' supports the : star play. . ' ' ■

THE CROWN THEATRE. The first programme'to be screened at the Crown Thea.tre.' next Saturday night promises to be. particularly good. "Mrs. Plum's Pudding," featuriii" tho renowned queen of cbmeily, Marie Tempest, is said to l be a most-delightful and entrancing photo-play, and something quite new and different to- anything which has preceded it. "Mis. Plum's Pudding" was produced at Universal City, California, U.S.A. All the leading artistes have been engaged to act before the .camera at this wonderful city, and among those who will be seenat the /Crown Theatre shortly are: .Madame Sarah Bernhardt, Madame Anna Pavlova, Wilton Lackaye, Bransby -Williams, and Henrietta Grossman. The productions in which the foregoing artists appear are called: "Red Feather Photo-plays" and "Blue Bird Photoplays. -. .'.

"OUR BRITISH NAVY." Under the . direction of Mr. ■ Charles MacMalion, an excellent series of views of tho British Fleet, in being, were shown to a large audience at the Town Hall oif Saturday night, in- conjunctii# with a capital programme of other pictures. I "Our British 'Navy" shows in illuminative detail the. life and methods of the "stately ships that shake'.the shining splendour of the seas"—their manning and their maintenance, both on sea" and under sea, .from the fussing submarine to the stately super-Dreadnought. Tho earlier portions of this'interesting educative pic. ture are devoted to a brisk exposition of naval training, which conveys an admirable idea of the life'of the handy'man at sea, his duties and his relaxations alike. Views of the Australian Fleet, the Sydney (the ship that sank the Emden), and H.M.S. New. Zealand, precede a presentation of a battle of Dreadnoughts, a virile and forceful "counterfeit presentment" of the arts of naval warfare, which omits no least detail of the preparation for action, , and of the ultimate action itself. The supporting films include a big Klaw and Erlahger star feature, "The Wife," a social study, of considerable breadth and power; a'bright'comedy completes the programme. . The programme will be repeated to-night. ' SUNDAY CONCERT. A big orowd filled His Majesty's Theatre' last night, the attraction being a concert programme' arranged by He Wellington Tramways Band, under the baton ot Conductor G\ W. Bowes. The itoni6 in. eluded: Overture, "Giovanni D'Arco" (Verdi); "Les Cloches de; St. Etienno" (Shipley Douglas); selection from Verdi (a arranged by H. Round), and the contest' march Harlequin" (Rimmer). During the evening lliss Mina Caldow sang "Out of My Soul's Great Sadness," "Inter .Nos," and "How's My Boy." Violin solos w«re played by Mr. Haydn Beck, who was recalled for his rendering of "Romance" (Schumann-ICreisler), and "Chinese Daneo" (Kreisler). The items all met with the expressed approval ol the large audience. . '.j