ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2975, 12 January 1917, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Tho programme at His Majesty's Theatre attracted another largo audience last evening. All the items wero well received, mid Bmll. and Holmsley, :i clever and versatile duo, were unusually entertaining. Other contributors to the programme wore:—Tho C'aleys, Scotch singers; the National Duo, ragtime eiugers nnd dancers; Cestria, an Italian juggler; Miss Dora Obennan, soprano; and Mr. Leonard Nelson, whose popularity is increased with each reappearance. There will be a matineo to-morroiv, nnd tho programme will bo presented fdi , the kst time to-morrow night. THE KING'S THEATEE. There will be a matinee to-day at the King's in order to accommouate the crouds which aro anxious to see the fiue travel picture of New York by Night and Day. The picture will be finally screone'd this evening. To-morrow the star attraction, ie Manhattan Madness," a story of mysterious happenings ou Manhattan Island, in which Douglas Fairbanks has great opportunities. There will also be a epecial Mary PickJ'ord film for the children at 2.30 each day, commencing to-inorrow. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. The novel Triangle play, "Tho Jungle Child," with Dorothy Walton as the star, concludes a well-patronised week this evening. To-morrow morning at 11 there will be presented a special attraction starring the eminent English actorknight, Sir Herbert Tree, in a drama by tho well-known playwright, Rupert Hughes, entitled "The Old Folks at Home." The story was specially chosen by Sir Herbert himself, and is said to be ...Triangle's greatest play. "THE COMMON LAW." The present programme at the Empress, headed by "The Hand of Peril," makes way to-morrow for Eobt. W. Chambers's widely-read romanco of love and philosophy, "The Common. Law," which features the statuesque beauty, Clara Kimball Young, as Valerie West. Miss Young is said to rise to the pinnacle of her powers in camera-portrayal, and together with Director Albert Cappelani to share the honour of giving to the screen, one of the few roally great photo-dramas ever produced. The picture will commence at 10.30 and thereafter every two houra. The prices aro unchanged. ANZAC PICTURES. The exhibition of Anzac sketches by Sapper H. Moore-Jones will reopen at 11 a.m. to-day, at the Caledonian Chambers, in Willis Street. Tho sketches aro presented just as King Georgo saw them at Buckingham Palace. They give a remarkably clear idea of the difficulties our men had to contend with on. the peninsula, and should possess a very high value aB a permanent record "THE SENTIMENTAL BLOKE." To-night will see tho la6t but one of Mr. Lawrence Campbell's popular recitals from C. J. Donnis's ''Sentimental Bloke." A continuance of the good patronage accorded previous recitals may bo confidently predicted for the remainder of Mr. Campbell's 6hort eeason. "THE WAYBACKS." Interviewed during' his highly successful season recently in Auckland, Mr. Philip Lytton said: "I'm convinced that what tells above everything elso with the average playgo&r is clean fun coupled with strong human interest. That's what accounts for the pull of what wo know, as melodrama. It may not bo especially credible or high flown, but it meets tho people on a familiar basis of common, lmman feeling, and it always gives a sort of boost to the glnd side of life. Its sentiment may be forced, but it isn't falso. Virtue triumphs, honesty is rewarded, true love comes eventually into its own. ■ So it is with this comedy of "Tho Waybacks." There are no epigrammatic superior people in it. There is no dazzling interplay of questionable 'wit on thin ice. But there is hearty funstacks of it. There is tho homely geniality of ordinary folk in ordinary circumstances. That is tho comedy that pays, and the demand for such comedy is go-' ing to be big and' insistent in the future." Mr. Lytton will commence his Wellington season with "The Waybacks" at tho Grand Opera House on Tuesday next, January 16, the box plan being now open at tho Bristol.