ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2982, 20 January 1917, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

GRAND OPERA HOUSE. "The Waybacks," an Australian comedy, continues to attract large audiences at the Graml Opera House, and the performance will be repeated this eveniilg. Some iexceedingly humorous scenes are included in "The Waybacks," including "Dad's" visit to tho Minister of Works, and some lively dialogue from the neighbours on either side of the back yard of the house taken while the family spend the holidays in Sydney. There is also a somewhat' uncanny scone where all the lights are turned off and aghost appears. "Dad," acted by Mr. W. Stewart, is the nearest approach to an exact characterisation,- while Frank Shepherd as Charley Lyons, a lovesick farm Jiasd, Miss Betterton-Glover as "Mum," and Peter Savieri as D. T. S. Brown, an indigent nctor, sustain the principals.

• HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Two performances of the programme which has - been attracting large audiences throughout the week at His Majesty's Theatre will bo given to-day— the usual matinee and the evening show. A last appearance will be made in Wellington by Mankin, "the human frog." He is one of the most remarkable acrobats and contortionists seen in Wellington for some considerable time. Reg. Newberry, the Auckland l - boy soprano, is also on the bill, and his sweet voice makes bis item a, delightful and popular one. Elso Broil and Arthur Helmsley are very entertaining in a drawing-room sketch, and Air. Helmsley's dancing performance is a feature of the entertainment.

On Monday afternoon next a short season of one week only of the "Globe of Death," as featured by tho daredevil Staig Tronpe motor riders, will be presented. The "globe" is a huge cage sphere, built of steel, is 18ft. in diameter, requires a 30ft. wagon for transportation, weighs 2.J tons, took seven months to "build in New York, requires fifteen men to move it, and is the most expen-' sive and complicated apparatus ever constructed for an amusement pumose. Mounted tipon an "Indian" motor," fitted with Dunlop tires. weighing 2001b., Miss and Master Staig completely loop the inside 'of the globe, not once, but half a dozen times, at the terrific SDeed of a mile a minute. During this Jaredevil ride they cannot see, and ride by judgment and instinct. The motors when at full speed make 2200 explosions per minute. Intending patrons are advised to book their seats at the Bristol Company os the rush anticipated will be enormous.

THE KING'S THEATRE. "The Common Law," Robert W- Chambers's famous story, of life in the art studios of New York with Clara Kimball Young as the star, has been such ft successful drawing-card at .the Empress Theatre during the past week that arrangements have been concluded to screen the picture twice daily for a week at the King's Theatre, commencing to-day at 2.30. Though shown over 50 times at ■ the Empress Theatre thero were as many hundreds turned-away at the lost screening as there were at the first, and over thirty thousand people paid to 6ee the picture during the six days' run. The management wish to notify the public that seats may be reserved at the Bristol or by 'phone 3143.

"EYE OF THE NIGHT." Air raid 6 and other features of modern war are realistically shown in "The Eyo of the Night," screening to-day at Everybody's Theatre. In one scene, a lighthouse, under a rain of bombs, topples, and disappears in flame, leaving a transport which is driving on shore without a guide. A dramatic scone in tho story is where David Holden, the old lighthouse-keeper, makes a beacon for tho doomed aliip by setting alight to his own cottage. Marjory Wilson, as tho heroine, earns golden opinions, and her emotional acting bids fair to mako her soon one of the leading. Triangle stars.

THE EMPRESS. I "The Common Law" finished a phono-. nienullylsuc'pesSfiil'tfdek at'the Empress Theatro last evening, and has now been transferred to the King's Theatre for a week. - ■ -At the - Empress ".Theatre, • commencing this morning there will ."bd.X double-feature programme,) which, includes the latest Mutual Chaplin feature, "Tho Count," in which the.famous funny man is seen as a tailored gentleman with a linoago that reaches riglit back to tho tailor's shop. Chaplin resumes in t'his picture tlio make-up which brought him fame. Auckland theatres report "The Count do Chaplin": to be as funny as "Tho Shopwalker," which is saying a good deal. Tho other star attraction will bo "Friday the 13th," a story of Wall Street, by T. W. Lawson.

i "SUNDAY." Much interest is being centred in the forthcoming revival on Wednesday night .at tho Grand Opera House of the com-edy-drama, "Sunday," especially in view of the fact that the young English actress, Miss Madgo Surtees, makes a first appearance here as "Sunday.' She has received ver/ flattering criticism in tho south, and her visit here is being awaited with interest. It is about' 12 years since '."Sunday" was last presented in the Dominion, and. the wonder is that it has not long" since been revived. "Sunday" can only be presented for a few nights as the season is a brief one. Another;, strong attraction is the smart comedy "The Fortune Hunter." The box plans will be opened at the Bristol on Tuesday morning. .. ..' . . ;