ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2984, 23 January 1917, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

"SUNDAY." The box plans for "Sunday," tho stirring comedy-drama, to be presented at the Grand Opera House to-morrow night by tho lioyal Dramatic and Comedy Company, will be opened at the Bristol this morning. Many comedy dramas have enjoyed popularity, but few as great and consistently as "Sunday," with Miss Tiltel Bruno in the title role, in New Zealand. Additional interest will be occasioned bv the appearance on this occasion of tho young English actress, -Mies Madge 'Surtees, in tho part. Sho will be supported by Mr. Ronald Eiley, in tho dual role of Colonel and Arthur Brinthorpe; Mr. Colvillo Dunn, ns Tom Oxley; Mr. C. B. Throsby, as Towser; Mr. Fred Cooper, as Davy; Mr. Gerald Harcourt, as Lively; Mr. George Hewlett as Jacky; Mr. Reg. Collins, as Abbott; Miss Beatrice Esmond, as Mrs. Noresby; and Miss Mildred Cnrlton, as the Nun. The play will be staged and mounted on the snme scale as characterised its production in Wellington some twelve years ago. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Ono of tho most genuino sensational acts over seen in vaudeville in Wellington is the "Glol)e of Death" act presented by tho Staigs at His Majesty's Theatre last evening. In this desperate act the performers positively flirt with death, for any inisjudguient of pace or failure of nerve must result in an accidont better imagined than, realfteili. Imagine a big globe, ISft. in diameter, made of criss-crossed bands, of steel. Inside this wicker work globe two of the Staigs, a man aad a woman, mount on ordinary safety bicycles, and tear round and -round at a giddy pace, passing each other with only inches to snare, until the roots of the hair begin" to tingle and one gets a shivery feeling up and down tho snine. Then two of tho men raise the hair "like qnills upon the fretful porcupine" by whirling round the interior of tho globe in opposite directions at different altitudes. Miss Staij* goes one hotter by doing a liair> raising whirl on a motor cycle. The culminating wonder, however, is when her brother 'Hoops tho loop," not once, buthalf a dozen times, on a motor cycle, an astonishing feat, which created a furore. Another marvollous act of a different character is that of the Arleys, who produce something new as head and pole balancers. In tho course of the act one of the agile performers / stands on.his head on the top of a long metal pole, supported only on his brother's shoulder, and is sufficiently at homo there to do a St. Vitus, dance in midair. The Do Bakers present their beautifully artistic poses as livine statuary, concluding with one entitled "Forward," representing a New Zoaland soldier in a. bayonot charge, in the symbolic figuro of New Zealand, represented by the Indy bearing tho flag emblazoned with the Jack and the Southern Cross. The Flemings, fine specimens of manhood, present an attractive strong-man act. their work being marked bj* a full measure of grace and repose. Alsace (without his Lorraine) reappeared with his violin, and "Alsacephone" (a fitldln with a gramnnhnnc attachment), and Edwards and Parkes pattered comically in a comedy sketch turn, in the course , of which Mr. Edwards recited C. J. Dennis's "Sinsriujr Soldiers" from "Ginger Hick," and made no end of a hit in it. Eesr. Newberry, the lx>y eoprano. sang several ballads very sweetly, and the National Duo, old favourites, danced with rare elan. Tho humour of the Caleys, Scotch comedians, was somewhat crude, and tho sons sung by Mrj Caley, as his own composition, is reminiscent of "The Deathless Army." Miss- Ada Russell's strenuous ballad singing was only fairly successful. THE KING'S THEATRE. Clara lumbal] Young in "Tho Common Law" continues to prove a. big attraction.. At both screenings daily there are largo and. appreciative audiences. Tho thirty-four thousand people who saw the production during tho first week seem likely to bo extended another ten thousand before the end of tho week. Tho management advise that reserves may bp obtained at tho Bristol or by 'phono 3143. 'EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. "If tho Triangle Company can maintain tho standards readied in the last half-dozen pictures of this brand screened hero in six months' time tho company's productions'should stand as tho most pre-eminent in tho industry in this .country as they already aro in America." Thus spoke one of the Dominiou's most prominent nicture critics after seeing "The Eye of the Night" at Everybody's Theatre. The picture tells a story of England's East Coast in the present war. Thrilling air raids and fine human touches figuro in the play. THE EMPRESS /I'HEATRE. Two very fine pictures—a comedy and a drama—make a well-balanced programmo- at. tho Empress Theatre. "Friday tho 13th," the widely-read book by T. M. Lawson, the Boston millionaire author, whose Stock Exchange revelations caused a sensation recently, provides tho basis for a first-class photoplay of the same name. The drama, includes a number of actual scenes in Wall Street, New York, and while recounting a most entertaining stoiy of a woman's fight in tho financial arena, at tho same time treats of the inside workings of tho Stock Exc'hango in a manner probably never before attempted for the screen. "Tho Count" is Chaplin's latest Mutual comedy, and judging by the volume of hilarity it evokes must be the little comedian's funniest yet.