ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3065, 28 April 1917, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

"WATCH YOUR STEP." The ."Watch Your Step" Company's entertainment at the Grand Opera House is still calling lovers of au amusing revue. Tho revue bristles with catchy 6ongs, and the whole performance is worthy of patronage, tho moro especially as tho profits nre to go to the Returned Soldiers' Association. On the opening night, as was stated at tho time, Air. J. Wallace Atkinson was unable to appear aa the Dame, and, according to a telegram received last evening, he is 6till in Auckland, although his name has, apparently through inadvertence, been left in the advertised cast.

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The matinee and the evening performance at His Majesty's Theatre to-aay will see the last of the programme which has proved such a success during tho week. The bill is an excellent one, and has been 'well received. The items include those of Lieut. Gordon, ventriloquist; Walter Emerson, comedian; George Wheeler, musician; Minerva and Grace, Tiny Tot and Marjorie, gymnasts and acrobats. KING'S THEATRE. • "The Enemy," a Greater Vitagraph production, will open at the King's matinee to-day. Peggy Hyland, described as one of the darlings of the New York comedy stage, is said to have a new type of beauty and to be a captivating actress. Charles Kent is well known as a powerful character actor, and in the role of a civil engineer, who has fallen from tho top of his profession through drink to be a gutter outcast, ho is given a role which affords him splendid opportunities. EVERYBODY'S. The new programme at Everybody's Theatre arrives at 3.30 to-day. Until that time there will be a special programme provided. Commencing at the above time Wm. S. Hart,' the big manly portrayer of life in the great outdoors, will be featured in the Triangle play, "Truthful Tulliver"—the etory of a fearless cowboy journalist who brought truth back into fashion in a wild and lawless community. Billie Burke will be screened in "Tangled Threads." .... THE EMPRESS. . Owing to the altered train services part of. the new. programme '/tit the Empress will not commence till 3.30 today. "The Vagabonds," the latest piece of clever laugh-making play by Charles Chaplin, and Clara Kimball Young in "The Rise of Susan" will make up the bill until the above time, and then Alice Brady, in "Tho Hungry Heart," will be substituted for "The Rise of Susan." The former production is adapted from .the smart Parisian play, "Frou Frou," and the story tells of a butterfly wife married to a man much'older, with the inevitable tragedy. The picture is reported to be excellently presented. "WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN?" The now famous propagandist picture, "Where Are My Children?" which caused something of a sensation in Australia, is to bo screened for a season at the King's Theatre, commenting at the matinee on Saturday next, under the direction of Mr, E. J. Carroll. Of its first New Zealand presentation at Auckland recently, the Auckland "Star" 6aid:— Tremendous in its indictment of a monstrous, an inhuman practice, remorseless in the way it brings a great and widespread social evil before the glare of publicity, strikingly daTing in its theme, and 'with a plot abundant with recurring episodes of the most sensational appeal, the Universal film-drama "Where Are My Children?" is now being widely discussed by every section of the community. The film was unspooled on the Lyric screen for the first time on Saturday, prominence being given to the decision of the censor that no person of less than'lß years be allowed inside the building during the screening," Th'e'subjeetrtaken for the plot of the play is the race suicide practised by society women, who are.6o selfish as to be annoyed that their pursuit .of".pleasure"is 'interfered with by the'coining of a child. The whole subject "is "handled with that delicacy,'which the screen alone can use, and must bring home to the multitudes that will witness it the evil truth, and the whole of the truth. One feels instinctively that spoken words accompanying the drama would change .the message to ouq of baseness, and it is also borne home that the many who will come to scotf will, in. tho words of the poet, "remain to pray." The boxjlan will be opened at the Bristol on Wednesday next. THE CHERNIAVSKYS. The Cherniavskys, the talented Russian musicians, are about to pay a return visit to the Dominion. Sympathy and ousemble being the two most impor. tant factors in really great trio playing, it is easy to understand how the Cherniavskys are what they are to-day. Brought up side by side, playing together not only in trio but also in solos accompanied by each other for the last fifteen or sixteen years—these factors joined to their phenomenal native talent have combined to produco excellent exponents of trio playing. The young Russians will appear here on' May 12 and 14, in tho Town Hall.