ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3105, 8 June 1917, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

6 GRAJTD OPERA HOUSE. Another melodrama, entitled "The Girl Who 'Took the Wrong 'Turning,'' is tho Brandon-Cremer Company's present attraction at the Grand Opera -House. Tho two audiences who have seen tho play have fully enjoyed the entertainr A 2nt. Tonight -will bo the last chaacc oi attending. The members oi tho company do. justice to their various parts. Mr. Tuohy takes tho place of tho sailor lover, And ( Aliss Arnold that of the girl. Mr. Neil is responsible for most of the hunjour. To-morrow's roatinco will see tho comtAoncement of "Married to tho Wrong Man," end this will also be repeated to- | morrow evening. HI9" MAJESTY'S TSEATKE. | An appreciative audience again gathered j at His Majesty's Theatre last evening, j where a good entertainment was present* ■ ed. Two weU-lmown singers, Dora Ober- | man and Yiolet Trevenyon, headed tho bill, and both wero good'in their respective songs. The rest of tho bill was as Varied aB possible, and included items of comedians, dancers, balancers, and acrobats, etc. ' THE ENGLISH PIEttHOTS. Tho delight the English Pierrots continue to create lessens not a jot with each change of programme. One cheering feature about tho programmes is that each performer is completely different in every number, and there is never a. song that is repeated, though, cast programmes contain many that one would like to hear again. Miss Elsa Langley exerts the same refined charm in the new bill that fiho has in previous ones. To hear lier sins the song "Experience" is to appreciate what enormous gaps there are between artists in tho treatment of the, simplest songs. In this number her dainty witchery was only matched by tho. wealth of intelligence that l made the song a complete little comedy. Sho was also tery fascinating in "Roses" and "The Man in Uniform." Miss Billie "Wilson is the best child mimio wo have ever had in Wellington. Her pronunciatory screws and twists,.her faoulty' for leaving tune and breathing to look after itself, denote a close study of the juvenile, and withal sho has an abounding comedy sense that never plays her false. She sang "will You Miss Me?" in a winsome manner, and was delicious in "I Couldn't Help It," and the nonsense song which followed. A very talented member of tho Pierrots is Mr. Charles Lawrence, who is a comedian, pianist, and baritone, and equally good in each. department. "My Marriage" was a comic oddity *n which he scored last evening, but he utruck a deeper note in the musical monologue "What a Funny Little World?lt Is." Mr. Hoy Cooke's bn,ss voice was heard to advantage 5n "The Toreador's" song from "Carmen " and "What Might Have "Been," and Mr. Dajvid Lyle. tho pleasing tenor, sang "Love's Valley" ?vnd "I Hear You Calling Mo." Mr. Leslie Austin- and Mr. Layrrenco became romantic .in dress suits in "On Lake Ghampladn," "Sinir Me an English Song" (a. rag-time ditty in which I fun is noked at the stylo of the average ! ditty that comes out of Amorica). nnd I "Shop," -aririch is purely comic. Miss j Edith Harrold sang tho florid song "Carmena".and was encored, and Messrs. Louis j Mitchell and W. P. Turner contributed valuably towards the fun and frolfo of i the evening. Th<» best of tho ensemble numbers was "When Yqji Go To Pome" and "Nuts and May.*' "Kitty, the Cantain's Daughter." a musical sketch with a nautical twist, mode n a merry finale to the first nart. 'and the Tvrogramino concluded with "A Musical Court Scene" in ! whioh the strength of tho company sport--1 ed m> f , ? musingly as the personnel of a court of law. THE EMPRESS ; OTEATRE. j/'Tho Foolish Virgin," dara Kimball Young's latest photo-dramatic success, will complete a remarkably successful week's run this evening. It is hoped to shortly present her. next picture, entitled "Tho Price Sho Paid." Commencing toAlice Brady will make a reappearance in a drama by tho World Co., "The Dancer's Peril." In this picture Miss Brady has the support of Alexander Kosloff, of the Imperial Itus-sian Ballet. M'. Kosloff's dancing is said to be a remarkable feature of tha production, and as the stoTy is powerful enough to prorido full pcone* for Miss Brady's undoubted emotional talent, tho picture is expected to be well worth seeing. EVERYBODY'S' THEATRE. Enid Bennett will bo seen in her farewell screening this evening in "Tho Princess of tho Dark," in which she has tho part of a blind girl. The picture"is most pathetic in its conception, and the scene ,whcro tho girl regains her sight and finds that her ''Young Lochinvar'' is only a * poor hunchback is touching indeed. The end romantic. Billie Burke is as attractive as ever in "The Murderer at Bay." To-morrow William Lucas will be starred in "Jim Bludso," a Triangle play adapted from tho famous old poem round which ha* been written a vivid story of love, hate, and retribution. I "INTOLERANCE." Last evening "Intolerance" was again screened to a crowded house at the King's Theatre.--As pure spectacle, the picture is an achievement of such magnitudo and beauty that if cannot fairly bo estimated in terms of anything that has preceded it. The greatest scenes in the picture represent the faU of Babylon. Hero the imaginative appeal of the subject is inteiiEe, and here, if anywhere, the representation might easily fall short of the critic's expectations. But the fact is that in this part D. W. Griffith scores his big success. The vision he has materialised in the film is one that will never be forgotten by any .who have seen it. # In the other episodes he portrays, he is always the master craftsman, and in tho whole he has created something infinitely grander than tho picture-goer ever dreamed of before. There is another aspect of the production, though, and that is tho moral it protends to enforce. "Intolerance"-is an excellent subject for moralising, hut scarcely for euch crude moralising as the picture-play is capablo of. More need not be said on this point, for it is hardly likely that so ' a bio a man aB Griffith would insist on claiming philosophical value /or his production, when such lavish praise of its less doubtful merits is so froely conceded by all. ! JOHNSON REVUE-CO.-"' Tho bookings, according to the .management, promise, that there is going to °bo I a rush to His "Majesty's Theatre on'SaDurday to see the Walter Johnson Revue , Players in their first biff production, "Ehe Gramophone Girls." 'The actual initial production wiU b§. at the matineo on Saturday Mr. Johnson has won in Australia (this marks tho first tour of his combination jn New Zealand) tho reputation of having the best revue show, the FmJlers have handled to date, and it is stated that his records in Melbourne and Brisbane with "The Gramophone Girls" and other similar musical' comedy extravaganzas, have- never been approached. "The Gramophone Girls" is in two acts, and runs practically the whole evening, with the exception of the introduction of a couple of first-class vaudeville "turns." Twelve speaking parts fljre played by Walter Johnston, Harry Burgess (late of J. 0. WiHiamson, Ltd.), Jack ICearns, Lydia Carno, Lola Hunt, Belle Milctte. Vera Reams, .Walter Cornock, and Ernest Lashbrook (who was last seen'here as .tho Cat in "Tho Blue Bird"). f These principals are supported by ,a big bevy.of ballet cud chorus girls, and there are no fewer than 25 musical and dance numbers, including tho wonderful "Ju Jitsu Dance," as featured by Mr. Lashhrook and Miss Carne. Tho plan is now opefc-et the Bristol. REMARKABLE PICTURES OF NEW ZEALAND. What is described as a very fine programme of natural colour pictures, taken by the kinemacolor prpcess will commence a season at tho Town Hall on Monday next under the direction of Mr. William J. Shephard. pictures are '•

| entitled "The Wonderland of "New ZcaJ land," and "The World lleviowcd." Now /calandcrs will have 1 an opportunity of seeing tho magnificence of their own country when taken by tho natifral colour process. Tho Now Zealand scries were specially taken 'for the Government and aro to be shown in the Dominion for the first time. They hare been visited by thousands of people in the various States of the Commonwealth, whccc New Zealand haß pained a- big dHTertisement thereby. Tho wholo of tho Dominion is dealt with in . such a manner that tho greatest interest #is sustained throughout. 'Plie World Kevicwod'' shows 1 stirring events of Royal splendour in England iind Ireland. There is a fine series of Canada; of a varied nature, a quaint alligator farm with thousands of fullcrown alligator*, and many other attractive subjects. The plan is at the Bristol. "MAIUTANA." Tlicro is stated to be every indication of a largo audience being: present at the lown Hall on Saturday next, when the Royal Choral TJnion will perform that well-known and melodious otpera of Yincent Walla-cc, "Staritana." A fine rendering of tho many beautiful solos and concerted numbers with which this work abounds should bo assured by the engagement of such artists as Jfiss Helen Gardner, of Dunedin, Ifiss Mina Caldow, . Mr. Ernest Drake, of' Auckland, jfr. Hamilton Hodges, and Ifr. Cliag. It will be necessary for those wishing to 1 hear this opera to book their Beats at onco as tho box plan is rapidly filling, i 2s. and 3r. seats can be reserved without extra charge. One shilling tickets aro also on f&le at the box office. The final rehearsal will bo evening at St. .Tohn's Schoolroom, Dixon Street, at 7.30. The doors will open to-morrow evening at 7.15, and tho opera will commence at 8v