ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3126, 3 July 1917, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

t ' . . "BABY MINE." The rollicking lavec "Baby Mine" was repeated'' by tho Williamson Comedy Company at the Grand Opera llouee last evening buforo an audience that rocked with mirth. Its fun proved again to he simply overwhelming. Tho conspirators who set out to provide the would-be fond father with ;i baby and who sucoeed in providing him with an euphemral trio, develop a- series of extraordinary situations, and the uncertainty as to the outcome is maintained until tho final curtain. The I'lay is really made tho funnier by the element of earnestness that underlies its plot. The deluded father "is a very human man whose keen joy ii»f the fiction imposed upon him by a feather-brained wife has an acho in it for tho audience. The farce loses nothing of its humour in tho hands of the company headed by Miss Beatrice Holloway, who has the part of the childless and deceitful wife, and Mr. Itobert Qreig, as the obliging and blundering friend who undertakes to procure tho requisite buby. These clever players scored another marked success last night. "Baby iliuc" will bc / played again this evening.

illS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Another production by the Johnson Itevue company, entitled "TJie Kissing: Maid," is tlie principal feature ou tuo bill at ltia Majesty's Ttieatre this ween, i'lom start u> nnieh revue is a whirl oi' artlsue dresses, supplemented by. good singing ajm amusing sees and dialogue. "The liocky lioad to Dflolin" and "Tho Engiisn Language' , are two olever sougs of tho many. On tho other half of the bill aro several vaudeville items, including tho6c of The Eoyal Togas, and others.

THE KING'S THEATKE. A tantalisine mystery drama, with Earlo Williams as hero, is "Apartment 22," now being screened twice daily at, this popular house. Miss Kthel Terry, one of the screen's newest beauties, plays villi dainty feminine oharni opposite Mr. Williams, and the (ireater Vitagraph Company appear to have put all the power and polish of their new resources into this production. The story hinges on the finding of an unknown woman dead at the hero's epartmeut door. A laughable burlesque on "Roniea and Juliet" and a good topical ar« tho supports. "THE WHIP." The famous Drury Lano production, "The Whip," the sensational melodrama that ran lor two years in that home oi" sensational successes, has now been produced as a wonderful picture play, and will be presented at the King's for the first'time in New Zoalaud at nerf, Saturday's matinee. There will be special prices. THE EMPRESS THEATEE.

Charles Chaplin, in his funny Itutnal "Behind the Screen," occupies one half of the programme at the Empress Theatre, and Kitty Gordon, she of the marvellous dresses, take 6 up the otjier half with a Cue "World" play, called "The Haunting Shadow." Opening in a picturesque Ooreican village, the tiory swiftly moves to New York society circles. Mont-ague Love, in the role of a vengeance-seeking fishes nun provides many thrilling moments for the woman who has driven his brother to suicide. The Topical Gazette is good.

EVERYBODY'S THEATKE. Enid Eennct, the beautiful Australian girl whom Fred. Nlblo introduced to the. Triangle Company in America, makes an even greater hit in lor present feature. 'The Little Brother," than in her last splendid pioturo. As a newsboy her flpht with the boy on the corner is wonderfully strenuous lor a girl. The final scenes, where she blossoms into an alluring fashionable beauty, afford opportunity for some of the most bewitching actraß. Billie Burke appears this week in, "The Tow Fulfilled." "Gloria's Romance ,, will concliido next week.