ENTERTAINMENTS, ETC.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 142, 16 June 1906, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS, ETC.

OPERA HOUSE. At the Opera House last night) the Anderson Dramatic Company give the final preformance of "An Orphan ??" 88 '„, uTIu T1 " S evenin S " The ladder of Life wall be revived. It is a sensational military drama, in four actß, and amongst its most interesting scenes are a charge of Gordons on fclie heights of Dargai, their subsequent disembarkation at Devonport, and a sensational scene in a smithy in whioh the heroine of the piece narrowly escapes destruction under a hammer. Ihe living ladder,, by which, the. heroine makes her escape, will be provided by the bodies of the three acrobats. THE PANTOSCoFe PICTURES. A matinee exhibition was given in the ™ ?, « this aft ernoon by the Wide World Pantoscope Company, and a final exhibition is to be given in the same place this evening. The vocalist of tlhe company is Miss Novella, a recent arrival from Australia, whose songs are Uustrated by a series of beaulifully-colour-ed pictures. The animated photographs to be shown this evening include a unique colection of films taken in the thermal region of Rotorua, the picturesque and the maTvellous, with its bubbling pools, its spouting geysers, and its diverting Maoris. Popular prices will be charged for admission. "THE FATAL WEDDING." The season of the successful melodrama, "The Fatal Wedding," under the wellknown English directorate Messrs Meynell and Gunn, will open here at the Opera House on Tuesday, 26th inst An excellenV-eompany is associated with the production, and besides the English principals, Mi. Charles Vane and Miss May Congdon, tho company includes such well-known favourites as Auss Dma Cooper (late of the Knight-Jeffries Company), Miss Amy Singleton (of Musgrove'B "Sweet Nell" Company), Messrs. Herbert Leigh, a popular member of the Knight-Jeffries Company, Tom Cannam, of the "J.P." Company; C. R. Stanford, and Oily Deering, two old-time favourites, and Harry Maclerinan, of the Frawley company. Tho important part of the Little Mother is entrusted to little Maisio Posnor, whose performance has been spoken of everywhere as finished o*d clever. The plans for the brief season of tho company will open at the Dresden on Thursday next, iiist inst., at 9 a.m." THE CHORAL SOCIETY'S IN MEMORIAM CONCERT. Next Tuesday evening the Wellington Choral Society, of which Mr. Maughan Barnett is the conductor, is to give Handel's dramatic oratorio, "Samßon," as its first subscription concert of the 1906 season. The concert was to have been given last night, but was postponed out of respect to ilia memory of Mr. Seddon. It has been decided by the society to make an In Memoriam concert of the event, and tho net proceeds are to be given as a donation to the Seddon Memorial Fund. Tho concert must either be given on Tuesday or abandoned, as. the Town. Hall will not be again available until towards the end of July. "Samson" is a solemn and dramatic oratorio, and in the course of it the 'Dead. March in Saul" is played. When the March is played on Tuesday the audience will ba requested to stand, as a ; tribute of respect to the deceased Premier. The whole of the Vjsecond part of the work is a lamentation over the loss of Israel's great man, and, is peculiarly appropriate to the present time of mourning in New Zealand." The solos in the "oratorio' are to be taken by Misses Amy Murphy and Mina Caldow land Messrs:^ Leslie Hill and Arthur Ballance. AMERICA -AT WORK. "New York has no yesterday," writes a modern writer, and he might have added that Son Francisco had, and that it was very tragic. Edison's Popular Pictures will show New York lifo of to-day and San Francisco of the tragic yesterday, when the earth trembled and many buildings collapsed. "America fchc strenuous, the strange, and the sensational," will be presented by what is claimed to be the finest series of animated photographs ever thrpwn upon a screen, and that screen (of kineto-cloth) will be 28ft square. The inventive Edison's latest discovery has made a complete revolution in the printing and developing of moving picture films, and in the "Amercia at Work" series the process adopted is absolutely up-to-date. Whether it be a coloured display of fireworks at Coney Island, the swift passing of the largest ship afloat, the doings of a diverting dog, or the passages in the lifo of an American policeman— the- films are said to bo clear, flickcrleasly" 'produced, and of the utmost interest. • The "chase" pictures which will be shown during the season will not only be novel, but are declared to be "the best yet." The entertninmeiit is to be made up of one solid hour of things American and another hour and a half of fun, fancy, and laughter, interspersed with vocal characterUntioiis by Mr. Avalon Collard, an Engjiah tenor. Miss Olive Merton will direct the orchestra. ANDREW BLACK CONCERTS. The programme announced for the first Andrew Black concert on Monday night at the Town Hall is excellent in every way, and should give great pleasure to all. Amongst Mr. Black's items are — "Vision Fugitive," "Woo Thou thy Snowfluke," "Simon the Cellarer," "There is a Green Hill," "Flowers of the Forest," etc. Miss Sinclair and Herr Borschke will be heard in a complete change of programme, which will no doubt give tho same great pleasure as their former programmes her*. Mr. Horace Gleeson will again be the accompanist. The box plan is on view at the Dresden. Both 5s and 3s seats may be reserved. The nautical bazaar of the Missions to Seamen was continued at the rooms in Whitmore-street yesterday afternoon and evening. Good business was done. In the ( evening an exhibition of sphere swinging was given by a team of ladies from Harrison and Juriss's gymnasium. A musical programme, arranged by Mrs. Hugo, was contributed by Miss and Master Caroline, Miss Woodward, Messrs. James Anderson and Thompson. The bazaar will not re-open until after Mr. Seddon's funeral takes place. Mian Hardinge-Mallby, assisted by some of her pupils, will give, on the 27th inst., at the Missions to Seamen, an entertainment! consisting of a dialogue to bo played by Mr. Hubert Fairwcather and Miss Maltby, recitntions by Mr. A. C. Spence and the Mißses Annie Kennedy, Ruby Baumgarti, Lucilla Thelland, and Lflli Beubow. Musical items will also be contributed by Miss Leila Spiller and Miss Myrtle Barber. The Japanese Fair and sale of work organised by tho workers of the three Congregational Churches of Wellington as a means of raising a substantial contribution to' the fund for the building of a church on the corner of ConMuble and Daniel streets, was brought to a conulysion in the Newtown Cburehroom last night. The total reeoipts for the four nrjjhts amounted to just under £200. At the concert given last night Mr. Sawtell repeated his ventriloquial and mimicry "turn," and a number of charades and tableaux were given by the young people of the church, the characters in the chaj rades being taken by Misses Wolfe, Head, and A, Cowan, and Messrs. J. Hut-chco L«ad A. Busg*,