ENTERTAINMENTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 72, 26 March 1909, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL. Fullers' pictures, in conjunction with the cinephone, are attracting interested audiences at the Theatre Royal. The week's programme will be repeated for the last lime to-night, fresh novelties having been arranged for to-monow. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Royal Pictures were largely patronised last night, every seat being I occupied. The- new programme is a decidedly good one, and contains some* fine scenic pictures. The comic picture, "A Woman Chauffeur," is very funny, and causes much laughter. The dramatic subjects are also well chosen. A .natinea will be "held to-morrow afternoon. AN "AT HOME." A social gathering took place in the Newtown Congregational Schoolroom last evening, when members and friends were entertained at an "at home" by the Rflv. W. A. and Mrs. Evans. About two hundred people were present, and, with music and song, a very pleasant evening was spent. During an interval the Rev. Mr. Evans gave a short address, outlining the social work it was hoped to inaugurate during the winter. The members proposed to open the schoolroom for a series of musical evenings, at which the best popular music would be given. Other evenings would be devoted to popular lectures upon such subjects as the housing problem, with reference to the manner in which, the problem was being solved in Bourneville and other manufacturing centres in England. Mrs. Evans also spoke upon the need of women as helpers. ORGAN RECITAL. An organ recital will be given in the Town Hall to-morrow' evening by Mr. Maughan Barnett. An interesting, proframme of high-class compositions has een arranged. Some numbers included are the fantasia "Carmen" (Bizet), Toccata and Fuguo in C (Bach), Nocturne in G minor (Chopin), etc. Thtj first item will be given by special request. HAYDN BECK SACRED CONCERT. Master Haydn Beck will give the second of his present serie^ of concerts on Sunday evening next at the Town Hall, and an attractive programme has been prepared. Amongst other items the violinist will play the famous- Hubert Leonard's arrangement of the "Hymn to the Emperor." The Wanganui Chronicle styled his playing of this work as "a remarkable performance." Master Beck will again be assisted in Wellington by first-claes artistes.. THE URBAN PICTURES. All arrangements are complete for the opening night of the Urban Picture Company at the Opera House on Monday. An attractive programme has been arranged, full particulars of which will be announced to-morrow. It is claimed chat the pictures will be all new to Wellington, and will include gb'mV fine 'pictures of travel in distanij lands. One will be of Italy, andl another will Bhbw the ruins caused by the disastrous earthquake at Messina. The heroic way in which the man-o'-wars-men worked in rescuing the injured finds a prominent place in the picture. Several matinees are to be given during the season. THE ROYAL WELSH MALE CHOIR Thursday evening next will witness, at the Town Hall, the return, for one night only, of the Royal Welsh Male Choir. Messrs J. and N. Tait intend investing the "Welshmen's final rally" with popular interest by enabling music patrons to take advantage of th» last opportunity of hearing the choir prior to departure for the Old Country. The box plan opens at the Dresden on Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Mr. M. Marcus is due at the Bluff on Monday, heralding Harry Rickards's Vaudeville Company. Cinquevalli will be the particular star, and associated with hini will be the Latonas, Lawson, Namon, the Scottish Meisters, Guest and Newlyn, Fanny Powers, Arthur Harris, Nellie Maunsell, and Tom Dawson.- The company opens in Invercargill on sth April, and will commence a season in Wellington on 19th May. Mr. Geoffrey Nye, of West's Pictures, arrived in town to-day to make arrangements for an Easter season in Wellington.