ENTERTAINMENTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1911, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE. - The Opera. -House was comfortably filled on Saturday evening on the occasion of tho seventh performance of "Seven Days" by Mr. Hugh Ward and company. The piece, which will be staged to-night for the last time, was brimful of amusing situations, and* kept the-audienee in fits of laughter the whole time. To-morrow night the "Girl from Rector's" will be produced, while on Wednesday and Thursday — the last two days of the season — the company will each evening present two attractions in the shape of "Tbe Scarecrow' r and "A. Bachelor's Honeymoon. The farcecomedy "A. Bachelor's Honeymoon" is familiat to Wellington theatre-goera on. account of its successful season here about two years ago. "THE BAD GIRL OF THE FAMILY." Mr. George Marlow's dramatic or ganisation will produce "The Bad Girl of the Family" at the Opera House on Easter Saturday night. .Referring to a recent performance, a contemporary says : — "The first curtain rose at 7.50 p.m. and the last did not descend till 11 p.m. The intervals were very &hort, and practically the whole three hours and a quarter were filled with sensational episodes, Tanging from burglary to ahduction, and including the substitution of one prisoner for another, and also of the bad girl for the virtuous heroine at the marriage altar." A matinee will be- given on Easter Monday. The box plan will open at the Dresden to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL. The last of a popular week's programme waß seen by a large audience at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night. There were more than the usual number of encores, and the bill went very well indeed. A change of programme is an- j nounced for to-night. A special attraction is prepared in the shape of the first j appearance of "The Racoons" (two men, a boy, and a dog), who are said to be a very clever acrobatic combination* HIS MAJESTY'S PICTURES. His Majesty's Theatre was twice crowded on Saturday, both morning, and evening. There will be a new programme this evening, pictures having been just received from London, New York, and Paris. "A Woman's Love" is among the new items; also, "Historic Spots of Old London," "The Blue Nile," "Winter Sports in Chamounhfc," and "The Italian Hydroplane. The Pathe Gazette will furnish topical I scenes; and "Jack Fat and Jim Slim" are among the comic studies. THE KING'S THEATRE. There will be a change of programme |at The King's Theatre this evening, including new industrial, topical, dramatic and humorous studies, received direct from England. The management is arranging for an animated beauty competition, entries for which cloae on 15th April. Oiu Good Friday night the management will exhibit West's and the Royal Pictures at the Town Hall, the subjects shown to be appropriate to the day. STAR PICTURES. The Star Pictures were presented again on Saturday evening last, before a large attendance. To-night the byweekly change of programme is announced, when some first-class studies are promised. PROFESSIONAL ORCHESTRA*. The Wellington Professional Orchestra, conducted by Mr. Herbert Bloy, gave its second Sunday concent of the season at the Towp Hall iasst evening before a very large audience. On the whole, the quality of the performance was not quite so high as at the first concert. In the introduction to the third act of Wagner's "Lohengrin" there was a lack of fulness and adequacy, particularly in the basses. Th& orchestra essayed for the first time in Wellington a selection from one of Wagner's earlier operas, "Rienzi," characterised by the mannerisms of the French grand opera of the day. The beginning was very fair, but towards the close of tJie selection several weaknesses developed. Throughout, however, the violins good. Gounod's "Saltarello," with its lively airs, showed the orchestra to greater advantage, but it was in Squire's "Yeomanry Patrol" that the best concerted playing of the evening was heard. The long crescendo and gradual diminuendo were beautifully managed. Perhaps the most attractive item of the evening — certainly the one that appealed to the audience most — was Mr. H. Moschini's clarinet solo, "Concertino" (Weber). The notes were clearly and brilliantly taken, and the whole interpretation was excellent. The performance was the more deserving of applause, as it was found the piano was half a tone down, and Mr. Moschini had to use his A instrument instead of i his B-flat one. The difficulty of the piano was repeated in the case of the ! vocalist of the evening, Mr. Stan N. Hutton, who sang^'Nearer, My Gcd, To Thee" and "Across the Bay"* (Glee- j son) with rather a lack of expression. Tho accompanists were Mr. Dave I Kenny and Mrs. Gardiner. FULLERS' SKATING RINK. | Messrs. Fuller and Sons will open the Skating Rink in Vivia-n-street on Wed- I nesday ne-xt. The floor has been placed : in good condition, and. the building has been artistically decorated and illuniinj ated by hundreds of electric lights. The ■ general, appointments should make for the comfort of patrons, and the management ,hae eupplied a large stock of ball-Dearing skates for hire. An orches- . | tra will be in attendance. A large staff of instructors, attendants, a-nd skate boys has been arranged. THE WANDERERS. | According to an advertisement in this issue, the triple charm of mu&ic, mirth, _ and merriment will be in evij dence in the programmes presented by "The Wanderers' " Musical Comedy I Company, which commences its .New j I Zealand season at the Town Hall on Saturday next under the management of ' Mr. George Stephenson. The company is a strong one, and has made itself very popular in Australia. The box plan is now open at the Dresden. Mr. Cremer, who has been leader of tha orchestra at Fuller's Theatre. Royal for some time past, has resigned that position owing to ill-health. The theatre staff and artists have presented Mr. Cremer with a clock, as a memento of his association with the theatre.