ENTERTAINMENTS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 140, 10 December 1913, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. There was another good attendance at His Majesty's Theatre last evening, and the many attractive? items were appreciatively received. Mahoney Brothers and Daisy presented an amusing turn, " Daisy," an intelligent little Prince Charles spaniel, receiving loud applause. The Vienna Trio contributed some excellent music, and the Creightons astonished the audience by their dexterity in various acrobatic and iuggling feats. Other performers were : The Aerial Benos, Henry and May (trick cyclists), Miss Eileen Caple, Jack Shields, and George Rowley. An interesting budget of the British Biograph was also shown. WELLINGTON LIEDERTAFEL. This society s final concert of the present season will be given in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall on Friday evening. The Liedertafel will be heard in a varied selection of part-songs, and solos will be sung by Messrs. J. W. Gard and James Searle (tenors) and Messrs. Hanley, Natusch, and F. V. Waters (baritones). The assisting artists are Madame Edith Brainsby (contralto), who will render songs by Bohm, Max Skange. Dorothy Foi-ster, and Hermann Lolu\ and Mr. H. Moschini, whose items will be a clarinet solo and a duet for clarinet and piano, with Mr. Robert Parker. The seating plan is at the Dresden. 1 BRITANNIA THEATRE. On Monday evening next the Britannia Theatre (Wellington's newest continuous picture theatie) will be opened. The building is in the centre of the city's "picture world" and should receive a fair share of patronage. The appointments and general furnishings and decorations of this place of amusement are said to be on an elaborate scale. Tip-up upholstered and plush seats are installed throughout the building, and there is also a lounge, a telephone for general use, cloakrooms, a balcony, and refreshment rooms. Two of the latest in picture motion machines have been installed, and a staff of efficient operators has been engaged. As every endeavour has been made to secure a regular supply of the world's best in moving pictures, this new proposition should Erove popular. A competent orchestra as been engaged. n < THE NEW THEATRE. The concluding sessions of the present programme of the New Theatre Continuous Pictures are announced for this evening. "The Diamond Makers," a sensational Rex draniagraph is at the head of the list. It is supported by "In the Southland" (Lubin drama) and numerous other films of a varied type. To-mor-row's change will introduce a dramatic portrayal by the Aquila Company, entitled "Saved By a Sister's Love." SHORTT'S THEATRE. To-morrow will' see the customary change of programme at Shortt's Continuous Theatre, Willis-street, and for the occasion the management has secured an exceptionally interesting set of films. To-night the final screening will take place of a programme which has been extremely popular. The films are headed by a Kalem "masteijpiece" entitled "Tho Breath of Suspicion," a story of the trouble brought about by idle villago gossip.' To-morrow's "star" will be "The Prince of Evil," a Vitagraph drama over 2000 feet long. THE EMPRESS THEATKK At this evening's sessions of the Em> press Theatre tho current bill will be presented for the last time. The >main attraction is the spectacular "feature" drama of the Tripoli war entitled "A Hero After All." The central figure is a young army captain, who is dismissed from his regiment for misusing the military funds in an endeavour to win back the money he has lost at the card table. Also enjoyable are the films "When tho Monsoon Blows", "The Winning Punch," "Oscar's Heroic Poses,' and some others. An entirely new programme will be shown to-morrow. The selections by the Empress full orchestraare much appreciated. ' . ' • THE KING'S THEATRE. ■ A' picture drama, "The Seed of the Fathers," has aroused much interest at The King's Theatro this week. The theme is unusual, and is made up of a aeries of tragedies in the life of a proud and noble woman, who, in the end, realising that her son has the hereditary taint, snoots him just before the detectives claim him. The film runs to a length of 6000 ft, and is supported by "Love Ye One \nother," "Great Progress in Aviation," and other pictures. PEOPLE'S PICTURE PALACE. "The Diamond League," now showing at tho People's Picture Palace, Mannersstreet, is a very exciting film. It deals realistically with the extermination of a gang of villains who for a, long time hold sway in the diamond mines of South Africa. "Tho Kidnapped Train" (a railway drama) and "The Eclair Journal" are included in the supplementary filniß. There will be the usual change tomorrow, including a railway drama "Bloodhounds of the Law." THE STAR THEATRE. The visitation of the vices of heredity on the children of the children's children is graphically depicted at the Star Theatre, Newtown, m a film entitled "The Seed of the Fathers."