AMUSEMENTS.

Evening Star, Issue 13162, 19 January 1909, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

•THE SQUATTER'S DAUGHTER.' William Anderson's Dramatic Company successfully interpreted 'The Squatter's Daughter again last night before the bilge audience which occupied His Majesty's Theatre. Excellent work was done by the principals in exploiting the many exciting siluat’ons of the Australian play, and the seenical plot was linely contrived. The company appear in the same piece this evening. ’JME EDWARD REEVES RECITALS. Mr Edward Reeves will open bis short suies of elocutionary recitals in the Hums Hall to-night, when he will give Charle., Dickens's beautiful prose poem, ’ The Christinas Carol.’ The recital will occupy m .(nothing like two hours, and will be given entirely without the aid of notes ■ book of any kind. Whenever Mr Reeves has given ibis recital in the _Commonwealth he has met with enthusiastic and eulogistic reference.-. The theme for recital to-morrow evening is Conan Doyle's thrilling military story. ’Exploits of Brigadier 'Gerard.' Tim popularity of the theme and the well-known ability of Mr Reeves, who can tell it in an artistic manner, should result in an overflowing bouse, and bis bearers are promised a remarkable feat of memory and a splendid example of linished doe it ion. KMKORAT BAND OPEN-AIR ENTERTAINMENT. '(lie programme provided by the KaiKorai Hand for their entertainment in the Ca.risbrook Ground to-morrow night is the best yet put forward. The cinematograph films are a capital lot, and comprise 6,000 ft of first-class pictures --dramatic and comic. Among the. items Hie hand intend playing may bn mentioned ‘Reminiscences of the Plantation. 1 a selection which should Ire greatly appreciated. Considerable time has been s)K>Jil in rehearsing appropriate music for the pictures. A special ear service will he run to the ground. The concert commences at eight o’clock. WIDE-WORLD PICTURES. The above pictures continue to attract big audiences nightly to the Princess Theatre. This is hardly to he wondered at when the excellence ol the programme is token into consideration. The films on exhibition this week are a particularly good lot.