AMUSEMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 14515, 5 November 1910, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

ALHAMBRA THEATRE

The amateur trials at the Alhambra Theatre last night again proved a source of amusement, the audience frequently roaring with laughter. The Apollo brothers, weight-lifters and physical exponents, will make their first appearance to-night. A strong attraction is promised on .Monday evening, when Nat Clifford, a well-known English comedian, will appear at the head of \-i new company. There will bo a minstrel first part. HAY WARD'S PICTURES. To-night in the Hum* Hall Messrs Hayward will present a programme of moving pictures new to Dunedin. Comic, scenic, and dramatic films will be included. The music will be supplied by Hayward's Bijou Orchestra. FULLERS' PICTURES. The new programme was presented for [\\.s s-econd lane last evening, and the Princess Theatre was filled with an audience who followed with unflagging interest the incidents told in each picture story Tho scenic films dealing with the beantnui and historic county of Devon and the Ivorwcjrian fiords are very line, worm going a lon'' wav to see. There is no picture tnat stands 'alone, but all maintain a high level of excellence. The programme will .be .repeated to-night.

•PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK.' On Monday evening next the PlimmcrDennifiton Company will inaugurate their Dunedin season by the production, of Jerome K. Jerome's remarkable play, ' The | Passing of the Third Floor Back.' JerI omc, with his insight into character and warm sympathy with suffering humanity, has produced a play, subtly and .skilfully [ written, with a suggestivenoss vhat piques curiosity, and which should bo approached, like 'Peter Pan,' in the proper f pirit. The scene* are marked throughout by artistic work, and the interest deepens constantly as the drama movce on. Tho sunlight." in the literal as well as_lh u metaphorical tense, the inotn m some of the strongest scenes, parliculirly when tho stranger encounters 'Stasia, the little London "boa.rding-houec "sla/ey, ' and Vivian, the girl who is made to tee that life would be unendurable wit!i Hit love, even though it did entail poverty and struggle. Mr Harry Plimmer, .is the mysterious stranger, gives a 6ust.ain.vl representation, and Mies Lizctto. Parkes will impersonate, a part, which might easily admit of exaggeration—that of 'Stasia, the overworked little drudge, who has a son] hidden away somewhere in her qa&ira little body. " Mrs Robert Bxougb will niiiko a, welcome reappearance as M:s anarpe, the landlady; arid in a big i-nsst Miss Valentine Sidney, Mr S. A. Fi--i----gcrald, and Mr Reynold Denniston, among others, are given opportunities for excellent- character work.* The box plan is no v. open at the Dresden with no booiiinj charges.

Given a fine afternoon to-morrow, the playing of the Kaikorai Band in the Botanical Gardens is sure to attract a very iargft number of people. This fine combination oli instrumentalists can be relied ■upuii to provide an excellent musical tr&it for those who were to attend the contest, for included in tha programme are the content selections Wagner and ' L'Afrii criine.' Bcades these two selections the band will play by request ' Xearer, my Gcd, to Thee' and 'Lead, kindly light.' I An excellent programme was* submitted at His Majesty's Theatre last night, and I was mneh appreciated. The tug-ot-war between the waterside workers and Drainage Board No. 1 team proved a strenuous contest, the former team ultimately proving the winners of this event and of the contest, the Drainage Board team arid j Speight and Co.'e team will pull for second »li*» to-flkisbW '