AMUSEMENTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 14167, 15 September 1906, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL. The final performance of the “ Worst Woman in London” was given in the Theatre Royal last evening by the William Anderson Dramatic Company, in the presence of a large and thoroughly appreciative audience. This evening “The Face at the Window,” a drama that is’said to justify its claim to be one of the most weird, sensational and realistic dramas of the day, will be staged, with all the lavish detail characteristic of the company. In the first act a murder is committed, after aweinspiring premonitions, such as an unearthly cry, and the appearance at the window of the “ Face.” Sensation succeeds sensation in rapid succession, amongst the most effective being “ The Marked Hand,” “ The Rogue’s Retreat,” and “ The Struggle on the Rooftops.” “The Face at the Window” will be staged for three nights only, and on Wednesday “ Between Two Women ” will be produced. CHORAL HALL. The Whangarmi and Arawa Natives who are constructing the. Maori pa in Hagley Park for the Exhibition, gave a second entertainment in the Choral Hall last evening, before a fairly large audience. To the uneducated Britisher the programme was not very much unlike that of the previous evening, but at least it was none th© less enjoyable, and in its disregard of conventional stage limitations, it was altogether refreshing. ITakas and poi dances, the intricate double poi dance,among them, bulked largely in the .entertainment, and in these branches of their art th© Natives were never weary of well-doing. With their characteristic facility of entertaining themselves quite as readily as the audience, they were willing to grant the many demands for encores, even when it meant th© repetition of a haka, which consisted of contortions of the body and horrible grimaces made by two opposing troops. The introduction of a. haka proper to the ceremony of carrying food to guests was somewhat of a novelty, and the allegorical representation or th© playing of Tutanekai’s flute was successfully repeated. OPERA HOUSE. There was a very good audience at til© Opera House last evening, every turn being enthusiastically received. To-night there will ho an entire change of programme, when some new artists will appear, including the accomplished acrobats, the Lenton Bros, and Gredge and.‘Gibson, society sketch artists. WAINONI PARK. There have been large attendances all the week at W r ainoni Park. One of the attractions has been Professor Bickerton's varied., and brilliant experiments in electricity, from the simple attraction of rubbed amber to the complex high potential coil and storage battery. This week the. large new boat-landing stage has been finished. A part of the landing has been built sloping, to allow for the different heights of the river owing to the tide. The landing is sixty-five feet long.