AMUSEMENTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16550, 14 May 1914, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

OLYMPIA RINK. The Olympin, Rink is still very well patronised', and thore was a large attendance last night. It will be open as usual to-day and to-night. QUEEN'S THEATRE. " Count Zarka," a sensational drama dealing with political intrigue, was the principal item of the current programme at the Queen's Theatre during yesterday's sessions. The same pictures will be shown to-day. GLOBE THEATRE. There were good attendances at the Globe Theatre yesterday when Monday's program mo was presonted for the last time. To-day a new series of films will be submitted, comprising " For the Wearing of the Green" (Irish drama), " Tho Christian " (drama), " The Tango Dance," " Gaumont Graphic" (topical), and "One-round O'Brien's Flirtation" (comedy).

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. This week's programme was repeated at His Majesty's Theatre last night and will be given again to-night. FULLER'S PICTURES. The programme given on Monday was repeated at the Colosseum last night. It will be repeated to-night. OPERA HOUSE. Another large audience attended the Opera Houso last night and the vaudeville programme was much enjoyed. Hanlon, Dean and Hanlon, in their comedy acrobatic act; William Sumner, coloured vocalist and dancer; and M'Donald and Generaux, Scotch specialty artists, were enthusiastically received and the remainder of the company were very successful in their items. To-night the programme will be repeated. On Saturday a children's matinee will bo given. Items of much importance are tlw Tango competitions which will tako place shortly. SYDENHAM PICTURES: The current programme of pictures at the Sydenham Theatre was witnessed by_a large and interested audience last night. This evening a complete changd of programme will bo presented which will include tho " star " dramatic film, "Leah Kleschna," the history of tho daughter of tho master thief' of France. The film is a representation of the drama so successfully played in Christchurch a few years ago by that clever actress, Miss Tittell Brune. The supporting pictures are: "Tho Pathe Gazette" (topical), " Around Oamaru" (scenic), "Caught Courting" (comedy-drama), " A Sketeh of Venice" (scenic) and "Mabel's Strange Predicament '' (comedy). i

GRAND ir rHEATRE. "Jim Dolan's Escape" aud tho other pictures of tho programme at the Grand Theatre were well received for the last time by large audiences yesterday. The new programme for to-day will consist of films entitled "From Out of tho Storm" ("star" drama), "The Mysterious Way" (drama), " Reformed by Strategy" (comedy), " When the Hurricanes Took up Farming" (comedy), "Easy Coin" : (comedy), " Impressions of Japan" (scenic), i and "Tho Warwick Chronicle" (topical). MAUD ALLAN~ IN CLASSIC DANCES. "Miss Maud Allan's dancing is classic, and delicate as it is classically beautiful, or as if she were indeed the figure and the movement of life," wroto a critic recently. "Bare of feet and limbs, with tho filmiest of silken tunics draped upon her in classic lines, she seemed some nymph who might wander all day in tho forests, sporting with tho sunbeams and shadows, svraying to the whispering of the wind, bounding to its louder call—and in its silences one could almost hear tho pipes of Pan. You see, one can't help speaking in pootic terms of Miss Allan's dancing, for it is poetry itself and no other terms express it. She is slender as a classic figure must be, supple—grace itself. Her feet, long, slender, touch the earth so lightly and swiftly that she seems about to float away like ono of the feminine figures in Bisson's 'Flowers of the Morning.' The best expression she gives with her nether limbs is in her bounding leap now and then into the air, which is perfect in its classic suggestion and poise. Miss Allan really does most of her dancing with her arms, her wrists and her flexible long hands. Some of the critics have claimed that music cannot be expressed in concrete form. Miss Allan at least follows and defines the theme exquisitely and her phrasing is perfect. The undulating, graceful movements of hands, arms and limbs, with the entrancing music, make up a dream of poetic motion and* harmony of sweet sounds. Every muscle responds delicately to the swaying of her body."