ENTERTAINMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13834, 21 August 1908, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

If Mr. Frank Thornton's season were not limited by prearranged dates there seems no reason why he should not add to his many records of lengthy runs by one at His Majesty's Theatre of the present production of " When Knights Were Bold." This delightful comedy has gripped Auckland theatregoers, judging by the large nightly audiences and the way they enjoy the play from start to finish. ''When Knights Were Bold" must, however, be withdrawn tonight to make room for a revival of that evergreen comedy, with which Mr. Thornton's name is associated throughout Australasia—" Charley's Aunt."

PONSONBY SHAKESPERE CLUB. The reading of Shakespere's well-known work "Hamlet" by the Ponsonby Shakespere and Rhetoric Club drew a very large attendance to the Leys Institute Inst evening, and an enjoyable evening's entertainment resulted. Characters were taken by the following:— B. Garland, Alice Gillett, B. Jackson. Messrs. E. T. Hart, Maxwell Walker. H. Hemus, A. Coutts, A. Alison, T. U. Wells, J. Irwin, and G. Bullen. ST. MATTHEW'S GIRLS' FRIENDLY SOCIETY. A successful concert was given by St. Matthew's Girls' Friendly Society in the Parish Hall last evening, the object being to raise funds to pay off the debt incurred in providing improvements to the building. Those who contributed to the first part of the programme were Misses Gillam, Fricker, S. Schutz, Butcher, Saunders. Reid, M. White, C. Brown, and the Rev. W. E. Gillam, besides which part and action songs were given by the Girls' Friendly Society's choir and Sunday-school scholars. In the second part the audience were treated to a farce entitled " Domestic Entanglement," the characters being taken by Misses E. Bridson, L. Brown, G. Gillam, E. Rae, H. Fenton and F. Emery.

This evening in the Y.M.C.A. Hall the Auckland Shakespere Society will read Goldsmith's comedy, "She Stoops to Conquer." -The cast, which appears in another column, is an exceptionally- strong one.. An appreciative audience met in the Pitt and Edwin Streets Primitive Methodist Church on Tuesday evening to hear the Rev. J. F. Dolierty give a musical limelight lecture- entitled " Curious Characters and Pleasant Places in the Old Country." The lecturer took his audience on a varied tour through England. Scotland, Isle of Man. and the Lakes of Killarney. Songs of a national character were sung at intervals by several singers. The Rev. W. S. Potter presided.