ENTERTAINMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15930, 29 May 1915, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Messrs. Beaumont Smith and Leslie Hoskins'* comedy company will produce "Who's the Lady?" at His Majesty's Theatre until Tuesday evening. On Wednesday a most laughable comedy, "The Chaperon," will be staged. Briefly put, the plot hinges upon the ingenious scheme of the proprietor of a fashionable restaurant, who employs a professional male chaperon as a permanent member of his staff. Two fashionable young men have the system explained to them by the proprietor, and when the chaperon is away for an evening one of the pair takes his place. Most hilarious situations follow. ALLEN DOONE'S 'RETURN. , The popular Irish singing comedian, Allen Dooiie, is to return to Auckland for a season of 11 nightr-, and five plays will be staged. The season will commence on Tuesday, June 8, and the opening production will be "Barry of Ballymore,"' an Irish melodrama of an entertaining - type. It, tells of the renting of Bannon Castle by Tom Barry, a humbly-born artist, who has •in Paris achieved fame and fortune. The bannons arc fiercely antagonistic to the new tenant. Accompanying the rollicking, careless artist, are his mother and Nannette, a little French girl, who is Lord Bannon's daughter by a beautiful woman whom ho married and deserted. The Barrys adopted tho waif, and it is Tom's intention to force Bannon to acknowledge her as his daughter and mako her heiress to his estates. The plans for the season will open at Wildman and Arey's on Thursday, at 10 a.m. . "THE DANDIES." Bright and full of merriment-producing items, the current programme of " The Dandies" is attracting many people to the concert chamber of the Town Hall. Last night the audience was particularly pleased with the selections given, and was loud in its applause. Mr. Claude Dampier appeared to have benefited by his enforced rest, while tho other memberji of the clever company were decidedly good in their work. OPERA HOUSE. T)i usual matinee performance will be given at the Opera House this afternoon, the programme being submitted for the last time this evening. Many clever vaudeville artists are at present in Auckland, and the items they have given this week have been productive of much laughter. Chief amongst them is Dan Thomas, of pantomime dame fame.

"BRITAIN AT WAR.' A lecture on " Britain at War : Some Personal Impressions," will be delivered by Mr. T. W. Leys, at tho Leys Institute, Ponsonby, on Thursday next, in the. course of-which the lecturer «ill describe his experiences on the' Continent just before the war, the social political conditions in Britain, the threat of civil war in Ireland, the creation of a national army, the achievements of the navy, London under war conditions, and the general outlook. ST. CECILIA CHOIR. » "'■ The St. Cecilia Choir will give a concert in the Town Hall on Thursday, June 17. The proceeds, after paying expenses, are to bo donated to the hospital ship and the fund for helping the- wounded soldiers on their return, to New Zealand. The choir has been established uino months, and has over 200 ladies connected with it as performing members, thus making it the largest ladies choir in Australasia. PICTURE ENTERTAINMENTS. The . rg ! audience at the King's Iheotre last evening included 300 officers and men from the casual camp at the Domain, all of whom were present at the invitation of the management. The current programme. particularly good, and »cudes a fine military drama entitled "Shannon of the Sixth." Chief among the pictures being shown at the Queens Theatre is "The Lion, the Lamb «nd the Man," a drama full of inoideat. the programme will be changed on Monday h i m T, fc lahabte comedy, introducing both Mabel Normand and Charles, Chanlin, was shown at the Globe Theatre for. the first time yesterday. This picture and the remainder of the programme will bo withdrawn after to-night. The current 'pit-gramme at the Palace theatre is full of good pictures, chief amongst them being "The Engineer's Pf.nl. °

Tho second instalment of " The Troy o' Hearts," a serial picture, was shown at tho Theatre Royal, Kingsland, yesterday. Another good drama was entitled "Thou Shalt Not"

The clever moving picture actor, King Bagott, is featured at the Princess TheKtre in "Shadows of Adventures." He playes eleven distinct roles.

A sonsitijnal drama entitled " Beneath The Sea," will be shown at tlip. Grand Theatre for the last time to-day, The supporting films are good A good selection of picture 9 is now being shown at the Lyric and West End Theatres. Tito programmes will he changed on Monday. A fine war picture, dealing with a mother's sacrifice, is now being shown at tho King George Theatre. Another good drama has its setting in Egypt.