ENTERTAINMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16624, 22 August 1917, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE. Paul Stanhope and his company are proving very popular in their "latest frivolity, "Hokey Pokey," at the Opera House this week. The production is clever and beautifully mounted. Harold Lockwood and Murfayne, this week's newcomers, were again well received last night. The other items of the programme are all of a high order. KING'S THEATRE. The Queen of the Redskins," a sensational melodrama, is being well produced at the King's Theatre this week." The story is uncommon, and many quaint scenes are shown. The acting is generally convincing, and, owing to the unusual setting, the drama makes a distinct appeal. ST. PATRICK'S ORGAN FUND. The popular concert organised to augment the St. Patrick's organ fund will take place to-night in the Town Hall. The programme is a varied and attractive one, and includes the names of Miss Jessie Bartlett, Miss Rosa Sachs (dancer), Mrs Blythe, Miss Zoe Bartley, and Messrs! Lonergan, Gemmel, Alan McElwain j H. Egan, A. H. Ripley. J. W. Ryan, and the Lyric Quartette. The programme will conclude with a one-act comedy sketch "A Busy Day." Seats may be booked, free of extra charge, at Wildman and Arey's. TIYOLI THEATRE. The present programme at the Tivoli Theatre is attracting large audiences every evening. The picture "On Record" is essentially modern in its theme. The plot hinges on the race for the invention of an efficient aeroplane stabiliser. Numerous daring aeroplane studies are shown, one showing a sensational fall being especially well portrayed. Mae Murray is seen in the characterisation of a stenographer, who through an accident is put "on record." An excellent Paramount scenic study, of an unusual nature, is | shown. Two comedy pictures and the Australian Gazette are included in .he programme. QUEEN'S THEATRE. Marguerite Clarke is particularly winsome in her latest picture,'" The Fortunes of Fifi," now being shown at the Queen's Theatre. The picture deals with Parisian life in Napoleonic days, and the setting is quaint and charming. Numerous other films are shown. PRINCESS THEATRE. " Sowers and Reapers," now beinoshown at the Princess Theatre, is dis° tinctly original in conception. It is a case of a picture within a picture, the photography being worthy of mention. Emmy Wehlen acts well as the picture actress, and the interior scenery is good. Of the other films one dealing with wild life on " The Spanish Main is worthy •of special note. Other films are shown. OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS. " Clover's Rebellion" and a Chaplin comedy, entitled "The Rink," are the leading features of the current pogramme at the Strand Theatre. The principal attraction on the programme at the Globe Theatre this week is a photo-drama entitled " The Heart of a Painted Woman," " The Song of Hate " will be the leading feature of the new programme to be screened at the Lyric Theatre this ingA powerful Pathe drama entitled '"'Hinton's Double," is the attraction on the programme being shown at the Grand Theatre this week. Ethel Clayton is featuring in " The Stolen Paradise," a World Film production, which heads the programme at Everybody's Theatre this week. The novel picture. " His Sixteenth Wife," is the centre of interest at the Palace Theatre this week.

A picture play, " The Promise," with May Allison and Harold Lockwood in the leading roles, is being shown at the Alexandra Theatre this week.

The new programme to be presented at the West End Theatre this evening will be headed by a Pathe photo-play entitled " Hinton's Double."