ENTERTAINMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16823, 13 April 1918, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TOtMght the last performance of the successful play, " The Story of the .Rosary," will be given at His Majesty's Theatre. The season has been a very successful one, and Mr. Wilkie and his company have firmly established themselves as favourites with Auckland playgoers. There will be a matinee of " The Story of the Rosary" to-day at 2.30 o'clock. On Monday nipht the company will play at Hamilton. OPERA HOIHE. At the Open House tonight, the Paul Stanhope Revte Company will make its final appearance before a New Zealand i audience, after a very successful season, extending over 7} months. It will also be the final appearance of the Trio , Classique Instrumentalists. On Monday night the Walter Johnston Musical Revue I Company, which has just concluded a successful tour of New Zealand, will re-! open a short return season with an en-; tirelv new musical burlesque, entitled, "The Globe Trotters." This will be the, first presentation of this play in New Zea-j land. KINGS THEATRE. ''It's Always the Woman." which is to | he staged to-day at the King's Theatre, j is said to be a powerful emotional drama, founded on incidents, resembling in many respects those contained in the ever-j popular " East Lynne. The story of the play is quite distinct, however, from Mrs. J Henry Wood's great work, as the cast of I characters indicates. Margaret Desmond i is the victim of the scheming intrigues of • Major Stevington and Paula Carlton, and ultimately seeks refuge in a convent. The j plot is thoroughly worked out, and brightened by much wholesome comedy. It has proved to be a most attractive and successful drama. It will be staged for the first time at to-day's matinee. MUNICIPAL ORGAN RECITAL TO NIGHT. British, French, and American composers will be represented in the programme for the Municipal Organ Recital in the Town Hall to-night. The organ solos will include popular works, in addition to a selection of standard works for the instrument. Songs by Liddle and j Sanderson will be sung by Mr. Ernest Drake. BOHEMIAN ORCHESTRA. The Bohemian Orchestra will open its fifth season on Thursday next with a programme that should prove highly attractive. Coleridge-Taylor's fine Ballade in A minor, of world-wide fame, will be given for the first time by the Bohemians, and a very liberal orchestral section includes .Massenet's popular " Don Caesar da Bazan " selection, two of Brahm's Hungarian dances, a Keler Bela overture, a Beethoven minuet for strings, a Dvorak humoresque, and an entr'acte by Home. Miss Jessie Bartlett and Mr. Ernest Drake will contribute solos and a duet, and Mr. George Poore, flautist, will also appear. TTVOLI THEATRE. Lou Tellegen and Mary Fuller will appear at the Tivoli Theatre to-day in the latest Paramount drama, " The Long Trail." This picture, a story based upon the words of the popular song, should at the present time arouse considerable interest. The tale concerns a Canadian trapper, the leader of the rough men of the town in which lives Michette, his love, and Robert Graham, with his wife and his ward Louise, a penniless girl bullied into an engagement with Wallace Newton. Her interest in Andre, the trapper, rouses the jealousy of her fiance. Louise has a brother, Paul, who, by a series of deceptions, finally becomes the cause of Michette'a death. Andre, totally ignorant of the fact that the man is his wife's brother, resolves to have revenge, and sets out in search of Paul. Meanwhile, Paul kills a man in a gambling fight, and becomes a fugitive. He comes to Andre's cabin, where his identity is disclosed just as the trapper is about to kill him. A dramatic scene follows, in which Paul is shot while trying to escape, Special music will be supplied by the Tivoli Orchestra. PRINCESS THEATRE. The powerful moral drama. "Enlighten Thy Daughter," a play in seven acts, said to be a vivid and direct treatment of a grave pro bier i, is to be shown at the Princess Theatre this afternoon and evening. Using abundant evidence from real life, the play is said to deal straightforwardly with that problem of sex that confronts every girl, and with the disastrous effects that arise through keeping her in the dark regarding the facts of life. The text of the nlay is a message to parents to warn their daughters in time, so that they may not fall a prey to the various evils which beset them in later life. It is said that the story is in no way conventional, but that it treats this somewhat daring subject in delicate and decorous fashion. The main interest of the story centres round two women, one of whom has been warned of evil, the other ignorant of sin. It is said that the consequences of this hiding of facts are most graphically shown. The picture has been produced by the Goldwyn Corporation, in whoso studios " The Auction Block was also prepared. Miss Rubye de Remer, who appeared in that | Bex Beach story, is at the head of the cast j in " Enlighten Thy Daughter." Owing to the great expense incurred in obtaining I this film, the management of the Princess , Theatre has been obliged to raise the tariff. A feature of the entertainment will bo the music supplied by the Peerless Orchestra. PALACE THEATRE. An adaptation of 0. Henry's popular tale, "I Will Repay," will be screened to-day at the Palace Theatre. A young magazine writer is sent for to conclude a contract with a lady miter. Ho gives a torn note to the darky driver of his cab, and upon the amazing reappearances of that torn note the story is based. Corinne Griffith will be seen in the leading role. LYRIC THEATRE. "The Awakening," a picture said to bo full of dramatic power, will be shown today at the Lyric Theatre. It comes from the well-known World Studios, which have produced some excellent plays. '"The Awakening" is said to be one of the finest! releases to date. It. is a tale of life among j the inhabitants of the Latin quarter of I Paris. It sets forth the manner by which a man of evil nature is redeemed by the love of a woman. There is a very sen-' Rational duel scene in the play. Other' pictures will be shown. GRAND THEATRE. At. the Grand Theatre to-day, the popular film, The Beggar of Cawnpore," will be revived. This picture had a very successful run when shown here before. It shows in graphic manner the horrors of the Indian mutiny. The massacro of Cawnpore is said to be reproduced with' great regard to historic detail. H. B. Warner, who made a success of "God's Man," plays the title role. The eleventh chapter of " The Master Key," and other plays will be shown in support. NATIONAL THEATRE. The programme at the National Theatre, which is described as the finest and most up-to-date in the Dominion, contains a Rluebird super-feature film in five acts, entitled "Mother o' Mine." It is an adaptation of the tale of the same name, by Elliot J. Clausen. The principal performers will be Rupert Julian, Ruth Clifford, and Ruby La Fayette. A picture of great artistic merit, it deals with the life of a man whose personal ambitions made him forgot his love for his mother. Humoioiis incidents and human touches are said to he well blended in this remarkable tale. There will be a good supporting picture, and special music will be supplied by the very capable orchestra. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE '• The Awakening," the latest release from the World Studios, will be the attraction at Everybody's Theatre to-day Briefly, the story is as follows :—Jacques was called " The Beast," but the good in him was reached by adorable Marguerite, There was another man in the artists' colony who coveted Marguerite, and who bragged and lied about her spotless purity that he might obtain tier. And when Jacques received her letter saying "I am a defiled woman." ha be« i i 4

lieved she was other than his droams had made her. The conclusion is> said to be most dramatic. Dorothy Kelly and Montague Love will appear in the production. The scenes of Parisian life are said to be startling in their reality. 18 WEST END THEATRE. 16 " Unprotected," described, as a thrilling ' s drama of a Southern prison camp, will ry be the attraction for tc-day at the West s End Theatre. Blanche Sweet will be n _ screened as the heroine. The supportins programme will he Divorced, a v " drama, Setting Fashion." a comedy, iie and the latest Australian Gazette 50 ) QUEEN'S THEATRE. A Metro play reputed to be of special merit will be shown to-day at the Queen's Theatre. Emily Stevens ul F lavs Un roles ~ ' Jlllet nc ' and ls Lillian Ford, cousins. Although tie , girls are alike in appearance, their h J natures are vastly different. L:!ian comfM mits rash deeds, and when caught uses io I Janet's name. Lillian marries an English ■nobleman, but. tiring of him. she elopes - I with Rosamond. Janet goes in her place a to care for the little one. who now ex- : penences for the first time the love a n ] I mother should give. Sir Anthonv is de , : lighted at the new nobility of character •• shown by the woman he belie to be his _ ! wife. Then Lillian reappear'". How th:s dramat'c situation is met and the problem solved forms the climax to a photo-play ,of gripping power. The supporting pro'to | gramme is said to be a very good one a, GLOBE THEATRE. '.| The films to be shown to-day at tir", Globe Theatre are "Extravagance," and 16 a Chaplin comedy, " Behind the Screen " ? -1 " Extravagance "'is said to be me of the >' I most powerful motion picture dramas of •* : the season, and that Madame Petrova ha« 'f' thrown all of her ■wonderful dramatic'"l power into this production. The result i« "j I that the camera has recorded something ld seldom seen in motion pictures— '■ woman's soul telling a great truth, id )r STRAND THEATRE. Olive Thomas, the Triangle actress, who has made such a remarkable success of moving picture work, will reappear at the Strand Theatie to-day in her latest sue 3 _ cess. "Betty Takes a Hand." An emusj ing light comedy with an involved plot, a it is said to display Olive Thomas's charms j_ in a variety of costumes, and to cause ' some merriment by a series of various I happenings. It is claimed that the story d 1 is told with a dash and spirit which make '* up for sterner qualities, and help the pic ture to a pleasing end, wherein the rich man marries the poor girl, and their road ■s to happiness is paved with a £10,000 »- cheque. In addition to " Betty Takes a i- Hand," a specially interesting 'local film, 4. "Auckland from the Skies," will he a shown. Included in the picture are views d of the Aviation School at Kohiraarama, s Flying school grounds, seaplane sheds, e workshops, and pupils' camp; principals, i- pupils, and staff now on active service a with tho Royal Flying Corps; construek Hon shed and engineers' workshop; tuning '. up a 90-h.p. Curtiss engine; finishing off t and launching a seaplane; recreation at , the school; aquaplaning; pupils receiv--0 mg flight instruction ; a pupil undertaking test flights for his pilot's certificate. There will also be views of the suburbs .1 taken from the air.