ENTERTAINMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17268, 18 September 1919, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS.

'" OPERA HOUSE.

* •■' this' wesik's programme at the- Opera House provides a novel entertainment. A ; revue i's produced "by the Bert la Blanc Travesty Star*. DAPHNE KNIGHT'S PUPILS. The pupils of Miss Daphne Knight will ■ give their annual dance recital, ent.tied •' Gwenwyn of the Lonely Tower, at His Majestv's Theatre this evening. This is a fanciful story in dance .ami dialogue in beautiful settings. Another item is • Through the War to Peace." compns ng a series of dances and tableaux, pallets, •md eplendd scenery. There _ will be a full oichestra under the direction of Mrs. ; A. C. Pnwson. The recital and dance will he produced to-morrrrw evoninc and on Saturday evening, and on Saturday afternoon there will be a matinee performance. EMJSRY BROTHERS' CIRCUS. Novel attractions are provided by Kmery Brothers at their circus, which is being held near the old city markets. General excellence characterise? the various turns. . Miss Le Roy, comedienne and dansfiuse. is- a popular artist, and clever feats are achieved by Professor .Morgan, cowboy and sharpshooter. Webb, horsetrainer, possesses animals that perform splendidly. Other performers are Soki. » clever Japanese equilibrist and acrobat, Mid two sagacious horses, "Sandow" and ••Starlight." The entertainment is con eluded with a sketch, "Fun in a Stockyard." it will bo repeated this evening. . TIVOLI THEATRE. A story of " Little Italy"— Italian quarter of New York, is told in "My Cousin," the attractive film screened at the Tivoli Theatre this week. Signoi Enrico Caruso, the '.famous maestro of the Metropolitan Opera House, appears in the dual roles of Cesare Cam li and Mario iommaso As the heroine, Miss Carolino White, also an opera dinger, is seen. Miss VVh'.te is a 80.-ton girl, and made hei debut a* an opera s nger in the San Carlos Opera at Nfcples, Italy, in 1910. She was engaged later by the Chicago Opera Company, where she created the role of Minnie in the "The Girl of the Golden West." ; The same season she was seen in the j leading roe* of a number of notable pro ductions. including "Cavalleria Rusticana'' and "Aida." As a star she shared the honours in the orgs meat on with Mary Garden, Tetrazzini, Margnerita Sylva, John M Cor mack, Dalmores, Renaud, Sammarcco, and other world-famous artists, and on the occasion of tie second performance of " The Girl of the Golden Weft" Caruso himself sang the leading tenor role. PRINCESS THEATRE. " Big Bill" Hart first made his name in a western role, and he has been playing cewboy parts ever since. However, in Branding Broadway," the excellent fi m which Is screened at the Princess Theatre this week, Hart forsakes the chapparal for "the dress su : and changes from the virile rider of the plains, to the immaculately clad Broadway lounger. When Hart, the simple cowboy, goes to New York for the first time in his life, he cannot understand it. He stands stockstill on the footpath and gs.pes at the huge bui dings. the bright lights, and the hurrying traffic: until he is rudely aroused by the laughter of a wondering crowd. However, the Westerner shows what he is made of. and his ultimate gaining of the respect and i admiration of the city folk, makes a pleasing con elusion to an excellent photoplay. STRAND THEATRE. There it, perhaps, no better known star on the revue stage than Gaby Deslys, the famous French actress, who is seen at the ! Strand -Theatre thin week in " Infatua- I ! ~ ,tion,"" a" dramatic photo-play. In Europe they call her " the heart-breaker," because » it is said she has more men following her ifasn any other star in the theatrical world. SSie is French, vivacious, and is the, possessor of such a remarkable personality, that it in itself is a (Treat acset, ■without taking into account her beauty. ,Gaby has be*o on the stage since childhood, and has almost entirely devoted her. i;alenta to revue. She has won much re- ; nown for the headgear that she wears, j while she sets fashions in Paris. Gaby ■was prevailed upon to make a p'cture—the - story of her own life of the stage, with - its dark patches, and of Par's, ana " In- .; falflation" was the result. Charlie Chap- -■'. lln,",ib& famous comedian, is seen in nts „ masterpiece, . Arms." Anita - Stewart will be seen on Saturday. NATIONAL THEATRE. .;„ Two pictures of special merit are screened at the National Theatre this - week. Jewel Carmen, the popular character actress, is GeeE in her latest success. " Lawless Love," a story of Montana. Actual danger is the true test of a man's courage, as Mi« Carmen discovers when her Broadway admirer is pitted against - an outlaw. She is first seen as the heroine of a stranded theatrical companv, and I later as the sweetheart of a former bandit ! who*© captive she had been in a den at ; '" Spider Gulch. The other film shows j Jane and Katherine Lee, iu their amusing - photo-play, " Doing Their Bit." ; '" : QUEEN'S THEATRE ~ A problem-play " The Price of a Good Time." is attracting large attendances at the Queen's Theatre thus week. The production is adapted from a story, entitled, " The Whim," by Marion Orth, and advances the argument that in the environ- . ment of tbo home rests the influences that predominate in a young person's future ■- life. To score this point the writer introduces two girls, one from a happy i *. home and the other from the most eordid , ~ surroundings. Her picture deals largely ; with the latter girl. " GLOBE THEATRE. The cult of spiritualism plays a large "' part in the dramat'c film, "The Voice of . Love," which has proved a popular attraction at the Glebe Theatre the week: and which will bo screened for the lfst time j to-day. The ta'e unfolds the sordid his- | tory of an unfortunate woman. Wirmifred | Greenwood, a talented Californian actress, It. seen to advantage in the role of that weird personage. " Madame Thebes." as ! she is known amone her e'rele of fanatics, or, as she calls herself, "' Marie Osmond." GRAND THEATRE. The rise and fall of a comic onera, principality in the surging Balkans form? the theme cf " His Roya! Highness," the excellent photo-play screened th's week at the Grand Theatre. A dying kingdom, I a stagnant people, intrigue sapping at the vitals of the nation, its enemies masting on its frontier, and no ruler tier.: to lead his people, were, the situations in which I Wallarya found itself in the itorv. i EVERYBODY THEATRE''Such a Little Pirato," the laughable photo-play, vrii) he screened at Even--body « Theatre for the last time to-dav, I and the usual weekly change of programme vr.V. be made tomorrow, when I Cessna Hayakawa will be seen. j LYRIC THEATRE. I Constance Talmadge's create; t screen • '•"'■••-"s ~s " iluud-iiuht. Paul." -hch is sciwiitMl at the head of this Wf-fk'- -,rogin Time at the I Mi.- Theatre. Miss Tyl madge is One of the most beautiful srrfen »"tre.-sos in Am<rra, and has been ,„■„'. i churned the most f-rinat ng ingenue in trie Western states ot Ameiica. PARNBLL PICTURES. ' ' Paulino Freder ck, on.» of America's ' m- st ta'eiited actressci. v. ill he seen at tin- Farnell Pictures this even iig in La Tosca," said to be her greatest success. I