ENTERTAINMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6970, 9 November 1909, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA HOUSE. ANDERSON DRAMATIC COMPANY. The season of the Anderson Dramatic Company continues to run smoothly, good patronage being nightly bestowed on tho combination. They will appear to-night for the last time during the present season in “The Great World of London” —a piece which they were seen in great advantage in 'last evening. Owing to the holiday, the box plan will be at Abel's to-day. To-morrow evening there will he presented for the first time in. New Zealand Walter Melville's latest work, “The Female Swindler,” a play that has been most successful throughout England and America, and was recently produced at the King's Theatre, Melbourne. Beautiful new scenery will be shown, one par-tioula-rly fine scene being the roof tops, with the mechanical change to the garret. Miss May Granville will make her first appearance this season as Lu Valroy, tho female swindler. THEATRE gOTAL. The excellence of the pictures at the Theatre Royal induces tho notion that tho large audiences attending are tho result of public approval. The observer is _ led through little known lands to points of interest that emphasise the wonders of tho pictorial art and give him some idea of the beneficence of nature as distinct from his diurnal environment. It is certain that tho person living in the calm sequestered vale of common civic life is unable to witness the marvels of nature, and in this respect the tiny film is a friend which opens the whole world to the interested stay at home who cannot become a nomad. Tho range of subjects covered by tho rapid film is so wide- that all interests are ably catered for, the result being that the patron leaves tho darkened hall feeling that his special predilection has been catered for. Comedy, pathos, tho insistent in nature, tho great in dramatic art are all shown by a mechanical device that adds greatly to tho merriment of life and oil to its more sober moments, Tho busy people in France, who understand the inability of the masses to acquaint themselves with the marvels that are everywhere to be seen or heard in far lands, are responsible for wonders as readily seen in Wellington as in Berlin, Vienna or Paris. And those who eater for tho person in the dimmest distance as well as for those of the Boulevard des Italiens deserve the thanks of tho people who would not know except for Pathe. THE SHACKLETON PICTURES. Spencer’s Theatrescope Company is announced to commence a short season at the Town Hall next Saturday with animated pictures of Shackletcn’s dash for the pole. It is difficult to imagine a more thrilling subject. Lieutenant Shackleton is one of tho leading men of tho day, and Mr Spencer has shown enterprise in securing the right to exhibit throughout Australia’ and New Zealand views of the famous achievement of the Shackleton party. Late files show that large crowds in London witnessed these_ Antarctic cinematographs, which give a wonderfully accurate idea of the adventures of S’haekleton and his brave companions. It is t*> be expected that large Wellington audiences will see these pictures. Seats may now be reserved at the Dresden rooms. A dance is to he held in Fnllford’s Hall, Brooklyn, to-night. Mr J. Fraser will supply the music.