ENTERTAINMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7021, 8 January 1910, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

■ OPERA HOUSE. "Sherlock Holmes” was repeated by Mr Williamson's Dramatic Company before < a large audience at tho Opera House last evening. THE FLAG LIEUTENANT.” To-night the company will play the successful naval comedy "The Flag Lieutenant.” This Jplay was a big success during the last IsDndon season, where it ran for over 500 nights. _ “The Flag Lieutenant” brims over with vitality, colour and epigram. Sconically it is said to be the best thing that has ever been put on tho stage. The admiral’s cabin on the 11.M.5. Royal Edward, with the distant lights of Malta twinkling through tho purple night, and the soft music of tho band playing for the young people’s dance, the laughing, chaffing lads, the sturdier but still rollicking superior officers, form a setting to tho opening of the play which strikes at once a note of freshness, actuality and charm. Then there is the picture _ of the quarter deck with all tine sailors

and marines at work—with the big gun standing out, with bugles blowing and barges . full, of' ladies coming alongside. “The Flag Lieutenant” will be played for four nights, and for the - last ■ three nights .of ..tine season (Thursday^Friday and .Saturday next) ‘‘The Silver King” will bo revived, with G. S. Titheradge as Wilfred Denver, his original character.' '■ THEATRE ROYAL. The vaudeville programme now- being staged by the Messrs Fuller at the Theatre Royal seems to please all classes of the community who fav-our entertainment pf this sort. It is difficult to differentiae as to the values of the programme numbers, for the large audience present distributed its indications of approval very evenly. But it could not bo denied that the two Newcastle coalminers,- Charles Heath and Joseph [Lamb, found favour with the audience TO soon as they appeared. Their voices, tenor and baritone, are admirable in quality. They sang a duet that -was extremely well received. But that was only a bit of the programme. Verne and Armstrong went through their turns admirably and wore loudly, applauded, as, indeed, were all the other members of the: company. WEST'S PICTURES. There was another large attendance at the Town Hall last night to witaeas West's Pictures. In response to popular request a scries of films descriptive of a visit to the London Zoo was shown. The pictures are a fine lot, and deserved the applause which greeted them. “Yachting at Cowes,” “The Hunchback," and “Surgical Operations” were the star items of a long and interesting programme. The present season closes tonight.