ENTERTAINMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7870, 4 August 1911, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

THEATRE ROYAL. This week a very good' programme is provided at the Theatre Royal and patrons recognise this by heartily applauding tho various artists. Next Monday, it is announced, tho Potter Hartwell trio will make their first appearance in New* Zealand. The act these performers will introduce is said to be one of the most expensive vaudeville acts yet imported, but tho management intimate that they will only charge tho usual price for admission. THE NEW THEATRE. Large crowds visited the New Theatre yesterday, and in the evening the hall was crowded in all parts. There will be a complete change of programme today, when among tho pictures to bo shown will bo “The Little Drudge," ‘‘A Tough Tenderfoot," “Cured," “San Guilauo and Salt Works," and “Novice Handicap Sculling Race, Parramatta." The Coronation Pictures will be repeated for three moro days.

THE SCARLET TROUBADOURS. A largo audience greeted the Scarlet Troubadours at the Opera House last evening, when every item on a long and diversified programme met with warm approval. The entertainment is refreshingly novel and of a high standard throughout. The songs are pretty and well-rendered, the choruses crisp and tuneful, and tho humour, with which tho performance is freely interspersed, briglit, clean and very acceptable. To-night will be the last occasion on which tho Troubadours will appear in Wellington, and those who have not already made the acquaintance of these pleasing and amusing people should take advantage of the opportunity. SUNDAY CONCERT.

Tho Wellington Professional Orchestra will give the fifth of the present season of Sunday concerts at the Town Hall on Sunday next. - Under the conductorship of Mr Herbert Bloy the orchestra will perform a programme of the highest standard. Tho full programme, which will include vocal and instrumental solos, will bo published in Saturday's issue of the “Times."

HIS TvrA.TKSTY'S PICTURES. His Majesty's Theatre was numerously attended last evening, when the usual biweekly change of programme was screened by Pullers’ Pictures. The new set of films bore evidence of judicious selection, and a high standard of merit was maintained throughout the bill. An item of a popular type was "German Officers Training." Some extraordinary feats of horsemanship are reproduced which compelled enthusiasm. A delightful group of mountain cascades are shown in "Waterfalls of Tivoli." “Silver Threads Among the Gold" is a pictured version of Hants’s cver-to-be-remembered song. There is abundant sensationalism in "Lighthouse Keeper's Girl,” a drama of the sea. In “Warwick Chronicle" topical European events are collected in a neat budget which includes polo sports, the coaching''Marathon, the giant Olympic (15,000 tons) starting on her first voyage, the Coronation stands in London and other events. The manufacturing wonders of England aro placed in condensed form in “Home of British Industry," which includes cotton mills, cloth works, a naval arsenal, and the launching of a liner. A laughable comedy, “Josh and Cindy’s Wedding Trip,” is a skit on American rural guilelesaness, and the generosity of a magistrate. “Strike Leader" is a drama of life among the Labour classes. The strike leader’s action in ordering a strike results in the death of his own child. "Teddy's Three Duels" is a grotesque comedy on continental lines, which compels laughter. A number of other acceptable items and the “Coronation of King George V.” complete the series. The programme will be 4 repeated this evening, and a matinee will be given to-morrow.

NICOLA.

Nicola opens to-lnorrow evening at the Opera House. His stage mechanics, property men, and assistants will arrive this afternoon to prepare the different illusions. Apart from his eight mystery: specialists Nicola brings with him a compact vaudeville company, including “Nadolny," described os ‘'the greatest of all comedy jugglers"; Misses Whipple and Adams, "America's refined singing and dancing dno"; Miss Marguerite Sutton, "the peerless hypnotic and psychic marvel"; and a capable hand of musicians. The whole, according to contemporaries, forms one of the strongest attractions at present touring the Dominion. The box plan is at the Dresden. Early door tickets are now on sale at Christeson's.