ENTERTAINMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9648, 1 May 1917, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS

HIS MAJESTY’S. Another good programme was presented at Mis Majesty’s Theatre when a, large audience assembledrand was quite enthusiastic m regard to many of the items. Owing to the late arrival of several artists some novelties . winch had been announced could not be included in the bill of fare, but the fresh faces will be seen to-night. These include the Cavanna Duo, who are reported as, providing a rare melange of comedy, raelodv and dancing. Another novels? will be an act furnished by Celere a Trench comedian, who is said to bejiarticulaily piquant in some clever pantomime work. The Three Paulastos will also reappear in a new acrobaap diversion. S night’s performers included Minerva and Grace, the aerial gymnasts; George Wheeler, the musical tramp, Tred" Arthur. Lieut. Gordon, the Tiny Tote, Huntley Spencer, Walter Emerson, and Gwen Haste. The new- programme to be put on. to-night will be continued throughout the week. EVERYBODY'S. The iirogramme which, failed, to oome to hand on Saturday will be shown in its entirety to-day. The chief dramatic attraction Will be William Hart in an immensely powerful Triangle play called. "Truthful Tulliver. In this picture Hart is seen in quite a new role—that of editor of a small country newspaper. His methods of bringing truth into fashion in a community which has long been strange to this virtue provide much splendid entertainment along quite novel lines. The thousands of followers of Billie Burke, who, according to the mana£reme*it. have been making the telephone at the above theatre work overi time during the last two days, arc hereby assured that ' Tangled Threads, tic new instalment, has now come to hand. THE KING’S. A phobo-dramatie triumph by tie Greater Vitagraph Company with beautiful Peggy H viand as star is The Encmv." ‘ Charles Kent plays the lole of a depraved saloon outcast sleeping in a kennel His upward fight against the habits that threaten to master him provides a sterling lesson with which is interwoven a strong and glorious story, with plenty of scope for the portrayal of the most varied and intense emotions. Charles Chaplin and the beautiful blonde Edna Purviarice cause much laughter each evening in the, Mutual-Ghaplm comedy "The Vagabond/' Chaplin las the part of a wandering musician. The Topical Review is particularly interestmß‘ EMPRESS.

''Frou Frou” was a sensational success of the Parisian stage, and its film , verging hr the World Film Corporation, showing at The Empress to-day, is a splendid success. The outstanding feature of the production is the acting of Alice Brady and Gerda Holmes as the

two sisters, ono a frivolous butterfly whom wifehood and motherhood cannot alter, and the other a righteous but ten; derhearted slave to duty. The story is full of strongly emotional scenes, and Alice Brady is supremely good in the delineation of the agony yt the wilful girl wife whose wrong-doing causes much, irreparable mischief to those she loves. Special mention must Jjo made of tho acting of Bay Carrar, as George, tho charming child of Fron Frou and her elderly husband. He is perfect and r.o less. Charles Chaplin in "The Vagabond,” is causing much laughter at all sessions- , WHERE ARB MY CHILDREN? This sensational film, which caused much controversy in Australia, is to be screened at tho King’s Theatre for a season, two sessions daily, commencing at the matinee on Saturday next, under tho direction of Mr E. J. Carroll. .The story is of a prominent lawyer and his wife, a social butterfly. He is most disappointed because big wife is childless. A child of tho housekeeper is seduced by a guest of the house, and dies as tho result of an illegal opera, tion. Pursuing his duty with all tho rigour of tho law behind him, the lawyer secures a heavy penalty for the doctor who gave his services, and when the cash books comp into his hands he learns with horror the reason why the whole coterie of the society women he knows, his wife, included, are without children. The drama abounds with incidents of the most direct and positive human appeal. this being especially so in the big final scenes, where the couple are shown, now aged, surrounded! by the visions of what might have been. The earlier portions of the film, too. are described as amazing in their strength and reality. There is the bright and winsome little girl, fresh from .school, with her life so blighted and ruined by a basa libertine that death is perhaps the best thing that could have befallen her, and following this is the heartfelt grief of the mother, grippingly portrayed, enhanced in its effect by the music of the orchestra, and given still further expression by the vccal strains of "Nearer, My God, to Thee," delivered from a recess in the building. Children under the ago of eighteen will not be admitted. Infants under seven, accompanied by parents, free. The box plan opens at the Bristol to-morrow. THE CROWN THEATRE.

The chief attraction at the Crown Theatre this week is the “Velvet Paw” which drew a big crowd on Saturday nightl Tlie picture show e up certain corrupt phases of political, life in America is a very realistic style. The sombre part of the picture is frequently relieved by glimpses of America's beantl-. ful buildings, and the, pleasures which wealth provides. The supporting films are also popular, and were well received by the audience last night. A big attraction is announced for Wednesday,. May. Sth, when the much talked of picture. "Where are my Children?” it to be ehown at the Crown..