AMUSEMENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13835, 23 February 1907, Page 10

AMUSEMENTS.

, HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. There was a very satisfactory attenJanea at His Majesty's ThentTO last evening, when West's Pictures and the Brcsdians presented this week's programme for the last time. This afternoon and evening a change of programme is to be put 011, and quit® a treat is promised. One of the pictures is entitled: "A Romance of the Railway," and is said t<j bo tho longest film ever shown. It was taken. 011 tho London and Norih-Western railway, England, and shows every phase of railway enterprise from tho making of the line, the working of the signals, to the building locomotives, coaohcs, and saloons. The pictures also show the working of the railway between/ London, Rugby, Crewe, Preston, and Carlisle, racing the Scotch and Irish mails, picking up mail bag 3 and taking in water whilst running at 80 miles an hour, pther series to bo shown are H.M. the King at Athens, Tha Stag Hunt, Living "Sydney, the Fijian Firowalkers, Fan and War Dancers at tho Exhibition, etc.

IfACILVHOX. DRAMATIC COMPANY. Tho last performance of " Tlio Yellow Peril" attracted another large and en* thusiaslio audience to the Princess Tliwitro Inst evening. To-night, which will bo tho last of Messrs MaoMahon's all too brief season! in Dunedin (which is necessitate:! by other engagement), will be devoted to tho first andl only production. here of ono of the most recent London Adelphic successes, "The Executioner's Daughter," by the popular playwright E, Hill Mitchelson. This interesting drama is at the 1 present moment enjoying a* great vogue both in England and America, Tho thema is novel anil distinctly original being founded upon an actual and remarkablo historical period in tlio social life of Paris. It deals with the dual life of one M. Rooho who, as a dignified and highly esteemed; Citizen of Paris, beloved of his family and surrounded by tToops of friends, in reality pursues the avocation of public exccutionor or Franoe. " The sccnes and episodes ar» dramatic to a degree" (sa'ys the Auckland Herald), " and after the gruesome secret haa been ic\ealed to the audience m n stirring prologue, thero is something ineffably pathetic in the story, and this is magnificently maintained throughout by the admirable acting who, as a dignified and highly-esteemed company, who, moreover, never for a moment allow it to grow wearisome, and who carry the dramatic incidents, with which it fairly bristles, from excitement to excitement until the curtain finally falls upon ono of tho most powerfully worked-out stage stories ono has witnessed for a long time." To-night's production will be upon tho usual scale of scenio completeness for wliich the management is noted, the slago tableaus including Paris by Day the " Green Cloth " Gambling Den, and the Burning of the Telegraph Office at Rouen. Tho company will open for a foui« nights season at Invercargill on Monday next. ALHASIBBA THEATRE. A very largo audienco witnessed tho final production of "Undo Tom's Cabin" at the Alhambra Theatre last night by the TaylorCarrington Dramatic Company. To-night the company stage tho Irish play "Homo Rule" for the first time in Dunedin. " Home Kule"' is an Irish drama of the Boucicault typo, and serves for the purpose of introducing some very beautiful scenery that has been, specially painted ior this production'. A' Wellington paper says:—"An entirely new Irish drama bearing the striking -title ' Home Rule' was presented at the Opera House last night, and was received by a crowded audience with great enthusiasm. The TaylorCarrington management have certainly gone to groat expense in mounting this play, the scenio effects being really beautiful, Mr Charlie Taylor as 'Willie Reilly, tho gossoon, kept tho vast audionce in roars of laughter whenever bo was on. the stage."

BROUGH-FLEMMING COMPANY. Playgoers who appreciate the higher forms of dramatio art will welcome -with pleasure the dateimination o£ Mr. Herbert JTlcmming to_ keep tho Brough-Flemming Company in existence for an indefinite period. No company did luoro for Iho uplifting of tho Australian stage than_that headed by the late Robert Brough and his gifted wife, and no' actor-manager of to-day w«s missed uloro than ho was when the combination lie had organised, trained, and taught finally broke up in 1903. Thanks to him, and Mr Fle'mroing also, tho company associated with liim has been invested with a considerable share of the atmosphere that was always one oE the older combination's most treasured assets. That in tirao to come the present combination will assume an individuality ot its own i» inevitable. Mr Flemming is too thorough an artist and too experienced an actor not to impress his own talent upon thoso under his direction. But the change will be so imperceptible that on!y those who see the company at intervals of years will note any difference. Tho company will inaugurate their Dunedin season at the Princess Theatre on Monday night by producing "Dr Wake's Patient" here lor tho first lime. The box plans ore open at tho Dresden. TSCHAIKCWSKY'S 1812. Tho "1812" is the greatest of the Russian composer 'I'schaikowaky, and is descriptivo of tho invasion of _ Russia by Kapoleon I, which took place in the year " 1512." Tho Dunedin Philharmonic Society is giving a popular concert on march 15 prior to its visit to' the Exhibition,' and as it intehds performing this work there, it is going to give tho Dunedin public an opportunity of hearing it. The society performed this work last September, and numerous requests have been received asking the society to repeat it. Arrangements have been made so that the society can perform this work in l its entirety, and tho public can look forward to a musical treat. The prograimno will include sever* l other pleasing items.