AMUSEMENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16538, 11 November 1915, Page 7

AMUSEMENTS

PRINCESS THEATRE, c Bright, snappy vaudeville of a plentifu i variety is always in demand. The Fullei management is filling the requirement, anc the public is responding with appropriate I recognition. Merriment, music, and amaz ing balancing • ieats are characteristics oi an acceptable bill of fare this week., Th< . dexterity of " Balancing Stevens" and the sparkling wit with which ho li sauces' 1 his turn are a perennial pleasure. Tho dancing of the dainty, Rowley and Tainton, the * yodelling of Ted Russell, the harmonious > of tenor voice and harp provided by Shea and Carter, the singing ol the Leroy Sisters and Eugene Boland, and the whimsicalities of Ernest Pitcher comprise an altogether satisfying entertainment, The programme will be repeated this evening. The Trunk Mysteht. Herbert Brooks, an English entertainer of some note, 1 has been engaged by Messrs ' Fuller to appear at The Princess Theatre on Monday evening. This performer, who styles himself "The King of Entertainers," will carry out a series of what are said to be startling demonstrations, which wind up with his mysterious disappearance in a box and .reappearance in a very brief interval. Btooks is also reported to be a master bf card manipulation, and his whole performance is said to bo enlivened by a breezy undercurrent of genuine wit. _ This artist's season will extend for six nights only, and he will be supported by a galaxy of vaudeville talent. \ HAYWARD'S PICTURES. The big picture at the Octagon Theatre this week is well supported by a variety of excellent films._ Tjiese include illustrations of scenes and industries in Scotland and a trip down the River Clyde past its worldfamed ship-building yards. There is also a Gaumont Graphic, and an amusing comedy entitled "When Wifie Sleeps." The main picture, " When It Strikes Home," is a very realistic drama, graced by the presence of actors and actresses of front rank. The programme will be repeated to-day. QUEEN'S THEATRE. Good audiences were present at the Queen's Theatre yesterday and last evening, when the fifth episode of " The Million Dollar Mystery: At the Bottom of the Sea,", and the supporting pictures were shown for the last time. "Women and Wine." A powerful drama of Parisian life, 1 eptitled "Women and Wine," will form the main attraction in the new programme today. The production is by the oelebrated World Film, Corporation, and is in five parts. It will be remembered by many as being staged with success by the late Bland Holt some years ago. The story tells of) Richard Seymour, who inherits a fortune.'Marcelle, an artist's model>, fascinates the; young man, and persuades him to visit Paris, and there, at the famous Moulin Rouge, proceeds to 6how him life—fyer life —the life that, begins at midnight arid disappears with the coming of day. Sey.' mour is cheated ,pf all his money, and cast off by the adventuress,: and lives in poverty Subsequently there is a.-terrible duel between Marcelle and a woman of tho demimondes; named La Qolombe. .The fight ends fatally, and Sejfmour is accused of the crime. By the strenuous efforts of his father and his sweetheart, remained loyal to him, he is saved, alnd he finds happiness. The settings in Paris and New York are said to be brilliant, tod the: mid:night dance at 'the Moulin Rouge provides what is claimed to be one of. the most remarkable scenes in motion picture" annals. Other pictures will be " Studies* in day,"(Lubin cartoons) and the Pathe Gazette, i PL&ZA THEATRE. Charlie Chaplin, in his latest comedy, "Tho Bank," attracted another full and appreciative attendance at the Plaza .last evening. Following tho usual praotice, this film will be presented for the remainder of this week. All the supporting films; however, will be to-day replaced by the following new subjects:—" Destiny's - : Trump Card" (drama), "Caesar's Wife" (comedy),; " Gilded Cage", (drama), and " The French Advance on the Rhine " (war tojpical). In addition to this full programme, the first instalment of the serial drama "Lucille Love" will be shown at all sessions to-day and to-morrow only. All the. succeeding! ,episodes of this mystery draip&. 'will ,be l shown on Thursdays and Fridays for fifteen weeks, which will complete the film storjsr. ! . KING' EDWARD THEATRE.' ;; There was a good attendance at the King Edward Theatre last night to witness the final screening of the programme presented since Monday. The principal attraction in the new programme to be presented to-day will be "The Greater Strength," a two--part "Flying A." drama. It is a story,"' with fino scenic settings, of mining camp life in the West. David Ba'rr, a young doctor of unusual physical strength, during a wrestling bout, accidentally cripples a young friend, arid takes a vaw that he will never again use his phenomenal strength except to save life. He goes West, and honourably cairying out, under unusual circumstances, his vow—by saving a -child's life, —he earns the love of and marries a schoolmistress. The other pictures''-shown are " Esrypt." a coloured" Gaumorif scenic ; "They Loved Him' So " (comedy), "Father Said He'd Fix It" (Lubin comic), A Pair of Stars." (York comio), arid the Australian Gazette. GRAND THEATRE.

The management of the Grapd Picture Palace has b'een fortunate enough to secure a very choice selection of coloured films for screening to-day in , connection with the usual changc of programme. Heading the list will be a _ particularly gorgeous Pathftcolour dramatic productiori entitled " The Vengeance of Lucinius." A charrnfng child study in Gaumont colouring is " The Little Mother." "Maud, the Nut" is a typical breezy Pathe-eoloured French comedy. " French Army Horses" arid "Life in Burmah ' are two beautiful ooloured subjects, full of interest. The French drama. "Victory or Death," a 3000 ft drama, ■ will complete an interesting" and entertaining programme. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. The public -will ha've access to Dunedin's up-to-date new pjcture theatre ("Everybody's ") this evening at 7 o'clock, when a fine programme befitting the occasion and the enterprise of the promoters will grace the new screen. The chief film will be a production entitlde "The Dollar Mark." the gripping story of which reels off in five interesting acts. The picture has -won great favour wherever it has been presented. The acting and setting of the theme, which is replete with entertaining situations that develop and fascinato as they proceed, are said to be excellent. The programme should command good patronage.