AMUSEMENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16684, 3 May 1916, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS.

PRINCESS THEATRE. Tho Paulastoa, billed as " live waiters," provide a line turn at the Princess Theatre. The trio go through thoir tumbling and comedy work at a dashing pac<, and practically in complete silence. : ii.-y wero heartily applauded last nignt hu tiieir distinctive performance. May and June are a pair of youthful dancers who present " Dances of the Allies," and secured well merited applause for their efforts. Duranto, a musician whoso forte is the playing of Chinese instruments, is responsible for a cli'vcr turn, and Jessie and Stella Howard, tin Glockers, and the Scotch baliadist (Mirs Nan Taylor) and the rest of a numerous array of vaudeville talent ably assist in an enjoyable evening's entertainment. lIAYWARD'S PICTURES. "The Goose Girl," a story in which the heroine rises from following this humble occupation to siiare a throne, is the leading subject at the Octagon Theatre. The play is lavishly staged, and tho interpretation of the character of the heroine ;s in the capable hands of Marguerite Clark. Several other interesting pictures are included in the programme. QUEEN'S THEATRE. The programme with which the week has been init.ated at the Queen's Theatre is proving its attractiveness by drawing very good attendances. T here is plenty of variety about it, and it is such as to meet with the approval of all. The chief film is entitled A Garret in Bohemia," in which some interesting phases of life are pictured. The supporting pictures comprise humorous and instructive films. PLAZA THEATRE. The leading feature in this week's programme—Dan M'Grew," is attracting good attendances at the Plaza Theatre, the more so, as the drama deals with the incidents in frozen regions, concerning which the presence of the Aurora in those waters makes Dunrdin public specially sympathetic. The supporting pictures aro also good. KING EDWARD THEATRE. Miss Marguerne Clark has achieved a unique degree of success in "Tho Goose Girl," a picture that forms the staple of the entertainment at tho King Edward Theatre, and the story is full of interest. The supporting subjects are all up to a high standard, and the entertainment as a whole is thoroughly enjoyable. GRAND THEATRE. A large number of amusement seekers are naturally willing to refresh their recollections of Tittell Brune's clever acting while touring New Zealand recently, and therefore take the opportunity offered at the Grand Theatre to see the talented lady in " Iron Justice." Tho other features in the new programme furnish a pleasing variety to this week's attractions. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. "Hearts In Exile" at Everybody's Theatre presents attractions that are drawing good attendances at the various sessions. Tho comedy and scenic features are well chosen and highly appreciated, and will bo repeated to-day. EMPIRE THEATRE. Tho dramatic incidents unfolded by • the production of "The Incorruptible Crown" at the Empire Theatre, were enjoyed by large audiences yesterday. The comedy that followed gare pleasing variety to the programme, and the views of the devastation wrought at Ypres brought home the horrors of war in a realistic manner. ME FREDERIC COLEMAN. To-night, at the Burns Hall, Mr Frederic Coleman will again deliver his highly interesting lecture, " With the Allies in France and Flanders." Mr Coleman tells a story of absorbing interest. As one who has come as it were out of the very Valley of the Shadow, Mr Coleman brings his hearers into flesh and blood contact with the stern realities of the great war. In a sense he personifies the heroes of every arm and every rank, and with whom he had been privileged to fraternise, and of jwhom it is his pleasure and privilege to speak. Mr Coleman's style might perhap6 be not inaptly described as confidentially conversational. That whereof he speaks requires no rhetorical effects to make it thrilling. Mr Coleman has been described as "an entertainer, not a lecturer." Ho is gifted with a keen sense of humour, and tells many delightful stories of the brighter side of the life of tho British Tommy in trench and firing line. An outstanding feature of the lecture is the wonderful collection of pictures which Mr Coleman describes in graphic fashion. The box plans are available at the Bristol Piano Company's premises.

MR ASHMEAD BARTLETT. Mr E. Ashmead Bartlett, the famous war correspondent, who will lecture in the Burns Hall on Saturday evening, hoe had a unique experience. About the East he is particularly well versed. Ho was only 16 years of age when he first paid a visit to Abdul Hamid, the deposed Sultan of Turkey, with his father, and is now 34. His first smell of powder was during the Gr;eco-Turkish war in 1897, when he was made prisoner by tho Greeks. When the South African war broke out, he served with the British army. His next commission was in connection with the Russo-Japanese struggle, and he was all through the siege of Port Arthur with General Nogi's army, acting as eorres-' pondent of the London Times. Then lie (vent through the French campaign in Morocco in 1907. Afterwards he spent two years mixed up with a syndicate which sought to put Muli Hafid on the throne in place of Abdul Aziz. Next he engaged in the Spanish campaign in Morocco in 1900. and in 1910 he was with the Italians in Tripoli. During the period of the Balkan War he acted for the London Daily Telegraph. He was with the Turkish army when tho disastrous battle took place at Lule Burgas in 1912. In the following year he was with tho Serbian army in the war against the Bulgarians. The box plans open at the Bristol Piano Company's premises this morning.

DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL COSTUME RECITAL. Mrs Arthur Griffiths, assisted by her dramatic students, will give her fourteenth dramatic musiral and costume recital on May 30 in the Juras Hall. The programme will include the fairy soenes from " A Midsummer Night's Dream" (costumed), Dickens' sketches, Ind : an child poems (in native dress), dramatic recitals, and monologues, with music setting. Tho musical items will be rendered by favourite artistes.