ENTERTAINMENTS

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13750, 24 April 1918, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

KING'S THEATRE. Ethel Claytoa, in a role which suits her supremely, is the heroine of the powerful. World Film drama, "The Dormant Power,'' now being screened at the King's Theatre. With her are Montagu Love, Muriel Ostriclie, and Edward Langford. The story is worthy of such a powerful cast. The play opens on the Mexican border, but speedily changes to New York, where the interiors are of.lavish richness and beauty. Ethel Clayton has the opportunity of wearing some wonderful dresses. The acting of Muriel Ostriclie as the inventor's wife deserves particular notice. THEATRE ROYAL. For plain, every-day resourcefulness, the palin must be handed to the hero of " Richard the Brazen," the hero of the Greater Vitagraph drama now screening at the Theatre Royal. He saw a beautiful girl in an English chophouse, and from that meeting arose a chain of adventures of the most exciting kind. The scenes are laid both in England and America, and the settings arc of the most elaborate and costly description. Particular mention should be made of the two old men who portray so splendidly the partners who quarrel over a munitions contract.

"DADDY LONG LEGS."

Says a contemporary of the performance by the company to open at the Theatre Royal to-morrow (Thursday) night: "The acting was good throughout. Mr J. B. North, as "Jarvis Pendleton," was especially good, his work being restrained and artistic, particularly in the third act. As the irresponsible "Judy" Miss Mabel Barlove was altogether delightful and natural. She achieved a distinct triumph in the first act whcre v as the down-trodden little drudge of the orphanage, she rebels and tells the overbearing Visiting Committee and the outraged matron what she thinks of them all and their charity. The suepejs was continued right up to the la#t act, and it can safely lie said that there was not a dull moment in the play, each part being adequately handled. The box plan is at Paul's.