ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 415, 26 January 1909, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

■ g DIANA OF DOBSON'S. " Diana of Dobson's " pursued her brilliant . meteoric career as a gay lady of fashion bei fore a crowded theatre last night, and charmed her audience 'right through from the defiant scene in the cheap little dormitory to the end of the tangled web on the Thames Embankment. This evening Miss Bruue will ' enter upon the five final performances of the season which is proving such a remarkable success. As "Sunday" is to be presented i this'evening and two following nights, and for the two farewell performances that most charming of all love stones " Romeo and Juliet" will be revived, the season promises to keep up the standard already established. It is an accepted fact thit Miss Bruno's impersonation of "Sunday" is her most popular, and as, these five nights will probably be her last appearances m Wellington prior to her ,- > return to the States, all her admirers will be lt sure to give this clever actiess a hearty sendoff,, BURNS-JOHNSON PICTURES. " The second•>week of 'the Burns-Johnson i "" kinematograph opened with undiminished success last evening. During the past week hundreds have watched the pictures , each evening, and the concluding six nights of the season bid fair to be quite as successful. It us. an excellent .picture, giving a close view of every round, and no item is missed. This , j notable picture will be shown again to-night. - ' ' ROYAL PICTURES. ■■ For clearness of delineation it would be '< difficult to surpass the Royal Pctures, and the subjects are all of an intensely interesting aature. This week's programme has achieved more than usual popularity, and there was t another packed' house last evening. The change takes place^to-morrow. s '■><' > , ,!i V WONDERS OF RADIUM. ' 'About 200 people assembled last evening in the New Century Hall, to hear Mr. Clement Wragge explain some of the peculiar properties of radium. _ The lecture was all , the more satisfying in that those who attended were able to see for themselves'and i° , handle actual samples of the rare metal. In " one small tube were grams of a radium salt, - , and another specimen tube was handed round | containing radium mixed with zinc sulphide. , A number of remarkable lantern slides were ' exhibited, and while the hall was dark j the audience'were permitted to view an unstable disintegrating particle of radium, giving out alpha rays. Although quite invisible to the naked eye, and sending out rays at the rate j'of 15,000 miles per second, s Mr. Wragge dei clared that the light rays would continue to be given forth for 5000 years. As it was 1; impossible to 1 exhibit the specimens to i an unlimited audience, a good many were r&i j fused admission, and, m order that none } might be disappointed, Mr. Wragge dei cided to repeat the lecture to-night in the \ fame place. CONCERT AND DANCE. 'A 1 concert and dance were held in the Plimimerton Schoolroom on Anniversary night/ over one hundred people being present. Mr. i John Thomson, of the Geological Survey, •made a capable and' humorous chairman. I The items contributed were much enjoyed, i encores being the order of the evening. i > Messrs, Tinney, Hicks, Nathan Smythe, Cliff / Smythe, Nutt Wise, Down, and Misses j'iHubner and Hodder contributed items.' Miss iM&anstad acted as accompanist, while Mr. A. lAamett amused the audience with some very humorous gramaphone .selections. After the lengthy piogramme had come to an end, i abc\ut twenty couples took 1 the floor for dancing. , OJHE MALLINSONS. Conicert-goers will be afforded an opportunity 1 ' of hearing two fine artists in the Mal- . c linsons\at the Town Hall (Concert Chamber), on Frul'ay next. Wellington music-lovers have not for.gotten the wonderful recitals given here by sthese artists some two months 'ago ' The Mallmsons have beeni described as the legitimate successors of the Henschels. The ' value of these recitals is stated to be great. It is worth many singing lessons to hear Mrs Mallmson's delightful vocalisation,'and Mr. Mallmson's accompaniment iB an object-lesson. Interest is added to the recital by the fact that Mr. John Pronse will interpret a number of Mr. Mallmson's songs. The songs tdbe sung by Mr. Prouse have never before boen heard in New Zealand. The box plan is at the Dresden. NAVY LEAGUE LECTURE. The public is reminded of 'the lecture, to be delivered at the Town Hall this evening, under the auspices of the Navy League, by Lieut. Knox (late R N.), entitled "The British Navy, and Foreign Warships and Dockyards " 'Mr Horace Hurjt, 'Mus. Baa, will contribute items on the grand organ. THE BLAND HOLT COMPANY. At the Opera House on Monday next Mr. Bland Holt will commence a short farewell season of twelve nights, with a popular ler \ival of the successful Druryj Lane play, "The White Heather." It was on account ' of the repeated inquiries for this drama that • Mr. Holt sent specially to Australia for the i scenery to produce it on his return visits, , which he did most successfully, both in Dun- [ cdm and Chnstchurch. In the former city i jt ran for, the last four nights of a six weeks' ' eeason to enormous houses, and on Saturday ■ last concluded a six nights' run, taxing the holding capacity of the Chnstchurch theatre to its utmost. The box plan will be on view Bt Holhday's on Thursday morning. 1 Wh-th's Circus commences a tour of New , Bcaland at Dunedin on Saturday. The i "star',' addition to the menagerie is a very Ine giraffe. (