ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 417, 28 January 1909, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS.

- .'-, ■". "SUNDAY." '" '■'•■;. ■ Miss Tittell Brune and tho very. excellent J company in support gave another good performance of "Sunday" to a large audience last evening. This delightful play will be staged for tho last time this evening.' To-morrow and Saturday evening'a special production qf Shakespoare's lovo story, "Romeo, and Juliet," is to form the attraction for the two farewell nights of Miss Bruno's sea-: son, when this clever young actress will make her re-appearance as Juliet, a character in which she has met with great praise. A strong cast has been arranged for this production, including Mr. Thomas Kingston as Romeo, Mr. Loring Pernio: as . Mercuho,,, and . Mrs. Robert Brough asLady Capulet. These two appearances will probably bo Miss Bruno's farewell to Wellington, as a. re-engagement in America is under consideration at an early date. Box plans are rapidly filling, thorefore it would be.advisable for'intending patrons to make early application at the Dresden. BURNS-JOHNSON PICTURES. The opportunities for-witnessing, in, a comfortable seat in the theatre, the great BurnsJohnson battle refought, are rapidly being narrowed down. ■ The last nights of the pictures at the Theatre-Royal, sire now announced,' and the public should not fail. to see them. , Tho' audience-n± the Theatre Royal is much better off, as spectators of the. fight, than were the thousands-which fringed the outskirts o£ the, vast crowd at the Stadium in- Sydney., , They get a better view than many of those who actually witnessed the fight. < HIS MAJESTY'S.THEATRE. ' That, popular favour, has'not' deserted the Royal Pictures was proved by, the crowded "house" which-patronised last nighf s chango programme at His Majesty's .Theatre. -The exhibition ,was wall worthy of patronage, and" demonstrated the fact that the. management of this kineniatograph sluw ,khpw how: to cater : for varied tastes.. -Lovers of rare scenery were treated' to; one-of the most/beautiful, classes of ■: scenic-■..gems-r-waterfalls. The watorfalls | shown"' were - not 'of the order of Niagara and [-.Victoria— majestic and 7 somewhat awesome—but | charging ?and typical of tho different lands in which . they- were .situaied. There were the •cascades of England, as'depicted in the falls.of Aljrsgarth in Yorkshire,. Muick, near Balmoral, arid the falls of Clyde, the; weird scenery of Norway, illustrated in tho falls of Honefos, and, most beautiful of all,- the tropical cascades of Tequendemba in Soiuth America. The last-named was star of the series of gems —the 'spray desceading over the black rocks j looking like a. snowy mantis, falling from the shoulders of a dark giant Por ,those" not entranced by scenciry thcre;,was a variety; of. other subjects from which to choose. A pretty tale .was told in "Roverfs Christmas"—how a dog,; perceiving that for the children of ; "a-poverty-stricken-family,, Christmas must lose' its great charm because of tho absence of gifts, went out and gathered from shop-windows a miscellaneous colleotion: of toys, which he carried to the children's' home.- "Tho Runaway Kids" described tho good itime which two little girls conWved to have on the contents'of a money-bor. /Burglary ; Up-to-Date" and "Polka on the Brain" were two of the best of the comic .pictures,- ;,The programme ivillbe repeated, to-nisht. . Y l '. ;■-.-.'.' /' THE MALLINSONS." There ,is but:" little need to remind musiclovers of-the ermg-rcoital.to be given by' Mr. and Mrs. Albert llallinson at the Town Hall (Conoert Chambar), to-night.; The eminent composerandhis siited wife will rehdera number of ~the former's Yboautiful songs; 'and . Mr. John. Prbuse will' sing, amongst; other new songs, the same cotuposer's " Over the' Western "Sea," "■ Let.:.Them--Not'Vanish," "We Sway Along";(a- train song), and "The Cavaliers' ' Song.".; Speaking of the■:Mallinson-• songs,-the Melbourne. "Age", says:—"Songs like ~'Eloanore,'., 'The Mcssaga and the Song,' .'Slow, •Horses,, Slow,' 'Porar by the Clock,' and 'Gloriaha,' rcaoh 'a .standard that few.com-, ; : posers,-;ofwhatevor nationality, ever at,tained._ We regard it as quito within the lines ,'of rational to. assert that no songs ;have ; been writton wherein, poet, singer, and .accompanist are, individually and collectively so well treated. Mr." Mallinson is.responsible for. the choice of the poesy; but in this, the least telling instance 'of -his : ,'judgment—selecting jwords ■ that aro worth; sottine; to music—he will challenge comparison .with; the finest song composers of British or any other breed." '■ The .'programme for,, to-morrow evening's recital is an extremely -varied one. • .The box pjan is" open at .the Dresden. ' ; - V.; /'-.;, Y... */,' " '.———' V '■•''' ; MR./WRAGGE'S:FAREWELL LECTURE.. : ';' "A Flying Trip Ronnd the.World" was the title of a farewell illustrated lecture delivered Dy Mr. Clement Wragge in the Concert Chamber- at the Town Hall,, last; night, beforo a large audience.',:. llr. Wragge conducted those present', through ■ many.-' lands, - the - principal sights of. which he explained in his oivn style. So/interesting' was" the series, as a whole, that. it; would bo,diffiioult to sort.out "thoviews of one more than those "of another. During the course' of' his remarks, Mr. Wragge stated that the aggregate of his different tours .was 200,000 miles. His motto was: "The moro' one .travels' the more one learns." He expects to. .again visit Wellington about tho middle of. May.- .-In the meantime, he Virill. .deliver lectures in various northern towns.. ..;'■ '":.. //-.. 'BLAND, HOLT'S; season.; , : .,; 7 Mr.': Bland Holt's farewell .season - will be inaugurated- on Monday cvoning' next at .the Opera House, when tho most popular of all Drury Lane dramas will'be staged.. "The White; Heather " has given the scenic artist (Mr. John Brunton) heaps of; opportunities to show his ! talents, which'he has not been slow in .taking advantage of, and' all tho principals are seen at their.best' in -their, respective;parts; Mr. Holt will again, appear as the, aotor-manager, Edgar, Trefusisj ,'lus rehearsal'of/the. famous; "Lady Godiva"' burlesque being most' amusing. .Mrs. Holt will- also' make her re-appear-aucfl as Lady Janet Maolintock, who in the last scene—the fancy dress ball given by the Duchess of Devonshire—oomes on'-. as ; Queen Elizabeth, in full coronation robes. Thß box plan'is nbw pp«n at Holliday/s.