ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 569, 26 July 1909, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"LU.CKY DURHAM."

Tho farewell 'Wellington.;, performance of :"Lucky Durham," as played by. t,ho Meynell and Gunn Company, . was given on Saturday night before an audience. that expressed its appreciation of the play with loud and frequent applause. Among the audience wo.ro many members of the Pollard's Opera Company, which commences its season .'to-night. ..■■■'.'"; .!" . ■',■"":'

: ."/• ./. THEATRE ROYAL. '~.■',: ■■ The management, of Fullers'...Pictures have again demonstrated in their new programme, presented on Saturday night, that they have a. very, reliable" notion of what : will suit the popular taste.. '• Tho films were ■well selected, and' comprised a great amount of variety. One was a"particularly .interesting' and. in-' struc'tivo display of the habits of boos and the art of the beekeeper. -The travel pictures took thoandienco as. far away as the Arctic . Circle, where seal-hunting was ( witnessed,' and to Siinny Franco, where the scenery of ' picturesque Auvorgno, was. laid under contribution. The cincphone was songful and; spectacular'in "Eileen Alannah," as .suhguiv London by Mr.' Ernest Pike.'.'lsnJt' ;it Lovely to be in Love," sung by;Mr.\Yal-ter-Miller, and "Just a Little'. Rocking' Chair for You." A very popular, picture story was that which showed how a juvenile, with the : daring and resourcefulness of a • Sherlock ,, -Bolmes, effected'a sensational: res-, cue of his fa'therrro'm a brigands' cave; "Tho' Bogy ;Wbman" : was a fairy tale in colours. It was: wo'll acted, and. tho wonderful , happenings .with, which, it abounded .could'only 'have been engineered for; the machine \>y' means of great-ingenuity, These remarks are even more strikingly, true when, applied to the picture entitled "How Foolshead.Paid, his Debts."' The gentleman- of.-the'name-' part"turned out to be more of a' -magician : than.a fool, and the wonders that'ho'per-; •formed'with.a certain bag would-take quite, ia' , lot of explaining. ■-Laughter and amazement in all parts of .the houso accompanied tho portrayal of his surprising adventures. Of very'.' , different character was tho series" .of scenes from Sir .Walter , Scott's great :noyol, ,; '"Kenilworth.". Tho .-gallantry and , the /faithlessness of Leicester, the beauty and tho;'distress of ,Amy -Robsart, the royal .dig-,. ■nity.V'of .Elizabeth, and the- pomp, pathos/ 'and tragedy, of the famous ro'ma'nco all moved :-like/a> stately pageant df an era'when every 'action seems to have been picturesque.' Space 'does';not suffice to mention the other films,, though' it ■might very ■ well be contended• that. Eomei ■of,' thorn ' Were as meritorious 'as those ■' .which'-have; been' noticed -above:/ . The , - same •'programme will bo given to-night, v/..' .';

;.■,•:■ ;>='':ms'MAJE.sT-Y.'S'THEAT]RB ] ;, '■-. ■' Two' crowded, audiences - on' Saturday demonstrated the popularity'of tho Royal Pictures' at His Majesty's Theatre. The'matinee audience was largely, composed of children, who ; vigorously applauded, the hero in tho tabloid melodrama, and made the house ring with' their' laughter" when such- comic tures .as "Juggins's Motor Skates"'; wore shdwn. ; : .;■■.'■ •'-' ■■ ,;r : .; ; . ■.'■'■■■■:;:'''. • ■ \- : ' v ::' '.; ',=, ; " PLYMPIA- RINK. ■ '■' V. ■ \ -.On all -days .of'the..week, the Skating' Rink is a popular, place of amusement, but on 'Saturday, it appears to double its popularity. Last Saturday night it.was so crowded that ]thq: uninitiated onlooker .was lost in wonderment'of, tho skiir with'which the rinkers .-managed to' get' round without colliding. Patrons of. tho rink 'are no.w making preparation for the forthcoming masked costumo carnival;;'.; ,'■ .; .■■.;. •■.'.■■:■'-. : . ; y- x ■.■'..'; ': ■> / '"'S OtLARDi'S JUVENILE OPERA ;) ' ; V;v-.' "'^-COMPANY/'-;' '''• .'Judging by the number of 'seats''"''booked, .there- is- certain' to- boa" largo ,audienco at' tlio ,Opera -House •to-nigbt to welcomo tho return ;of Pollard's Juvenile . Opera Com■pahy. are- "Tlie\Pollards," as they, are-.faniiliarly-, 'call.cd, ,-very popular with playgoers:..but ■they also' bVirig-to onr" doors Old World successes' that probably would neper be. seeii-upon a local' stage, '.'flic attraction to-night "will ho the production for tho first time".'.in;twenty-fire years of Lccocq's molodipus. three Tact "comii. opera .','Manola." This wort 'is thirty' "years' old, : and it speaks yolumes"as..td'.ifa merits wheii we find that it.is_s,till a standard attraction,in•,-England and" America. ' -'.Thp story is, more .coherent than _the : usual run of flight operas; and is so' amnsing- arid - cleverly constnicted '~; that a well-known American dramatist built it into a.'' popular* farce- comedy. : That it will ,bo seen to-nigbt to the best advantago contemporary, criticism amply proves. The management have spared no expense in dressing and inotintLng,'_ and as tho : plot is laid in Pofr tugal,-during the'seventeenth there\ is plenty of scope for' spectacular' effects. A>feat'uro of'the production. .will he. the gor.gcpiis . "March' of. the ;Pages" in .the second ad. . ,Thp bos plan -is-atltlie'.Dresclen, 'and early door tickets dan bo secured.at Abel's..'.