ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 585, 13 August 1909, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

— HIS JIAJESTY'S. All tastes'arc catered for in the attractive new progranuno at His Majesty's Theatre, and last evening all tastes evidently found themselves well.suited. Aoroscope-romance, a street tragedy, in which "all's well that ends well," (English rural sccnes, Indian adventure,, -and agricultural operations 'in British ' Columbia form only part of this.cosmopolitan entertainment, whoso variety changes too often even to become stale. Tho programme will be the ttaiho to-night-. ' / THEATRE ROYAL. ' ' Tho process by which wood-pulp is made is interestingly shown iu a series of pictures noiv being exhibited at tho Theatro lloyal. Tho trees are felled, and tho logs rafted down rivers and especially constructed races to- a mill, whero they are sawn into chunky, bits.' Thesa are fed into machines, .of .-'immense strength, which chew'them into a, mastic state, when they are submitted to a 'cleansing and refining process before being iiiouldod into slabs for further treatment at the paper-mills proper. This is only l one of a capital selection of piotures' being shown 'by the Messrs. Fuller. There will be a complete change to-inor-row evening. " OLYMI'IA SKATING RINK. \ Nipping night's ate ideal for skating, arid tho lloor of the Olyinpia Rink is now a resounding rendezvous each, evening; "The morning and afternoon sessions, \yhen learners aro' in. largo proportion, s are also -' well attended. The rink will be open again to-day. - THE NELLIE STEWART SEASON. / At the Opera House to-morrow night. Miss: Nellie Stewart and; her. powerful supporting company will commence. their' thirteen nights'... season in a production of David Belasco's successful romantic comedy "Sweet Kitty .Bel-, lairs." Tho-booking is very- large indeed ~for the seasen, but there are aplenty of seats''iu good positions 'for■; the- 1 'opening '.night, 'which can bo proqured at the' Dtesuen.'';Positively only six fcpreseiitatiotis can be 'given -:-.of Belasco's play,-as on Saturday week!'"Sweet ■Nell": is' to be revived for . four representations,, dnd. the last three nights of. the. brief, season are to, be devoted to a production <of ."As JTou Like It.'' "Sweet, ICitty Bellairs" is. said to bo f(dl of interestirig'arid exciting .situations,'aud is bririiming over with clever and witty dialogue. Kitty Bellairs, tho new Qneen/-of- 'Bath, :is beloved .of by: everybody cxcelit-Lady. Bab, whom she has!deposed, and tlie Iniliskilleu officers' are devoted to licr. .In the .first act this is made plain. ' Kitty's ■ay/akening interest in Lord iVerhcy is alsd discoyeced; ■; as well ' as tho strained-; relations, between; Sir Jasper Standish and'his tearful ;wifo . Tho second is tho act that puts, into ni6tion : the . Bath tongues. . Kitty. visits the roam of Lord. Veniey: at a compromising-hour 'ill ordei- to ,'nV6vout'a duel between him and' Sir 7 Jaspor.' 'With La'dv- Staiidish ' slid is sur--;pi l ised ' 'by ■ the Inniskillen - officers, and thlca refugo behind- the curtains of '' fourpost bedstead in. ail-'adjoining alcove. The roystering, bucks danco and sing- ribald songs round the.bed,,finally .drinking the. health' of (ho concealed ...ones, ; .one. out of 'her unluckily dropped shoe. To protect Lady Standish tho'.fury, of her husband, and .'-to save Lord V«rney's life, Kitty sacrificesherown . .i'o-. putation,'.appears in' front''of tho'eur-!tain,--rebukes'; ' tho ribald , -crew;. ; .and coritrivos ■ 'a ' clever . ruse'ithe.cscape -of Xhdy . Standish. This is one of the' greatest scenes'in tho play,', and at its tei-niination ;oh -the initial Australian 1 'performance 'Miss'- St&iv- ! art -was called ' beforo tho curtain a » dozen time's. - The episode is soon all over. Bath.-! Bitter. .v.'ords. pas 3.: rapidly. and : increase in the bandying. Kitty'scores, off;., tho-ifashionable beauties, but when . they'-briu'g up ' their . reiiovyes. and "cut her dead,"; there, is"nOthiiig loft .for p'oo» Kitty but deposition -and '. retreat!; ' Lord Vcrney •would marry ; her, but his colonel demands his sttord if he, dares' to do so, and -in a pathetic soeno' she. insists oii;t«-' -leasing him from. hi> promise.: 'iFrom. htrd/on. ■tho interest- is . said to ..be. intense.. .-Thoso do-/ -siring;, seats,,iu - good ' positions -should not -.delay in, reserving them at tlie Dresden,. Tickets : for' the'early-dcor . stalls and .gallery'can now bo purchased, from ChriStOnson's. .. • ."i,.: '■/JANE." ■ .-' ' r The Mountebank Dranidtic Gompariy gave amuch'smarter performance of that excellent oom'edy-''"Jane , \.before ;a- good house at the Opera House last oraiing. "Jane" has been allowed.-to sleep too lo«g. It hns laughtOr-. conlpelling attributes .that.' very few comedies, ban boast of, and isj'fio' ilov-srly constructed that tho fun commences'with the rise of..tho'cur* .taiii, and v the. situations. grow. funnier: •as'-'the. plot develops. L'ebi dc Chateau is; a host' ill',.himself -as tho 'waiter-William;,'.'who is',-in. '4' comical 'fum'o tho -whole way • through at. . siiiingirliis . beloved Jane . posing as tho ' wifo' ■ oif, his master)' to shield the latter from ruin. AYilhem lias a:laugh, too, that resembles,-no-thing mora, than porridge on tho-boil, nnd-his splnttering anger, .is a thing of .mirth.' Miss Mollio-Marshall mhkes .a pretty Jane, arid what sha lacks, in v;hat, is termed "ginger,"., she makesup in personal .'charm.' Sho costumes ' til's', cliaraoter 'attractively- throughout. Go6d work is ' also": done by .-Misses . Quirk, •-JJrtnsenr'an'd- Nannesttd,' arid by Messi-s. P.) Lanipen, Rhind, Porter, awl, Dr«'lsaaos'.?-An orchestra 'under tho' direction , ; of' Mr.- Clark, provides appropriate entr'aoto music. • "Tano" will bo ,1-epeated for' the last: time this, even-; 4ng< when a military, aspect' will: be' given the. orchestra by tho . prcsencf, iii ' uniform - of' tho girrisori officers, who aro .to attend out, of .sympathy with the?objects tho: performances {ire'to benefit—the Navy League and the Vic- . toria Collego Extension Fund. "TEE MAGIC. CAP." . ,An ■ operetta, " Tho«.Mario >Cap,":;:wil .be produced.'in St. Mark's - .Sohoolroom. on. Fri-' any, Augtlst 13, under . the, musical direction of Miss Vare. The proceeds', aro to bo devoted- to, the 'Unemployed Relipf Fund.■