ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 604, 6 September 1909, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

■ OPERA HOUSE. ■ The gorgeous and diverting pautomimo "Jack and. Jill" filled tho Opera. House twice on Saturday— at a 'children's matinee performance, as well as in tho. evening. The Teddy, bears' dance, tho freaks, tho uuiraals from the ark, the butterfly dance, and a dozen other specialities of this most generous of pantomimes aio as attractive to the adult as to tho.juvenile mind, and the humour of the comic charac-ters-is continuous and bright. . The box plans for seven more nights will bo on view at tUo Dresden to-day. . ■■■■■.■/ ' v

.... THEATRE-ROYAL. Thcro was something, for everybody in the series o£ clever and elective pictures shown by tho Fuller Proprietary on Saturday: nfght, and as everybody is believed to'bo interested in battleships just now there was-naturally a preponderance of naval.subjects.. The pictures of.tho "Empire press Conference Naval Heview" conveyed n good idea of the grim grey monsters by pieans of which. Britannia rules tho waves. Tiio submarines scudded realistically across the field of viaion, tho flags fluttered, tho decks were manned on the warships, and ono could sit back- at ease, and fancy one- ■ solf.an editor or an admiral at will.. The.attack and .defenco on Whale Island by- parties of, bluejackets-was a livelier continuation of the saino ' theme, which was closed-appropri-ately/by tho' display' (ninid demonstrations "pf enthusiasm from, the "house'- , ) of the-Union Jack-.fluttering proudly and alone against the , sky. -Another naval .picture;showed "The Handy'■Sinn" in London—a spectacular occasion,: with some excellent street marching. The men of tho navy were also the heroes in a well-noted picture story, "When Jack Got His Pay." This was as realistic and natural as a kinomatograph story could well' be. - Jack, perambulating London with his just-receivod pay,, falls; among "land-sharks," who drug his .beer and rob him, but through the intervention of a.(lower-girl, whose heart Jack has unconsciously- won,.matters terminate .happily, for everybody but the thieves. Two good examples of those clever, little dramas .without words, which nro associated \rith the name of'Pathe Freres, were entitled "The Gambler" and "A Narrow lEscape." The former■ was a\poignant story, with'an ending which only just escaped tragedy. The moment when the gambler showers the money he has just won upon tho prostrato bodies of. the wife and child whom he' h'as driven; to self-destruction, is intensely dra-■:matic.-,"A Narrow Escape" is a story with a moral, and it is also at remarkable "triclt film." The pictures of the "Richmond Horse Show" have, somo fine jumping as one. of their most, popular features. . Horse-worship has its chance again in the drama entitled "A Race for the - farmers' Cup," but there is also a ■pretty'love-story in this, and a brace of villains .get their.deserts with the last click of the picture, machine. ■ Frank Stockton's, story, "The Lady, or the Tiger," is performed in sumptuous fashion, but instead of finishing with, a conundrum; the curtain, in the-kine-matograph'versibn,''falls upon - 'a : paternal blessing. Other interesting features of, the programme ' are "Picturesque "Lovo •Win's at Last,"."An Amateur Detective,"."Two Pigeons," "Breeding Bulls," and "Grin.. ; and Win."'-'- The. cinephone ■ selections are ' "Tho Bonnie 'Banks of Loch Lomond," sung by sladam D.trring, and ,"Jlary, v . sung -by iErne'sl Pike. 'Tho programme-will be; repeated to■night.;. ■ '!■ .:"■ :;:\.'. '; '', ' .;. . . - ; ' -. '

,". ; :':;, ; HIS MAJEST\"S .THEATEE., • - .;•;. ' This, -week's programme, at His ; Majesty's Theatre! teems" with good items. One "of the most interesting, pictures is undoubtedly that ■telling, the story' , of "Oliver; Twist." 'Fill* das it .is with dramatic.'situations, Chas.Dickens'a popular noyd is well fitted for rcproduotioii in tabloid, drama.form. .AVitlr this,, and other' films, .such. as. "Tho Naval Pageant on , ';.the Thames,' , "Joan of Arc,'' etc., it'is'hardly, necessary to say that, both exhibitions on SaS urdaywero very well, attended. ' ",' ', '■ J