ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 632, 8 October 1909, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

[':;■■> ;.- .'.■'■■''.•'■.■• OPERA. HOJJSE.: ' V V ;: ."'\/"V V" .An .excellent mirthWoker'•is' ''' : S %"W>9«-'. There is. no doubt abbot ™ M priest, pessimist that. Wellington'v oonld prodnoe.woultf, be forced to smiles wore' : - M.tobe induced to spend an evening at the Opera Honso.this week. . The company which' •■ ■ Mr; Hugh, Ward has selected to interpret, the comedy .is. unusually- .rich ' in; talent; -: r Miss '■' Orace _Paoita, Miss Eose .MWrove, ahd-Misa '' •Celia Ghiloni, with Ur.Hngh -Ward, constituto an array -of talent, that is seldom assembled : together m'one company. 'Included in .the andience-last evening was his Excellency Eord Himket. ; The'comedy wiU be' repeated thS ;- ; '; -V'.; THEAraE EOTAi. . '..;:: ■ : ' '':•'.';.''■ .•'.''' •Exoellent. fare -in;,matters pictorial' J»; being 1 ■' ' shown nightly at he ; TheatriTßoyttl, i ind M ' •' evening, the attendance. was good in-pobf.ofi i numbers, and appreciative. - The films -'were:: - all lntereshng, perhaps the-beet being-.. "Tie' Ontoast;"'"The Cocoa Industry*" and "Thl Long Arm of the Law." ■■ ■ '"■• ••' *™' : .;'

;■.:;::,' THE , 'EpYAL..piCTURE&: '.: -\,.:;;'-V ; : His' ;M*iestyV. Tneatre •. was ■ again; crowded ; i last night, by picture lovers desirous of wit. nessing the,new,programme and'the exhibition", of first-class films was duly, appreciated: Among - the'pictures run off were: "The Legend'of • Orpheus," "The Adventures of #>hn Willie" - land An' Ol- Bachelor's Find." The pro-' '.'■' gramme will, be repealed this evening: "■•'■ "■"'. PICTTJBES...". '. The opening programme ; of. the. Star Pio . ; tures, commencing on Monday next, 'at'.Sfc '•'. Thomas's Hall, Newtown, promises .to be' ont of excellent merit, and patrons-are promised an.entertainment/of a' first-class order. Thi pictures* tfilli.embraceieverything new. m tn«. f art of kinematography, and have been car* folly • selected to please the tastes ' of' all."

s • [Ji^iiiiiJOTpNVel'oE^^^^^ The Wellington 'Choral : Sociely, under ' &»' cohductorship of Mr. llaug)ian Parne'tt,- wiL' combine -in the production-, of "The Black. Enighr (Elgar); and,"Song' of 'Miriam" (Schu* bert). Mrs. E. Hudson, Jan., will b'p the'%-'" prano.sploisl.. The performance will' tair place at the Tovm .Hall,';on 'October- 14,"