ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 662, 12 November 1909, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

;; : "THE .FEMALE , SWINDLER." ■;;..; o h j7 *&*&■■ performance of' ..".The : - Female Swindler was given by the Anderson Dramatic Lompany. at the Opera House last night, in the presence of .an appreciative audience. Melodrama, always has its charms, and the inFemale. Swindler" is weir maintained. The prolonged fight between Detective Coulsonand Warden, the villain, occurs at the end of the pieoo, by which tiiue.the latter has so well, earned ■ toe wages 7 of misdoing that no one. is exactly.'sorry, to-see. him pushed' from a window into the river below. A touching in--cident occnrewhenLu Vatroy, the handsome adventuress, declares her love for the'detective, whom-she .imagines to; be drugged. The scenery of the, piece is • excellent; perhaps "the moststriking scene being a view of London trom a high building by 'night, and 'the general arrangements • reflect great credit on > that ini; portant personage in inelodrania-4the starn :manager. ."The Female , Swindler",'will-be repeated this evening; On' Monday next the company ' willprcsent for the first time in New ■Zealand Walter 1 Melville's ' drama "A Life's Revenge." ■ . i . , ; '"■■■:■"■■■■..-.

, . ;.' ■ ; i-THEATEE' : EOYAL; /'/' ■$"■[ .- .The excellent' programme being shown this ,w«ek by the Messrs. Fuller at the Theatre Koyal -is.drawing, large attendances; arid lasl night was no exception. "The Boyhood , ol vidocq,.' "The.Cowboy's Sweetheart/' and - Latham s Attempt .to Cross the Channel" were perhaps, the chief attractions. The usual change of programme will take place to-mor-row evening. . . .... .' ;.■;. ■ ', • .'.-. , : ■ . .HIS. MAJESTY'S.:';,:- ;'-. Y. : The new: programme of Koyal Pictures 'was given .a second .time last: night to a large audience., "A feature of the- scries of ; films' ■now being shown' is. the largo amount of excellent colour work. "By-the King's Command is a historicaU comedy, played by Parisian artists'. There are" some excellent industrial subjects, and a s'eleotiori of ■ veryamusing trick and humorous films. 'Thebill will be; repeated -to-night. • ■'":.:'.'': ■. . ■ ■''/•:'". V STAE PICTTJRESi '•,.'■■ -.7:.\ . The. Star Pictures will resume their successful., ■exhibition..this evening, and" will'show nightly at 8 o'clock. ■ There will be a matinee ;tm' Saturday, _ admitting ' children for 3d. :to the , body of the'.hall.;. ■■■■'■ : . .iv, '.-. • '.■■-.'.• ''■. ■:';., OEGAN , .The..organ 1 recital which'was sot down'.to be Riven at the Town Hall on Saturday, evening' ;has_ been postponed; on account of the' hull having been engaged for the , Shackleton picture :d;splnv. ~>;,.; ..i :.:,/ ■■:.-. v.- . . *.... .