ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 676, 29 November 1909, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THEATEE EOYAL..01the fifteen' screenings' presented in the .Fuller Company's vnew; sMI« at.!. the : ■'■ Theatre Royal, on Saturday evening, there is not one that-.falls below, good.-average .standard, while as might be expected,.- several are remarkable, for novelty/ I 'treatment, 'or motif;;, A.proportion of the views also: are coloured. It ■would-be a difficult .master' to'say .which' is the best, -but as an instinctive, lesson. in-the.power of Great/Britain, on .the, seas,."A Naval.Ueview". should \!appeal' to -most 'people.',. The filnV,;Hthich .is an unusually .long one,.runs tke.:A? hole-gamut of: incidents and features peculiar to a naval .review, commencing with a parade of torpedo boats and covering ships-of the-line-r-leviathans "such as, the Dreadnaught,) Belloro'phon, ,Teme-., raire, iind, Superb. Probably the. most' strik- : ing, effect-in the wholo picture,' however,-is the parade of a host® submarines., "The Banks .of the Granges" isS'-'scenift. film conveying both, to cyi;£jia ."imaginationsomething - of . the ; strange,' quaint; Indian,; life 1 that lives and ,moyes;, and -'has its -being in valley. of' the ;«acred river,-and;the effeotis heightened by the •introduction of colour. . "Tho Adventures of .- John. 1 .Willie",shows tho 'experiences;of - a reck-' a' fairly humorous study, .'with a heavily;implied moral. The finale,.when John-Willie,'.after a somewhat'-debonnture and stirring?time; is-led.into'the-arms of-.his wife in.a.'couiitry; laiie .is a fitting .end-to a'laughable. sketch." 'Another, - capital on-the comic side' is entitled . "The Electric',. Street Fan," an instrument' 'which- has', something over the -power of a ivacuum' cleaner, and plays havoc ; with pedestrians,..-vehicles, and . everything .-. else that ' comes' before its destroying breath: •" The .niuch-maligned Ma-in-law' is also the subject of another humourous film. And'a picture, which is worthy of special note'from its - background of tr'agio association, >is "The Black Hand," ivhich purports to show tho manner'in' which .-this formidable combination -.works.' In, the■ case,presented, -however, the Black ;Hand has.right-on ite' side,''and sees-that' justice is 1 done' to a'wojnan; whom' one ,'of' "the -.persons of .the , picture" is attempting to" defraud out of a fortune. '"Street Scenes in Cannes" shows one of the celebrated French watering places which lie', adjacent to the more celebrated,, but not more picturesque, Italian; Eiviera. Other pictures are' "An Awful Symphony,"- Theodore's Beard," "Tho Little ■ Viofct Seller;" "An Old Bachelor's Find," r -Tho Legend'! of Orpheus,"' and "A Child's Faith.'';; The* programme, will, be repeated this evening. * :

- ROYAL PICTURES. . " ' Tho matinee and evening displays of . the Royal Pictures >at His Majesty's Theatre op Saturday were-largely attended.. One of the most interesting'! iilms.of the; present series dopicts "Consul, tho traine&.ape, in. a variety of curiously nianliko actions ana attitudes. The programme will be repeated . to-night. STAB PICTURES. : The. Star- Pictures were successfully shown on Saturday afternoon and evening at St. Thomas's. Hall, Newtown. ' A -new. programme is in .'readiness for' to-uight, but after that, there will be'no further display-until' next Saturday, owing to ; the ball _ being 'booked, for the intervening nights prior,, .to 'tho' ar-' rangeme'nts jHiade by the .Star Picture Proprietary.' .. . : - ; ' ORGAN RECITAL.v . • :;Mr; Maughan Barnett gave another 'of his . pleasurable organ, recitals at the. Town Hall Jdtt Saturday ..eveping. The programme was as' diverse in character, as anyone could wish, ranging from ..the masterful preludes ; 'of Bach (1 —■ "Wir glauben all au'einen Gott"; 2—Erba-lim' dich meini 0 Herre Gbtfi '3-r"Auf meinen lieberiGott")> in which'thejorgai'ist.showed a remarkable facility for' pedal ..work,, to; such trifles as Widows "Serenade" and the fanciful "Hymne Celeste" of C. J. Giey. Midway : might be' placed the musicianly intermezzo and finale of Kheinberger's So:.iata .(No. 20), Rossini's popular "William Tell" overture and an attractive "Berceuse" of Faulkes were also included in the programmes.' There will be another recital next Saturday, evening. PTTPILS' CONCERT. On Monday, December 13, the pupils of .MT. Leo. Buckeridge will give a concert at St. Andrew's Hail, Wellington Terrace, for . which an'attractive programme is being .prepared.. Tickets are obtainable, at ; Begg's and the Wellington Piano Co. . ''