ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 678, 1 December 1909, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS.

. ■ "THE SCAttLET: Y' .'■'. t "The Sign of the Cross,-" as played: by the Julius Knight Company, attracted another largo, audience to the .Opera House'. ltvst evening.. The enormous houses' attracted by 1 thie. play.indicate that :it will yet endure revival.'. .. Tu'o .performances' will be. given'of "The. Scar-! let Pimpernel," to-night and 'to-morrow night j .The brave and debonnaire "Scarlet ■ Pimpernel" will at. Hie hands"of Mr.-Julius Knight again* ' rescue, the proscribed.French'.nqbility from the murderous, hands of 'the soldiers of the Reign ,of Terror..:.-. This' time 'we 'nro to .'". have': ,a. now Xady'.Margaret;-in rth'o.'person of , Hiss Beatrice Day, and altogether a very pleasurable revival of a favourite play may be confidently anticipated. ; Much public interest .is., awakened by the production of "An Englishman's Home" on Friday." A special' military: night ■has been arranged, whicn promises ro ! be , 'a: pronounced success. . Major. -. CourtehayV patriotic song, "What Wβ Have We'll Hold," .will be sung by ,■ the ■'combined Williamson: ohorus. .■ Prior, to "An. Englishman's. Home," Mr. Julius Knight will appear as Jacques Bernez in "The .Sacrament of Judas,", described by William Archer, the great English oritic, as the .finest one : aot'play of our.time. . ~-. ■ ."■.'..li-Y'. ; : ;. '. ! itheat^rptal:;.':"').^.:^: , "The Legend..■■'of: Orpheus,"..an:old,world niyth told by the kinematograph,:is one of the (prime , attractions among Fuller's Pictures this week.. There are besides films of all binds, and , the programme as a' whole is : a very good one. ■ . ;:' ; : '■" ; ..■. ROYAL PICTURES.' ; : . "! v ■ 'Another good house was recorded at His ■Majesty's' , last night, ..when "Consul the Great" •appeared for the last time at that theatre. Tonight a special programme of specialised subjects wilirbo shown, for the first tinie.'and itill include- films of. absorbing interest from start, to finish, -and-'.representative'' , of. every department of. Uinomatography... The star pictures of this week's selection will be:—"Julius Caesar? (history of Ancient Koine), "The'' Sculptor's Status' (a Pathe art .drama, beautifully, coloured), "Agra •in Bengal" (scenic, ■ coloured), "The Doctor" and."Cook Gets Married" (comedies). ■■:■ -.' •'■ ■'■■ .-:■ ;;■ ~ v;■ .;.: r . ; ,.'..',','•'; ' . WELLINGTON CHORAL SOCIETY AT'•'.-; ''.; ■ \LOWER^HUTT. ; -;;'.?' "I ■•';.- The, Box plan is.now'open, at Johnson's, Lower. Hutt, for the coming • performance, of "Tho Messiah," by. the Wellington Choral Society. The concert.takes place, in- the- Drill Hall, Lower Hutt, next Tuesday. ' This- great work' was composed in the year 17«', and- was written in the short space of three weeks. , Tho first performance was given in Dublin h>: 1742 for charitable purposes, and the sum of ,£350 was cleared out of ■ that' concert.: ..The soloists will be the same, as at the town concert, viz.,' soprano, Mrs. Arthur Mead; contralto,•• Mrs E. 8.. Buckeridge; tenor, Mr; 'E. J. Hill; bass, Mr. Alexander Millar. 'The performance will be - under the cbndiKjtorship of Mr. J. Maughan Barnett, with Mr. Horace Hunt'at ttio grand piano, and Mr. Lawrence Watkins at the organ. Tickets, oan also bo obtained at Messrs.. B. Kest. and Co.; Lower Hutt, and Mr. W. 8. , Nicholson, Petone." The oratorio will \ commence. at 8, p.m.,. and ■ will.. conclude at about 10.15 p.m. •.■■•..-, ; , '-..■■' .• ... A' very enjoyable evening is, anticipated as the result' of arrangements for a moonlight harbe-nr. excursion and promenade! concert by>' tbe Tromways Band at Day's Bay- to-night. The s.s. Dncboss will leve," tho wharf at 7.30, nefatrning from Day's Bay, at 9.i5 o'clock.-