ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 757, 4 March 1910, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

EICKAKDS' VATOEVTT.TiE COMPANY, For two more nights only will.'.. tha Eickarda' Vaudeville' Company, entertain at the Opera House. .An entirely new ?■ programme was ..provided, last. evening, and the clever people of the company will be seen in the same items to-night. ... Mr. Franco Piper . juggles and plays '" banjos instantaneously, in a truly remarkable manner; the three sistersTraprail;, dainty young ladies, perform acrobatic and tumbling feats most gracefully! Mr. and Mrs. "Bob" Fitzsimmons, whose' f appearance :is always the "occasion for ■'■'•. .cheering, present a. little scene, which - affords the noted- boxer an opportunity' •■ for a few minutes'' exercise at the punch- • ball. A feature of the entertainment is ■'■ the biograph pictures,' showing a- round of the. contest between • Jeffries and Sharkey,, two rounds of the Burns-Johnsor' ■'• contest, and five rounds of that betweef- * ' Lang and Fitzsimmons.: The seasoi ■"■ closes to-morrow evening. • * THEATEE EOYAL. -.. , ' il Deave's Marionettes form ; .the • chiel attraction at the Theatre. Eoyal thii "' week. A miniature, theatre is ' 6hown,.' : . miniature audience, orchestra, and all, v ... and small people on strings are mads . to imitate vaudeville artists, most amus----ingly. The stage "animals" are. also ■'~ put through some diverting ~ antics. But ■ •the mannikins provide only one item in .' an up-to-date vaudeville programme, all : contributors' to which have undoubted " talent. The entertainment will be to- " peated .to-night. . '■'"-.." , eotalpictue.es.- .. ■ •. ~i The picture which forms the "stai* .' item at His Majesty's Theatre in this ..' week's new programme is entitled: "John : Bull's Foolish Hospitality." It is th< •; first breath of politics . that - has entered'-:: into kinematograph entertainments here. ' •- . and it npholds-the views of the Tarifj '.-' Reform party at Home. Nevertheless, ' the lesson taught by John Bull,: jun., ;,- when he finds foreign representatives crowded round his father's table, is fullj appreciated by the audience. There an . numerous other pictures, the most pro. minent being: "The Test," "Memories," "Fenton of the 42nd," and; "The Mar.' ringe of Coco."- The pictures will be ' shown again this evening. . ~ ' , STAR PICTUEES. ; - Maintaining the high standard of pio " tures with which it commenced, the Star .Picture Company, at St.- Thomas's Hall, Newtown, has had the satisfactior '» of seeing the audiences grow nightly, and, - these days, the hall is never far from : crowded. This week's series of pictures '-■ are an 'attractive selection, two of the best being: "Dr. Nikola," and , "The Bugle Call." They will be shown again this evening. - -. ,i