ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 888, 6 August 1910, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE HUGH WARD SEASON. A big audience filled the Opera House and bulged over into the street at "Tiio Girl From Hector's" last evening. Mr. Ward, Miss Grace l'alotta and the particularly capable company give .an. effervescent performance of this merry farce, in which every line means laughter and every moment a bright irifla. Tho booking for the next and last four nights is already very heavy. "THE FENCING MASTER." Next Thursday night "The Fencing Master" will be produced by Mr. Ward and his company at the Opera .House. Tho play is a powcrfully-writ-ten comedy-drama by Herbert • Hall Winslow, and has earned highly eulogistic noticcs from tho Australian press for its exceptional artistic merit and

the clever interweaving of comedy, pathos, and sustained dramatic interest. Mr. Ward, who will fill tho title role, will bo scon in an entirely, now environment, which affords unequalled scopo for the display of his inimitable .talents as a character actor.' Mr. AVard will personate an Italian nobleman, broken in fortune through tragic circumstances and forced to > flee, to tho .United States where ho becomes - a fencing mast©*.. Tho old aristocrat is accompanied into exile by his son in whom his fondest hopes are centred. When tho play opens the' son has reached his majority and falls in love with a beautiful heiress. A rival appears and trumps up a chargo of forg : cry against the young lov6i, and as. tho plot is skilfully unfolded tho old fencing master discovers tho father of tho designing' rival in his own long life-adversary who brought about his own ruin. Miss Graco Palotta, as tho heiress, has a most congenial part In which her fascinating charms will add fresh lustre to her already great popularity. The other members of the company are all admirably cast and are afforded the .opportunity of displaying their versatility as artists. .The box plan for the three performances of "The Fencing Master" will be opened 011 Monday morning at the Dresden. ' . HIS MAJESTY'S. . A programme of pleasing variety was thrown on tho screen at.llis Majesty's last evening. Industrial,' 'scenic, dramatic, and comic subjects were all well represented. Worthy of spccial mention is a.study of enthralling .interest in which dramatic- passages in the relations of two brothers, and their ultimate reconciliation, are . - portrayed vividly and-with, strong dramatic effect. In an entertainment of ; so much allround merit it is difficult to single out particular items, but evidently in all its details the programme elicited the approval of the numerous patrons who last evening assembled to witness its presentation. Tlie same pictures will be shown this evening.. KING'S THEATRE. The programme of pictures submitted at the King's Theatre this week is richly humorous in general character, although films. conveying a great deal of popular information are, by 110 means lacking. "Why-He has to Tip" is along comic film that provokes continued uproarious laughter.- The picture showing a posse of highly-trained police dogs at work is of great interest. These aro but a few notable items in a varied programme of unexceptionable merit. It will be repeated this, evening. THEATRE ROYAL. Messrs'. Fuller and Sons present an excellent programme at the Theatre Royal this week,.and some of the turns aro exceptionally . goody notably . tho trick cyclists, Valdaro aud Varno, who do daring feats on bicycles. . Rupert Christie, tho boy soprano, Gcrtio Johns, Keilderson, and several others still delight the audicnco with their clovcr turns. The last nights are announced of tho Two Rosebuds. Tlioro will bo a complete change of programme on Monday night. SKATING RINK. " 1 At both sessions, for learners, at the Olympia Skating Rink yesterday thero were good attendances, and notwithstanding tho wet weather tho floor at the evening session was well filled.. The rink will be open as usual to-day.. TO-NIGHT'S ORGAN RECITAL. After a long interval, Mr. Maughan Barnett will resume his series of organ recitals on the To\Vn Hall organ, to-night at 8 o'clock; when Iris programme will bo composed, of . the fantasia .on "Carmen," by Bizet, Guilmant's first sonata, and the Slumber Song, by Neviii, nnd works by Bach Salome, and Pierne.

MBS. Oltll-LORING'S CONCERT. An excellent programme of a varied and popular nature lias been provided by Mrs. Orr-L'oring for her concert at the Concert Chamber, Town Hall, for Monday.evening. Mrs. Orr-lioriiig will sing "Caro Nome" (Verdi), "Lol here the Gentle Lark" (Bishop), with flute obbligato by Mr. Thomson, "April Mora" (Batten), and together, with Mr. Ernest Parkes, the popular duet from the Lily of Killarney, "The moon has raised her lamp above'.". Mrs. Sut- • clill'e will recito: "Defence of Queen Katharine," from Henry VIII; ■ "Kroin India" (Bennett), by special request; "Tiny Brown" (Alen). Mr. Herbert Bloy, . the violinist,, will play: "Romance" (Wietuawski); "Hejro Ivati" (Hubaz); and Mr. Ernest l'arkos will siim: "Prince Ivan's Song" (Frances Allitsen), "From Oberson to Fairyland" (Slater); and -Mr. Davo Kenny will preside at . tho piano. The box plan is now open at the Dresden.