ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1080, 20 March 1911, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ANTON IA DOLORES TO-NIGHT. This evening, at the Opera House, Mdlle. Antonia Dolores will give the first of her Wellington concerts. Assisted by Mr. John Prouss and Mr. Selwyn Shrimplin, the programme is indeed 0110 of excellence. Mdlle. Dolores will bing:— (a) "O Willo, AVillo, Willo" (from M.S., in British Museum); (b) "My Mother Bids Mo Bind My Hair" (Haydn); (c) "Echo, Tell Me" (F. Hook); recitative, "O, Worse Than Death, Indeed" (Handel); and aria, "Angels Ever Bright and Fair" (Handel); (a) "Mondnacht" and (b) "Dor' Nn'ssbaum" (Schumann); recitative, "All! Tardai Troppo," arid aria "O Luce di Quest Anima" ("Linda" Donizetti); (a) "Tes Yeux Bleus" (Piernc); (b) "Crepuscule," and (c) "Marquise" (Massenet). Mr. John Prouse will sing the "Pilgrim's Song". (Tschaikowsky), "Morning Hymn" (Hencliel), and "Queen of Connemara" (Needham). Mr. Shrimplin will play "Le Chant du Nautqnier" (Diemer). The booking is very good, and big houses seem to be assured. The box plan and tickets to all parts of the houSe are on sale at the Dresden. . THEATRE ROYAL. The vaudeville programme presented by Messrs Puller and Sons at the Theatre Royal continues to-mcet with popular approval, and again on Saturday night there' was a large and appreciative audience. The clever juvenile trio, the Elliott sisters, were encored several times, and Miss Mabel Fowler, soprano, w:S loudly applauded l'or her artistic rendering of "Because I Love you, Dear." The other "turns" wero all well received. The management announce a complete change of programme for to-night. The new programme will include the first appearance of Daly and O'Brien, comedy entertainers, described as "the tangle-foot dancers." HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The popularity of His Majesty's Pictures is no doubt due to the excellent selections which Messrs. Fuller and Sons are careful to provide. Patrons entering tho theatre anywhere within a quarter of an hour before 8 o'clock on Saturday night found difficulty in finding a seat. To-night a complete change of programme is to bo made, and the management state that the filius to be produced are well up to the standard so long in vogue at this place of amusement. KING'S THEATRE. Messrs. West and the Royal Pictures Syndicate again presented a- programme of merit 011 Saturday- evening, and , tho public showed their appreciation by attending in largo numbers. The afternoon matinee was also well attended. A complete change of films takes place tonight, and to-morrow evening a special entertainment in aid of the funds of tho Wellington Cricket Association will be given. WILLIAMSON-OSSIPOFF CO. M. Eugene Ossipoff, the Russian baritone, will give three recitals in the Opera House on March 25, 27 and 28. Those who had tho pleasure of hearing him wh-sn with Lawrencfe Campbell a short time ago will no doubt take the opportunity of hearing him again for the last time, as tho company is making a farewell tour 'of the Dominion, and will leave for South Africa, America, and England about July. Miss Renee Lees is still with the company, 'which comprises, in addition to Eugene Ossipoff, several solo artists. The company is under tho direction of W. H. Williamson. The box plan will bo opened at the Dresden to-morrow (Tuesday). SUNDAY CONCERT. Last evening's concert by. tho Wellington Professional Orchestra at the Town Hall was attended by an immense crowd, a largo number of people being unable even to got into tho hall. The programme was a. very good one indeed, the inclusion among the items of Tschaikowsky's celebrated "1812"—written in commemoration of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow in that year—investing it with conspicuous interest. Taking all things into consideration, and particularly tho fact that its members are so. placed that anything like regular rehearsals of concert programmes is an extremely difficult matter to arrange, tho Professional Orchestra is entitled to the thanks of tho public for presenting, with commendable success, such an exacting and unusual work as Tschaikowsky's "1812" is generally admitted to be. It is a remarkable composition, remarkable for tho boldness and uncon\"entionality of its orchestration, for its picturesque colouring. Few composers have succeeded so completely as Tschaikowsky has_ done in his representation of a military conflict, with its varying fortunes, its climax, and the exultation of the victors. In the presentation of this number the orchestra was assisted by tho Wellington Garrison Band. Tho orchestra also played the now well-known "Cornelius" inarch (Mendelssohn), a favourite number on Mr. Maughan Barnctt's organ recital programmes; Herold's brilliant overture to "Zampa," and two numbers from tho "Peer. Gynt" suite. Mr. Herbert Bloy conducted. The orchestra was assisted bv Miss Mabel Fowler and Mr. Ernest *Parkes. Miss Fowler, whose assistance was niaftD available to the orchestra by tho courtesy of Messrs. J. Fuller and Son, sail 2 "O Divine Redeemer." and "Thero is a Green Hill" (Gounod). Though the occasion was hardly one which calls for more than a general review, ono may at least venture to suggest that a little more care with regard to correot principles in voico production would remove, in Miss Fowler's singing, a tendency to sharpness in tune. Mr. Ernest Parkes, who was in very good voice, sang "The Devout Lover" 01. V. White), and had to respond to an insistent call for an encore. Mr. Parkes's singing was ono of the most enjoyable features of the programme. Mr. D. Kenny played tho accompaniments. A meeting in connection with the complimentary concert to bo tendered to Mr. E. Parkes will bo held in the Mayor's room to-night.