ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1125, 12 May 1911, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS.

. "WHY MEN LOVE WOMEN-" Mr. Allan Hamilton's Dramatic Company still continues to draw crowds to the Opera Mouse. The play being produced is above the average class of melodrama, and with gcod .staging and beautiful .scenery combined with excellent acting by a good company, should draw larje audiences to-night and to-morrow (Hie last two nights of the season). Hiss Frances lloss is decidedly good in her emotional presentation of the por.-eentcd heroine, and Mr. Conway Wingliold (always a most conscientious actor), Mr. Ryley, and the other members of the company also play their parts well. THEATRE ROYAL. "Dan,'the Drunken Dog," and his fellow actors, in their one act pantomime, "Dogville," continue to draw large audiences at the Theatre Royal. The last nights of I Mr. Jules Garrison and his two Roman Maids are announced. Koko, "The Queen of Magic," Doc. Rowc, "J'rinee of Gamblers," and other members of the company were also well ■ received. The management announce a special matinee performance for to-morrow afternoon. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. An excellent variety of pictures, sentimental, comic, and scenic, was presented to patrons of His Majesty's Theatre last evening in the mid-week change of bill. Among the dramatic pictures is a strong one, "Pro Patrja," dealing with on incident involving love and hatred among a group of French naval officers. A commander comes upon a man and his wife having a quarrel at a dance on a warship, and the husband, fancying that the commander is his wife's lover, behaves most insanely, and concludes by challenging him to a duel. News of the proposed encounter is conveyed to the Admiral, who, to avert trouble, orders the commander to take charge of a submarine, and engage at once in a mock attack on the flagship. The commander is seen taking charge of a very queer submarine, which is seen to slowly sink in the waters. Then, as he is thinking over tho disgrace that will follow by his not keeping the appointment in connection with the duel, the submarine gets into difficulties, and, gradually, as the air becomes exhausted, all hands porish most dramatically. Another highly-dramatic picture introduces the "house" to the mysteries of manufacture of turpentine. Two hands employed in the' works love the same girl, and one, tho overseer, who is a most outrageous scoundrel; induces a negro to allow the tiiTpehtine to run from the still, until it catches fire, and the works are destroyed. He blames it on to his rival, who is immediately dismissed. Subsequently the negro. ' meets with an accident, and, in dying, confesses the truth. The overseer receives a severe, handling, is dismissed, and the young man is installed in his place, to the great joy of the young couple. Another interesting m'ctnro traverses" tho process of beer-making on an ■ elaborate scale, showing tho interesting process of labelling and filling the bottles automatically. Other good pictures are: "The Tenderfoot Messenger," "The Swans (a bpntitiful studv in natural history), ' -Wild Western "Ireland" (scenic), "A Tramp Cyclist," "The Gaumont Graphic, and "Bumptious as Romeo." KING'S THEATRE. Thoro is a well-considered variety in tho new programme- that was submitted by tho West's and Royal Picture Proprietary at tho King's Theatre last evening. A feature of the weekly programmes are the Pathe Gazettes, one of which deals with European events and the other Australian. In the former was a striking picture of.', tho Mid-Lenten 1 estiva!, which takes'tho form of a highly-decora-tive carnival procession, consisting oi topical and symbolical designs and figuregroupings, arranged with an artistic cy. for tho beautiful. The Australian Gazette includes a view of tho church at Preston, which was built in a day. It is quite a large building, and the little town is en fete, while the army of carpenters are "speeding-up" en the structure. Tho tfHectu of a storm at Brighton (Melbourne) are shown in.a.number of wrecked yachts, smashed beyond repair, and Melbourne fashions in millinery are displayed in tho Parisian manner made familiar by tho kincmatograph. One of the best quality pictures is a serio-comic romance of medieval days, entitled "Neighbouring Kingdoms," in which a daughter of ono noble house, is pledged to the son of another, without seeing each other. They object so forcibly in having marriage forced upon them . that when their portraits are painted by parental command both man and maid distort their features ludicrously, and when the interchange of the artist's impressions is mode, both declare marriage to bo impossible, and leave home. The lady disguises herself, as a ."goose-girl, and- the man as a "swain, in which disguises they meet, sigh, and love. The parents insist on the marriage, and both go reluctantly to the altar, to find that their respective papas are not such bad judges.after all. The picture is admirably mounted and well acted. Other pictures, grave and gay, are:. "The Old Player," "A WellSwept Chimney," "An Idyll of the Eighteenth Century," "Toto On the Stage," "An Affair of Honour," and "Crazy Apples." Tho next sensation at the King's will be a pictorial representation of Beerbohm Tree's production of "Henry VIII." THE NEW THEATRE. Good business continues at the New Theatre, where moving pictures are shown continuously from 11 a.m. until 11 p.m. Yesterday the hall was well filled throughout tho afternoon and evening, and the programme, which was being screened for the last time, was quite to the liking of the audiences. The following pictures will be included in the new programme to bo presented to-day.—"The Fatal Gold Nugget," "'Winning'Back His Love," "His Mother's Thanksgiving Dinner," "What is Home Without a Mother," and "Stormy Days, i That excellent comic picture, "The ; Humpty Dumpty Circus," will be inelud- . cd in to-morrow's special programme. SKATING! RINK. Last evening Fullers' Rink was well filled, and a very largo number of spectators watched those on the , floor. A special feature promised for the near future, is the fancy and trick skating of Madame Read, 'who hails from the Olynipia Rinks, London, who will give an exhibition of her marvellous evolutions on wheels. "THE WHIP." "Tho Whip," the latest Drnry Lane achievement, to be staged here by Mr. J. C. Williamson's New London Company, on Thursday next, is said to contain every element that makes for success. It has a strong story, and several sensational scenes. "The Whip" has the reputation of being replete with romance and human interest. The company that Mr. Williamson is sending to interpret the play is tho same as that which appeared in the piece in both Melbourne and Sydney. Among the members is Mr. Ambrose Manning, a comedian who .made himself highly popular in the Dominion with the late Wilson Barrett's company. Messrs. Lionel Atwill. Charles Blackall, Charles Graham, and Robert Bottomley aro all English artists of reputation. Of the ladios, Australian critics speak especially well. Misses Evelyn Kerry, Winifred Scott, Fyfe Alexander, and Cecilia Wiman have been selected from the ranks of the best of English actresses. The box plans will be opened at the Dresden for the first six nights on Monday next, at 9 o'clock. The method for reservation of scats for patrons living out of Wellington, and unable to attend the -opening 'of the plan?, is explained in our advertising columns.