ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1274, 1 November 1911, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. "Zigomnr" is the chief attraction at Messrs. Fuller and Sons' picture show at His Majesty's Theatre, and this fane film is gjuerally admitted to be onn of the best vet seen here. "White Wings on the Solent," "Bob the Rowdy, ' and "Courage of Sorts" aro other items in a. popular programme. Music is eupplkd by Fullers' Orchestra. THEATRE ROYAL. Another full house at the Theatre Royal last night bestowed applause on the American dancers, M'Geo and Reece. Miss Nada Moret, assisted by Messrs. Martinetti and Grcssi, amused tho audieonce in a clever sketch, entitled Iho Duke's Visit." Vcrnon and Mack, handbalancers, made a successful reappearance, and tho other members of a strong company contributed popular items. The programme will be repeated this evening. TnE KING'S THEATRE. Mr. W. S. Percy's drama "All for Gold," an Australian mining story, is now being produced by West's and Royal Pictures at the King's Theatre. Tho play is a capital piece of photography, full of thrilling incidents. A number of other interesting films figirro on the programme, which will be repeated this evening. THE NEW THEATRE. The people in the moving pictures which Messrs. M'Alahon and Donnelly showed yesterday iu tho Now Theatre wero mostly American. Somo of them were the story-book kind- of American who sells dry goods or some, other kind of goods iu his sparo time, and spends the rest of the timo falling in love in' most inconvenient places. Some of them worked their way across tho light, disc with tho obvious stealth of the story-book villain, and others swaggered and posed as tho real live hero is expected to poso when ho meets a picture man. They told stories of different kinds, too, but all the stories were told by American actors. "Tho Blind Princess and the Poet" is an allegorical conception, meant to typify various grades of men. This princess went blind before the picture began, and it was so ordered that she should not seo again until she was kissed by someono whoso love was unselfish. The privilege was reserved for a favoured few, but she remained blind, until a poor minstrel happened along. He kissed the fair princoss, and forthwith she saw. An up-to-date story of American hustle is related in the Edison comedy, "Who Gets the Order." Two bagmen wanted to sell the goods, and they tried very hard to do it, meeting with several adventures of the moving picture sort as they went along. Eventually they decided to divide tho spoil. Of snothcr sort was a travel film of views of the town of Erivau. It was seemingly a great city before tho last century opened, and the views showed relics of former greatness in the grandeur of tho architecture. Other typically American melodrama plots are unfolded in the scries: "An Indian Nemesis" and "The Captain's Wife." In the former it was that the faithful Redskin pursued tho baso paleface over rocks and crags until he destroyed all his enemies and saved a foundling white child. Ihe other story was about a wreck and a girl who was not drowned. She lost all her memory until by-and-by her erstwhilo lover passed that way, and then she knew who and where she was. The programme generally offers the spectator any amount of variety of subjects, all well taken and well projected. "THE WOMAN IN THE CASE." Speaking of the opening night in Sydney of "The Woman in the Case, which is to ba produced at the Opera House on Friday night, tho "Syduey Morning Herald" remarks that Clyde Fitch's new play "possesses a powerful-plot and welltold story, and with the powerful cast now interpreting the piece its run should be long. Miss Mabel Trevor in the role of a devoted wife gave a sensational surprise, carrying her audience completely away at the end of the first act in an outburst of passion that held everybody spellbound. Miss Elinor Foster, as the woman in the case, set:tho. seal on,her popularity iu the first act. As the old lawyer, Mr. Hugh Buckler gave a vory fine performance.- ill-. Gerald Kay Soupi-r (formerly of tho Oscar Asche Company) was perfectly at home as Julian Kolfe. In fact every member of the company fitted their respective parts." The box plan opened at tho Dresden yesterday morning, when there was a big demand for seats.

MUNICIPAL ORCHESTRA. The first concert of the Municipal Orchestra's second season will be given about the middle of this month, after which a vacation will take place till the beginning of February, as thore are so many other attractfons and engagements. In addition to the usual-orchestral and organ items, this concert will be the inauguration of the experiment of introducing vocal items, and the addition of these it is believed will be to increase tho pleasure of those who attend. The programme arranged for up to the present will contain music of very considerable variety—chiefly of the lighter sortsuch as the overture from "Poet and Peasant," the ballet from "Rosamond," one movement from the ballet "Le Cid," and a Strauss valse. In addition to these, Beethoven's piano concerto will bo given, with Mr. Horace Hunt at the piano, and Coleridge Taylor's "Ballade." Mr. Maughan Ba,rnett will also contribute two organ solos.