THEATRE ROYAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1765, 2 June 1913, Page 6

THEATRE ROYAL.

Every seat at the Thwitre Royal was occupied on Saturday night, whfn nie week's bright bill was presented for the last time. To-night BrennanFuller will introduce their latest jinglish accession—Miss Violet Carmen and the composer-pianist, Alf. J. Lawrance, in song and story at the piano. The reappearance of the E=ma Duo, the clover i'lvenile simer nnd dancer, is onnounced. Herr Von Liston, the genial Dutchman, will introduce n number of new imitations. "Mik," the mysterious mind-read-ing dog. and . Madame Jlarvello's cockatoos will commence the second wrek of their season. Hugh Huxham's company of brieht and versatile entertainer, the Serenades, will enter noon tho last week of their season in Wellington, presenting a-n entirely now first part. To-morrow afternoon (King's Birthday) the management announce a children s matinee, when the programme will bo presented lust as at night.

PIANOFORTE RECITAL. In the Town Hall Concert Chamber on Saturday afternoon Mr. Baxter _ Buckley gave the first of a scries of six nianoforte recitals'for musical students. Those present keenly studied the rendering of the classical programme which was given, and no doubt greater numbers will attend before the conclusion of the series. Mr Buckler gavo tho following programmo:—"Fantasio Cromatica," Bach; "Pastoralle and Capriccio, Scarlatti; wnata, "Moonlight," Beethoven; variations, "Serieuses," Mendelssohn; "Paopilons," Schumann; "Scherzo," Gliere; "Barcarolle," Stavenhagen; "Polacca Brilliante," Weber; Study." M'Dowell. Tho next recital will bo on Juno '14.

MR. JOSEPH M'CABE'S LECTURES. The popular platfonn exponent of modern science, Mr. Joseph M'Oabe. arrived in Wellington yesterday from the south, after an absence of threo years. Mr. M'Cabe's ability as a lecturer on evolution and a«tronomv will' bo remembered from his former visit, nc is returning for a brief second season, in the courso of a tour round the world, and brings with him four entirely new illustrated lectures, which have proved most popular in Dnncdin and Christchurch as well as in Melbourne, where he delivered no fewer than W consecutive lectures to large audiences. The now illustrated lectures which with the "Evolution of Man." the most 'popular of his former series, comprise the uncontroversinl lectures of Ins reportorv arc the same as he delivers e.t tlio leadin" institutions in England, including the London Polytechnic and tho students' societies of Oxford and Cambridge. Mr. M'Cabe will mako his reannearancp in "Wellinfrton in the Conceit Hall tTnMit, taking for his subject "The Story of Life on the Earth," which will . ha illustrated with Mty rare slidca.