ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1911, 20 November 1913, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

1 -►—~ ■( HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. \ ; Tho amphibious Arthur Troutt, who \ , amuses by doing such irmisnal thkgs as \ , taking food when submerged under | 5 water, to say nothing of other feats i: . which ordinary people find difficult | , enough in more ordinary surroundings, ;• . .is attracting quite an amount of atten- ' j tion at His Slajesty's Theatre. Tho ; , Vienna Trio, harp and violin instm- I J mentalists, entertain acceptably. Other \ . turns aro Paul Jeaeta, described as "tho •: . Whistling Bowery Boy," Keldino and i Speed, the Croydons; Lashward and K t Rcnby, and Johnson and Conway. i> ! THE KING'S~THEATRE. \ > "With Scott to the Polo" is attracting i I large houses to tho King's Theatre. $ 1 Apart from its educational value, the | I film is exceedingly iirtere-sting from i- • other points of view, and well Worth s 1 paying a visit to see. Other films worthy \ i of mention in a' programme of all- ) ; round excellence are: "The Pathe I ■ Gazette,". "Tho Melbourne Cup, 1913," I 1 and "On tho Broad Stairway" (drama), p , The King's Orchestra • (Siguor Truda 5 conducting) provides music of an at- j ! tractive character. | Tho educational advantages of -the k 1 .film, "With Scott to the Polo," will be | ' placed at the disposal of schools and s I others at a matinee on Saturday after- 3 noon at 2.30. * e EMPRESS THEATRE. I "The Secret," described as a. powerful | moderni drama by the A.B. Company, s will head the new programme winch is | to be submitted to-day at- the Empress ■* Theatre. .The story opens with a young | married couplo in straitened circum- t stances and almost in despair. The bus- i band, forced by hunger, is en the verge ;< of committing a theft of valuable jewels, | when the unexpected sight of his wife >y causes him to alter his intention. Both % subsequently enjoy a change of luck, | , and happy days return. Ths remaining % Eubjects include: "Tho Mountain | \ Witch" (Kalom drama), "The Trapper's | Daughter" (A.K. drama), "Lizards and '{ : Frogs" (scientific), "Hubbys Tooth- § ache" (John Bumty comedy), "One % \ Best Bet" (Kalem comedy), and others. % "JUDAS MACCABAEI'S." ' \ Under the conductorship of Mr. 'k Christian Hellemann, the Royal Wo!- \ lington Choral Society will perform js "Judas Maccabaeus" in tho Town Hall f to-morrow night, with a chords and or- i chestra of 451). This work of Handel's | is wonderfully rich in choral numbers, | an attribute that is welcome, for the | society has a good choir as a rule. A i choir of 100 children's voices will be | heard in' "See the Conqiieriirg Hero J; Comes." A' strong quartet of soloists ■/ has been engaged, the members of , | which have never met on iho one plat- g form. Two are strangers to the Do- « minion—Messrs. Harry, Noil (tenor), | and Reginald Gooud (basso), both of ij Sydney. Mrs. Arthur Mend, of Christ- i| church, will sing the soprano music, and k Miss Nellie Castle will undertake, tho % contralto role. The final full rehearsal h will bo held this evening in tho Town 1 Hall at 7.30. To-morrow evening the » doors will dpen at 7.15, and tho oratorio B concludo at 10.15. The box plan caw £ be inspected at the. Dresden, and 3s. i\ and 4s. seats reserved without extra f charge. Two shilling tickets aro now on | salo at the box office. It liaj; been do- | cided, by the management to issue a :jj limited supply of Is. tickets; these will fi bo 011 salo at tho Dresden to-ttiorrow. | A GREAT BRITISH BAND. . | TO PLAY IN WELLINGTON. j , The Royal Artillery Band, ef Wool- fj wich, England, will give concerts in the k Town Hall'on Thursday evening and % Friday afternoon next week. Many iiue | musical attractions havo visited New j| Zealand, but the approaching tottr of | tho Royal Artillery Band, 011 its way to k the Auckland Exhibition, must b<? count- | cd one of the most important musical fe events that have befallen tho few 1 towns in which the famous band will | be able to play. The band is one of m two or three famous combinations who !| hold a (juict rivalry for absolute su- | preinacy 111 the world. No baud is more & widely, or more favourably known," Prob- | ably no military band is mo.ro exclusive ! K in its engagements.. The Auckland Ex-.. [§ hibition authorities count themselves § remarkably fortunate in having secured f| such an exceptional musical attraction. )>| It was found convenient for the band to j| reach New Zealand by way of Bun- §1 edin, whore it is due on Friday; and |] arrangements were accordingly mado to fe give .the public as many opportunities E| of hearing it on its way to Aucklaud as P| were compatible, with its reaching the a northern city_ in time- for the opening |j of tho Exhibition, and concerts have |j been fixed for oach of tho three centres gi on tho way. The band consists of 44 | performers, under tho haten of one of fi tho most famous bandmasters in the 1 world, Mr. C. E. St-reitoit, and it is 1 equipped with a ' wido range of brass m and wood-wind instruments, enabling it 'jj| to produce tho most elaborate and beau- S tiful music- with all the richness and m variety of colour that distinguishes a % military band from tho purely brass 1 organisation., The programmes select* M ed_ for tho touring concerts are, it is m said, chosen to appeal to all, compfis- || ing a largo number of popular favour- 1 ites of various classes. .Unfortunately §j the visit of . the band is so strictly s| limited that it will be quite impossible for it to return to this part of the — Dominion, and it will have 'to leave c= Auckland for London direct at the close | of its engagement at the Exhibition. |