ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2009, 17 March 1914, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY'S TflfiATM. The outstanding "top4iners" in the new bill presented at His Majesty's Theatre last evening are Valentine ami Bell, who present a trick-cycling act which is the best of the kind, seen on the local stage for a iing time past. The niale performer cycles on anything that happens to ho lying round, from a guitar to an elongated grandfather's clock, mingling comedy with' audacious daring. On tho ordinary safety bicycle the man is a whirlwiiidNvonder. With the front wheel in i»id-air, he careers round frontwards, backwards, and spins round tike a teetotum, seated either on tho ordinary seat or on the' standard bar. And after this lip. executes the same feats.with the lady seated on his •shoulders. The.' most reoxarEaWe ' feat performed last evening was one in which ft bicycle is placed Vertically'' on. the stage beside a low okstie-to.ppetl tabic. Entering on another cycle, he. springs ow to the table, and bounces *• into the seat of the stationary. ■■ 'bicycle and whirls round the- stage with the front wheel revolving high in mid-air. Then, stiH on his perilous pel'di, he hacks against tho-.table, and. the yon.ng lady, Ins partner, takes a run and springs off the table.on to the. man's shotikfcrs, and together they career roiled the stage, on one wheel. Another clever feat was where the man, standing on his hands, which grip the handle-bars, does a double whirl pound -before regaining his seat. Another performer who tiekled the audience- by her btcad comedy was. Millie Doris, who' lias-a strong leaven, of the Mario Lloyd spirit in her coin* position, and ventures almost as near to the border line as that daring coifletli.Gi.tne. Miss Doris- sang, "My Actor Man," aiid gave a burlesque Salvation. Army skit with much aplomb. Les Ban Jf.ala.gas, tho Spanish., dancers, puzzled the audience with what they gave out as the Argentine tango. . Tho dance involved a good deal of nianipuliating with a couple of neckerchiefs, and some sprawling and intricate steps that were the reverse of graceful. The male dancer was seen in a capital Russian dance—-a-strenuous dance affected a good deal by the Cossacks—and together they gave an Apache sketch and dance. The Strattons, Scots 'duologuisfcs and dancers, -reappeared, and the Rosa Valerio Sextet made merry on the silver wires. Others who appeared were tho Philliiss Sisters. Miss Agnes Rawe.3, Sydney Bach, and Carlton and Sutton.

THE KING'S THEATRE. "Tattgo Dancing" was the magnet which drew a record house to the King's Theatre last night. Long before the : programme of pictures Was commenced 'the theatre was packed, so the manage' .incut wilt havo no reason to regjtfjt their enterprise in presenting this novel fib). It was indeed a novelty in film presentation, for lesions were actually given of how to dance the tango, "tho dance .from the Argentine," 'and other novel .dances, such as the " Viennese Hesitation Bance." The instructors were Wallace M'Cutchcon and Joan Sawyer, solo, ■instructors to New York's fashionable "Four Hundred." J?irst, a lesson was given to a client,' the music being a piano only, and the .player added a realistic touch by keeping time to the pictorial player, stopping when tho latter did, 5.0 that one seemed to hear the music coining from tho film."' jh giving a lesson in the difficulties of. the tango, the feet only of the dancing: couple were sometimes shown, to fully illustrate the steps. Their the real thing was shown,' the dancers being at a fashionable New York cabaret* "For this augmented orchestra wsis brought into play, and lively music accompanied some really fascinating dancing. isJ!|ie»fllni was welched with the closest:, interest, and will nodouht continue to draw good houses to. the King's during the week. Other interesting films vyei'B- included in the programme, "A« Aeroplane Lore Affair," iii which a marriage ceremony is performed in an aeroplane, being very exciting. "A Husbaad's Awakening" was a sterling 'drama, dealing with tho troubles of a. rich gentleman who neglected hir. wife and ehilil to devote his time to business. ! The awakening, to the fact that he was breaking up his homo came in time to avert that calamity. "Salvation Sal" was a drama going to the other extreme, and, telling of the salvation of a. slum A'ds and Iter heroic efforts to save her lover. Views of Washington. U.S.A.. aiid the "Gaemont Graphic" added to the value of the pro-, gramme. i THE EMPRESS THEATRE. Yesterday's new pregftnujne of the Empress. Theatre continuous pictures included the Vitagrapli Company's stirring feature drama, "The War-Maters." One of th<> leading part? is interpreted by Mr, Maurice "Castcllo, "the well.known picture player. According to the story a foreign Ambassador in America is ordered to steal a copy of'important United States war plans,' He invites a number of diplomats to a dinner, ami after drugging the wine of tho guests abstracts tho plans from ths packet of tii9_ Secretary of War, ■ and. quickly copies them.' He'replaces the plans'avid drinks some of the. tfrusignd wmc. When the guests revive, the" Secretary of the Navy rushes in. and tefls the other Secretary that the letter which induced him to bring the plans was a forgery. They examine the* plans and discover an iucriminatins blot of ink. Rosa, it woman spy, is handed the copy by tlie Ambassador to take across .to' Etiroue. The truth is realised bv the United Secretaries, and the wife of thevictimised .'Secretary mulertajws to sail in the same vessel as Kosa. in order to recover tho cbpjr «f the plans. After , many iii&crc&tnlg episodes the. wife discovers the document, mi\ sends a wireless message ti her husband uotify'it.'T him of tho good news. The sereeiiing of the play occupies over half an hour. The supplementary films include-: "Tho Twenty Thousand ■' Dollar 'Corot'" (Kalcm), "Trolhafcten Falls" (scones in Sweden). "The Cat-Came Hack" (I'rmoosr comedy), and' ''MiVtehii'wkin.g Dads." ... CECIL HAWKS 3TECITAT*. , Tho box plan for the Cecil Hsiws farewell recital at the Town Hall on. Friday nest apencTl at the, Dresden xtk-toi-day morning, and judging from'the first day's booking it. is' evident that the WeiFingten public recognise that in tliu ''oparlurs of this little artist wo are loosing cue of our moat jsoput.i? and ialei'rtod entertainers: A programme has been arranged in which ortgimrfiiy is to be the keynote., and with a vi'pw to adding an additional charm to the evening's entertainment,, nearly every item ii to be performed hi character, ■ Lewis Carroll's scene from "Alice in Wonderland," etstitied "The Mad Tea ; Party," proim'scs^to afford great smtisenient, and the same may ho said of ■ the Dickens character 'sketches, in all of which Miss Haijies will take part,