ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2010, 18 March 1914, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Valentino and Bell, who present a trick-cycling eamedy, ;u His Majesty's Theatre this week are artists of highclass, arid a;;ain last night their performance was recifcrously applauded ] by the largo erowd which filled tile house, Lc's B»u Malagas, whirlwind (Spanish dancers, pleased with soHie re« mnrkably fine dancing, including svhai '■ is described as the "real original un* abridged; Argentine Tango." Items were also contributed by. Millie Doris,; English character comedienne; Rosa Valeric Sextet, performers on the silver wires; The Straitens, The Phillips ■ Sisters, Tam Leonard, Sidney Bach, and others. The ttill.' which is full of variety,. will bo repeated to-night and {luring the feinaiiung nights β-f , the v/eek." THE- : "How to Daiice the TaagOj" the" real Argentine Tango, is the greaj. ambition of dancers in these days. Beiice the popularity of the tango pictures at the Kinn's Theatre this week. In 3000 ft. of film, Wallace JTCntclwon and. Joan Sawyer, sole instructors t* New York's fashionable "L'Vmr Hundred," are shewn giving lessons iu the nflvr famous dance, a«d tlier-o wa-s another crowded house last night to jcateh the perfofaianee. Big buismess is assuredfor the. remain ing niahts of the season. The pictures are brilliantly screened to M'CutcheQu's tango music, Wltich is capitally rendered by a grand augmented orchestra. THE BMPKBSS THEATRE. The present programme of the Empress Theatre continuous pifittiros witl bo screened for the last time to-day and to-night. The leading attraction is tho Vitagraph , Company's fo.roig.ii «py "fenturo" dra-ina, "fuo War-Makers," a particularly interesting pictiire. An exciting story of a stolen painting is emkdied in the. Katern "uia-sterpiicce" draiiia, "Tho Twenty Thousand Dollar 'Covot'." Beau t-tul* Swedish sqe.Be-i'y is unfolded in tiio.filja,' "Trqlbat-tcii Falls." there are other e-ntortaiai»g uumWrs. A ne\v programme will appear touiomw. CKCIL HAINES RECITAL. The farewell eo-mplimeutary rMital is Miss Cecil Hakes at the Town Hall en Friday uext- is expected to go with a swing frotii the grand opening parade of tho historical group, "W-obwu and Cliildren of Chaucer's _ Day," te tke Snale, when _Mbs-.ssita Chapriiaii will recite a few lines oi farewell specially' writtoft by Mr. Fi'auk Slofton. Miss Cecil Haines will tafce jiaffc in tvro Dickens chaweter sketches, associated with Mr. N-anuan Aitirsn and Mr, J. M. Clark respectively. Itt tlie "M»d Tea Party Scene" from "Alice in AYonderlaiid" she wiil take, ifeo part of Alice) and with little- Marjories O'Sbea. she will daaeo the Arg&ntiije tjiiigo (taught specially for the occasion b.V Miss Beere), and for her final farewell item she will giro lies old favourite, "A Trip to Blackpool." Qt.hcr .-contributors to the jJrograrowe wiii be Miss Agnes Segrief, Miss Eth-c)/ Lissack, and Di'. , NoWHCiii Hnles. besides several leading juvenile, perforators. The box plan., is mw open at the Dresden.

DUifE&IN PROGRESS,

■■■ ■'■■■» — "3IOVJXG SLOWLY BUT , STJSADUAV Councillor C. H. Baywafd, of Dunodin, was aiiiong tlie caMers «.nl the Mayor cm. Monday, the visitor having just returned from a trip ii AticKianu. !3j)e.a.kmg :cf.iljts iijipnpsswiiSj Sir. Bay* v/ar'cj saicV'tihat \VtiiiiifstdK' was fortuuote in not Jjaving the close, muggy weather, which appears to last througliJut the s-miie»' til Avickland. • Aftsi , . a fovy rlavs of such wrather ho had i'ftFi tjuite prostrated, and was not at all sc-rvy tt> leave again for the south. Iti cue regard Mr. Hayward aduijres tlid Auckland tvaW Service. He states that flie cars iieiror appwar to be ovwerowtied. This is , probably the result ol' all the cars from cvjry wburb travet-sing QwC'H Street. In Diiiiwliii the council much regrets having to "Biveyise" the palace cars.. ■ "It wiil reduce the oarryimg capacity of t.Jio ears," said' Mr. Hayiva,rol, "by from 13 to 50 Lier cent. There is H-β necessity for it, .as far as we ar© «on-. cenied, as ivo have jiewr had. im ac:i- '. dent that has arisen tllrougb a coiidncto>* being stnielj wlien standing o« tte side-step. 'She east or' Jidviiip; to altwj tlie. cars will sooner et iiiter fflean a. roadjustment of fares and sciftions.' llesjxscting DtiHcdin's source of el.ee teical supply, tlie visiter stated ' that there were still several, larp ireireta consti'UDb in coaiwction witli fto AVai» port scliemn. ■ Dtuicdin v:as also going in for larger water Mmseryatkm by erecting a," reservoir—to he caUed tlvs Sullivan Bam—in tho Water <sf Wtn | . watcrslied. They wore also a'bertt 10 ■ approach Hie electors for a loan m *50,00Q for * e erection of an addition to the Town Hall at tho rear of the nresent City ComicH offices, ■ ": "BiMiPflin is Em«e aliead -stoivly lr.it solWly," sn?d Mr. .Hoyn-ai-a,. "and its supremacy it-, the soutii is m ni&se tlii-oatsnpd hy *e Mosperity of Inwcarf'il! thrill was WoJlingWs by the advance of Palmorstoi North."