ENTERTAINMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2148, 14 May 1914, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THE DANDIES. The final iHM'foriuauce of Tht» Dandies opening programme was given in Uie Concert Chamber, Town Hall, last before a Jnrgc audience. TaniKht Tbe Dawlit's will submit an entirely iiow programme, hill of clroicc musical numbers, with a suflicient leaveuinn of the bumorous. . A spncial liitmijer is it quartet i'ram Vordi's "liigoletto," "When the Years Again Keturimig," which will be suns by Missps Liada Bradford and Ethel Walker a»d Messrs. David L,ylo and George Taylor. ia now known, concerted singing is :i feature of the Ofangc Dandies'"entcrtainmonts, and tho programme is not j inefiiiig in those numbers. Tho soroeniaus will have ample oppottunity to riisplay their powers, and }Ir.' Rowland ' Henry will appear in a characteristic sketch as wolf as ill tbe &«ale, when, ; as a. cockney bus drivsr, he should have ampio scope for his humorous- vein. The- nfans for the season aro at the Dresden. I HIS MAJESTYi" THEATBK. Tho audiamis at His Majesty's Theatre last night was well pleased with the, entortainnioiit offered. Carlixiu Jlax, a rentviloquist. is one of the cleverest artists of his sort who have shown liore. Juno Salrao has a wonaerful eoatorlion not, on j high pedestal and on tt'trapeze,,- and Miss Dorothy Harris, tUe clover tagtiwe conasdieuße, is as amusing as ever. She is to leave at the cud of this week. THE KING'S THEATRE. The pictorial adaptation of Anthony Hope's "Prisoner of Zeiwla" is proving a great attraction at tho King's The"-at-re , , and last evoning many would-be piitjfoiis co-ulct not bo aecoramodated aftor 7.45 p.m., the bouse being full. Tho plot is faithfully aiid fully rec&rded by tins iilm, .and as the? play is by no means devoid of incident, it tends itself to the reproduction by the wachiiie. The supplementary films on the' programme hav© been- weJl selected. A special matinee performance is announced iW Saturday afternoem. THE EMPRESS THEATRE. A cdfaplcto change of programme will bo given at the impress Theatre oontiusauus pictures 'to-day and t<J-njght. Pronitncnt among tlio new items is tho Vitagraph Company's foatnre drama "Uttic Kaintuofc." The hero is a little city newsboy, wliq sets out to walk to his native hills in Kentucky. Tho little fellow moots with much kindness from an elderly storekeeper, who mates Hie child stay with him during tho winter months. Tho little boy amply repays his benefactor by preveivtiiip; a daring thief from seriously injuriiiß the old man.. There is a sonsatrowal _.scheme to steal a large sum of eo!d iii tho Michigan drama, "The Thwarted Plot." The plans are weli laid, and show eo»sklcrabl& cunning, but bv the merest accident tbe plotfails. -Strange sccttos in a big city of China aro clisplsyod in . the 'film "Peking. 5 ' other films af?.: "Strftwberrv Harvest," "A Bottle Mesk" (H. and A. dramatic), "The Whit* W (A.K.), and "Mas> Uta New Jjntkr," will-head the ec-mkf section. STUDENTS' CARNIVAL. Tho lieri'orman-cB to bo eiven at tho lawn Hal.lflii Friday, May ?3, by the st«(leuts of Victoria University' College, in noiionr of the graduates of tiie year, promises to be one <jf intorost. A* student lias written a ihusical Extravaganza entitled '.'Boadjcca," in which a cast of ten clinracters. wifl bh s«r»i>ortetl by a Btvoug and rarc&illjrjtraiiied' olwi-us of soveiity voi6dvkAMl(!cViftH.v-.<ielected moiisssra of more, than twjnty i.M?trnnients, Hiidt?r the bitten of one of Wei-, lington's well-ivM-sivn musici»ns, wi-B a.eeonipaiiy- the inu.sical play. The box plan opens at tho Dresden to-morrew. "