ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2233, 20 August 1914, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. At His Majesty's Theatre busiiiojs continues to keep up to the normal, despite the multiplicity of other attractions. Miss Daisy Jerome finds plenty hearty approval for her admirablo versatility. She scores very heavily in "The i'ress, the Parson, and the Petticoat," and also causes a thrill in her dramatic scena, "Temptation." Other artists on tile bill arc: Sebastian Merrill and his Yip Yaps, the Hartley Wonders, Crotton and Kremka, Les and Sol Bern, and the popular "New York Comedy Four. KING'S THEATRE. Eugene Walter's strongly dramatic play, "Paid In Full," heads the bill at the popular King's Theatre, and the many who witnessed the performance of the Williamson Company, headed by Miss Katherino Gray, wjji find infinite pleasure in renewing an acquaintance with this virile play. Other pictures that meet with "approval are; "Our King's Navy" (with song by Mr. Charles Grey), the theatrical street feto in. aid of the Patriotic Fund of Saturday afternoon last. - and a splendid 'Gaumont Gazette." EVERYBODY'S PICTURES. "Tlia Mysterious Case," the dramatic story, of a sleep-walker, is the fascinit.'liß feature of the programme of pictures that is being presentcU at the Opera House afternoon and evening this week. Other good pictures ■of widely diverse interest are: "The Water Dog" (a. Keystone comedy), "The Making of a Soldier," and views of last Saturday's theatrical street carnival' in Wellington. "READY MONEY." The box plans for tlie first production of "Ready Money" by the ,J. C. Williamson Company are now open at the Dresden. The play comes here with the reputation of being the funniest comcdy of the season in America svnd London. The namo js certainly unique, not to say attractive, and if it is all that j's claimed for it everybody will be flocking to the theatre-for their ehare of "Ready Money." It seems a daring experiment Ho toy in a frivolous mood with fiuoh a serious subject as finance, but Mr. Montgomery is said to have written. a really diverting play around tlie failings of that portion i of poor humanity who have set up wealth as a false god. '"It is the best-constructed play that I have over seen," -wrote the oritio of "Tho Mirror," "and it has a most extraordinarily happy faculty of slipping round dramatic corners in the moat unexpected and amusing fashion. It is warm and vivid, and happily cynical throughout, and I am quite sure that it ivas making fun of me, just as w£ll as, it will fun of you and of everybody else—even tho players who play in it." .At the head of a strong cast.are the two star American comedians, Charles A. Millward and William Harrigan, who are both new to New Zealand. Miss Stella Payter, Miss Sylvia Bremer, and that old favourite, Miss Maggie Moore, are also members of the cast. THE EMPRESS THEATRE. A special attraction is billed to appear at the Empress Theatre continuous pictures to-day and to-night with' tho hew programme, entitled "Not Guilty," described as a stirring modern drama by the Film d'Art Company. It is represented in the plot that Lord Dane grows tired of his sweetheart, La Bello Camilla, a' beautiful circus rider. Dane falls in lovo with Maud Bra'xted, an American heiress. Maud's parents, however, wish her to marry the Marquis of. Verne, Maud is attached to the; Marquis, and she agrees to abide by-hor parents' wishes. Madly jealous, Dane threatens to blackmail Maud by means of'a foolish letter-which, she has written , to him. visits Dane's house to secure the letter from him. ; The circus girl is a witness of Maud's "visit, and, through jealousy, the former shoots Dane. This leads to Maud being charged with the murder, but in the end justice triumphs, and the guilty one pays the penalty.' DANCE RECITAL. The grand dance recital to be held in the large Town Hall on Friday evening next, entitled "A Peep Into Fairyland," promises to be a groat success. rustic scene from the Grand Opera House is being lent by Mr. Bert Royle. and w.ill make a charming background for the "Revels of the. Woodland Sprites." Many attractive items aro to be given.. The "Dance of the Glowworm," by Miss Peggie Reeves who will be clad in a costume of bluish greens and reds, is most, effective, and is one of Genee's favourite dances.The pantomimo entitled "Coquine" is to be given by the Misses Chapman and Thurza Rogers. An "Allies'" Gavotte, danced by twelve little gir.ls, and a, Marche Milit-aire' are appropriate to the time. Miss Marjorio O'Shea will give a ragtime dance, and,very quaint will be the "Elfin Dance," by "Billy" Menard. Little Jean Plimmer will dance a sprightly 'ICaprice." Other items will, include the "Baby Revels," a group of children from three to - six years; . a patriotic sOng called "England's Watching," especially composed and set to music by Miss Joye Eggers; "Tho Absent-Minded (Mr. Hugh Wright). The box plan is now open at tho Dresden, where seats can bo booked., ....