ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2252, 11 September 1914, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

HARRY LAUDER. There was another crowded house to revel in the comicalities of, that inimitablo Scotch comedian, Harry Laudcr, last evening. It is a rare pleasure to hear Laudorin such songs as "Itoamin' in the Gloamin'," "Tho Saftest o' til' Family," and "Ta-ta, Ma Bonnie Maggie Darling," and cvon when he is singing 'one of his less comical and more sentimental songs, he exorts a. charm that tiiero.is no. resisting. Ho is only to appear at two more entertainments —this afternoon's patriotic matinee and this evening. During the afternoon an enlarged autographed photograph of 31r. Laudcr and two caricatures of him will bo exhibited, and these will bo raffled at the conclusion of to-night's performance, tho proceeds to be added to the receipts of tho inatinee, and banded over to the Patriotic Fund. Messrs. J. and N. Tait announce that the whole company are giving their services for to-day's matinee aud the whole proceeds from the sale- of tickets, and of souvenirs, photographs, flowers, etc., mil bo handed over to the fund. The plan is at the Dresden, and tho day sales at Miss Lennox's Cigar Divan, next Opera House. . '. :

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. | At His" Majesty's Theatre this week the programme of vaudeville turns, is well varied, and suits all tastes. Marcell •and Bell, dancers and equilibrists, are moeting with a great success. Bonita's sensational sharp-shooting is something unique, and the stock-whip act of Billy Leo is very clever. The BrightjSisters put on an turn, and Sterling and Love's sketch "Discord and Harmony" is , well received.- Tho progiammo will bo repeated this evening, and there will be" a matinee to-morrow afternoon.. THE KING'S THEATRE. . That literary and pictorial masterpiece, "David "Copporfield," is an im-; menso,favourite at the King's, to which popular house it attracts crowded attendances nightly. It is a very long time since- a picture so well worth while has been teen hero. It is not only highly entertaining and instructive, but the great beauty of the scene settings, reproducing the environs of the old Cathedral City of Canterbury, taken in connection with the wonderful faithfulness with which the- living actors of the cast have reproduced the well-loved children of Dickens's , braiii as we knoivj them from the. written Word and tho engraving that the queer old folks seem to come back - from tho past to take their places on tho screen. , A film of particular local- interest, the great patriotic carnival, is to bo screen to-night. Special attention is directed to to-mor-,row., afternoon's matinee,- as "David Copperfield' , is something which every ; child could see with advantage. :

EVERYBODY'S PICTURES. The films at Everybody's Theatre, the eld Opera House, are attracting a lot of attention this week, for they are of an exceptionally fine style. "Tlie First Advoiiture of Jiathlyn," the first . of a eenes of exciting films, is well worth seeing, while "Our Country, Cousins" is a laughable Keystone comedy. ''Paris From tlie Seine" is an interesting topical picture at this time, when the "Gay City"-''is' threatened by a common enemy. To-night a film covering the great patriotic carnival is to be shown. Tho programme- is repeated daily. THE EMPRESS THEATRE.- . Tho Klay and Erlanger "feature" nielo'drama "Man's Enemy" is enjoying a remarkably successful, run at the Empress Theatre Continuous Pictures. Tho story shows how a young man sets out to injure another man, in the spirit of revenge, by ruining the oareer of the latter's son. The plotter has the assistance of a beautiful woman who is an adventuress. Their scheme succeeds, but friends rescue their victim, and his enemies receive due punishment. The subject is magnificently staged, and cleverly .acted. . The popular i Scotch comedian is seen at the Basin Reservo in a film "Harry Lauder at last Saturday's Football Match." There are new supporting films introduced yesterday. "Man's Enemy," with tho Harry Laudor picture, will bo screened again today and to-niglit. MACMAHOiV'S NEW THEATRE. .. In, "Tho Hour of Her Temptation," a charming Nordisk picture which is now being shown at the New Theatre in Manners Street, the, story deals with tho temptation of a woman, her fall, and her subsequent redemption through purely womanly characteristics'. It is a clean and healthy little drama, which has nothing in its atmosphere to offend, and constructively it is a delightful and impressive photo-play. It is supported by another excellent drama in "Her Old Teacher," a story which'is really a reminiscence of love and kindly ge'norosity, and is charming in both its constructive treatment and its theme. A good supporting programme is supplied of a well-selected character. The programme will be repeated to-day and to-morrow at all sessions.

BUCKLER-PAGET COMPANY. Although Mr. Hugh Buckler, Miss Violet Paget, and their compairy from the Little Theatre, Sydney—who conimenee their season on Saturday at tho Grand Opera House with the production of "His House in Order" —present a very full repertoire, they must ..not be confused with what is known modemly as a company a Repertory Theatre as it is understood in London, New Ycrk, and even in Sj'dney and Melbourne under other auspices where the dramatic' fare proffered is mainly of the uncommercial class of play. Tlie Little Theatre Company is more nearly akin to the old stock company who were always cosmopolitan and sought the favours of all classes of the community, and so to-day the repertoire of the Biickler-Paget Company is not composed of plays that are read by one section of the public and only produced by theatre societies appealing to library readers alone, but it is selected from plays that' have the endorsement of the world's box office receipts, though of late years the tendency of many managements in Australasia has boon to pass them by and rely on tho smart and effervescent American comedy drama. In addition tho composition of tho Buckler-Paget Company is such that there is hardly an individual member of it, whose name it is considered is not on the good books of all the world's best-known managers.