ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2259, 19 September 1914, Page 11

ENTERTAINMENTS

BUOKLER-PAGET COMPANY. Another excellent house witnessed the final production of "His House in Order ,1 last night. "Fanny's First Play," which will be produced for the first time in Wellington by tho BueklerPaget Company, is written as an introduction, a three-act play, and an epilogue. First there are shown an Old World nobleman, who knows nothing of modern life, and four famous critics, who are about to witness a play written by the nobleman's daughter, Fanny. The critics are kept in ignorance of the author. 'Die play introduces two elderly couples of intense respectability; who are convulsed with horror to learn that their respective son and. daughter are each serving a term of imprisonment for drunkenness and disorderliness in ■ the city. There are also a footman, who is the brother of a duke, a flamboyant coster girl, and a French lieutenant. The erring daughter glories in ter experience , ,. The three acts are : full : of absurd - situations," and typical Shavian eatiro and respectability, and all the • conventions are pilloried and bespattered with biting wit. Then conies the epilogue, in which the out-of-date nobleman ex-, presses his horror of modern life as thus depicted, and 'he critics assure him that tho whole thing is but a pose of a playwright, an exaggeration and absurdity, probably written by Bernard Shaw. "Fanny's First Play" will be repeated on Monday. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. • The Dumetrisoue Troupe is the big attraction on the current' programme of vaudeville now showing at His Majesty's Theatre, Courtenay Place. The troupe perform exceedingly clever work on seven quadrate horizontal bars. Violet Carmen and Mr. Alf. J. Lawrence are old favourites, who prove nightlythat their popularity is greater than ever. There are other good turns on the present bill. ;.. • THE .KING'jS THEATRE. . Apart from .-the thrilling story it unfolds, the .star drama, "A Tragedy of the Clouds," now featuring at tho King's Theatre, has tfhe added attraction of unfolding some exceedingly beautiful scenic views which'are artistically coloured.. The etrong and varied list of supporting attractions includes a Keystone absurdity entitled "Mabel's Married Life." A matinee will be given this afternoon. For Monday evening the management announces the advent of an extra special offering in "A Woman's Triumph," a screen version of Sir Walter Scott's wonderful book, "The Heart of Midlothian." The picture is 4500 ft. long, occupies the whole of the second part of the , pro-' gramme, and follows closely Scott's magnificent narrative, founded on fact, of the Scotch lassie, Jeannio Deans, who walked barefoot.from Scotland to London, sought an interview with her Queen aud obtained and carried back with her to Scotland a free pardon for her erring sister, Effie.' The story is recognised as one of Scott's best efforts, and the film-, ed reproduction of it by_ the Famous Players is said to enhance its attractiveness. Other component parts of the programme will bo: "Life in the Philipine Islands" (scenic); "An Easter Lily" (Vitagraph .comedy), "The Prairie Dog" (nature study), "A, Modern Sameon"' (comedy), and the latest Gaumont Graphic. Box plans are now available atthe Dresden; " . ■ •-,-..-' v MAOMAfION'S NEW' THEATRE. ■ The New Theatre, in Manners Street, appears to liave struck a vein of prosperity, if the attendances at every ses''s'ioni'are' any-feriterioh. : star picture. "Lord Cbu'miey,"'i's a'clever and absorbing story with a strong British interest, and it embodies, some excellent military scenes of the Boer War,'as well as threading a charming love story through its more strenuoue • warp. It. is. supported by a capital programme, included in which is a defightful humorosity, entitled "Through the Keyhole," and a crisp and catching Lubin drama, dealing with the old theme of "Diamond Cut Diamond." On Monday there will be an entire change of programme, when the headliner' will be "Love in the Tropics," a new issue of a. pretty Wordisk photo-play, which has been revived by special request from a large number of patrons of the theatre. On Thursday this attractive picture •will give place to "In the Hands of London Crooks," a strong sporting drama from the Barker Company of an entirely new. order. Later, "The Lights of London" will be produced. ■ EVERYBODY'S PICTURES. The filmic masterpiece, "Antony and Cleopatra," will be shown for the last time at all sessions at Everybody's Pictures, Manners Street, to-day. \ The great Cines picture has proved itself a big draw during the week at this popular rendezvous ol picture lovers. ' A startling new attraction at Monday's noon session will be "A Deal with the Devil," characterised as .a Nordisk dramatic production of compelling power which relates • what is spoken of as a wonderful story dealing with the theme of overleaping ambition. The plot is stated to be finely developed, with the assistance of conspicuously good acting and commendable photography. The whole play is really the pictorial recital of an American medical student's extraordinary dreanu "Europe-at Peace and War" is one of those patriotic subjects which excite keen interest at the present juncture. Amongst other things, it shows the French frontier,' Paris and important centres, Germany's "bottled" battleships, shelling a battleship, H.M.S. Arethusa, Lord . Kitchener, General French, Turcos and artillery, our Indian troops, and other sections. Tbo film is, said, to call for enthusiasm wherever presented. Other pictures to be screened are: "The Silver Snuff Box" ■ (Vitagraph drama), "Among the Adriondack Mountains" (scenic), "Three of a Kind" (comedy), and the latest Pathe Gazette.

THE EMPRESS THEATRE. "A Fair Rebel," the stirring American civil war drama- by Klaw and Eγlanger, is drawing crowded patronage at the Empress Theatre Continuous Pictures. The producers have managed to present a most surprisingly realistic representation of a. battle between the Northern and Southern forces. In one portion of the engagement a field battery is eeen shelling a bridge over a stream, and the devastating effects of gun fire are vividly portrayed. Hundreds ot mon figure in the various battle scenes, and there is also a fine view of a parade of-soldiers at the famous West 'Point Military College. There are a number of other excellent subjeots. A complete change is announced for Monday nest.

TO-NIGHT'S ORGAN RECITAL. Owing to the many requests for a repetition of the Sixth Symphony of Tchaikovsky, the City Organist, Mr. B. Page, has arranged to play, certain movements from the Symphony at tonight's organ recital, and continuing them until the work has been completed. To-night's portion will bo the first movement which k perhaps the most impressive of the whole work. A now grcup of MacDowell's pianoforto pieces has been arranged for tho organ by Mr. Pago, and will bo played this evening for the first timo. They aro: "Prologue," "An Old Love Song," "A Deserted Farm," "From a Log Cabin,' and "An Epilogue." Cesar Franck s "Pastoralo" will be repeated this week, and another work by this composer, i.e., "Finale in B Fl.it," will niako up tho second half of this programme. "Light of tho Moon" (Knrg-Elert), and the "Great Toccata" and "Dorian Fugue" by Bach complete an interesting programme.