ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2288, 23 October 1914, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mr. Leslie Holmes and his clever costumo comedy company scored another success last evoning at His Majesty's Theatre, where they are playing under engagement to Messrs. Fuller-Breiinan, Ltd. Mr. Holmes himself is an excellent comedian, and his numbers find great favour with local audiences. The other members of this talented combination are all worth hearing. Their performance occupies the first half of the programme, and the new vaudeville company then takes up the running. There will bo a matinee- tomorrow, and another on Monday, when uow artists will appear. THE KING'S THEATRE. "Goodness Gracious," a clever burlesque of melodrama, is the feature of thi, current picturo programme at tho King's Theatre. The him is a Vitagraph production, with Clara Kimball Young as a heroine. As a fun-maker it would be impossible to find anything much better in tho picture line. The supporting items include a capital series of war pictures, and an amusing comedy entitled "Bill's Job." A matinee performance will bo given tomorrow afternoon. EVERYBODY'S PICTURES. Crowded sessions were again recorded at Everybody's Pictures, at the old Opera House, ..in Manners Street, last night. The features of the current programme are: "Night Riders of Petersham" (Vitagraph drama), "Caught In Tights" (Keystone comedy). "A Modern Romeo" (A. K.- comedy), and the latest war news.' Altogether tho programme is a most interesting one. Music is supplied by an orchestra' at both afternoon and evening sessions. MAOMAHON'S NEW THEATRE. The programme to be presented to-day and to-night at MacraahorrS' Theatre includes two important feature films, in addition to the supporting subjects; A line exclusive by the Imp Company is "Jane. Eyre," a. film production adapted from Charlotte Bronte's pathetic story. Tho additional ' star (js "The Winner," a sporting drama, by the Victor Players, featuring Harry C. Stafford, a famous American jockey. The evet-popular Keystone Company, is represented by "Mabel's New Hero." Mabel Normand is hero at her best. "Some Pull" is by Crystal, and is a fine comic. The other picture is a fine industrial, entitled "Protecting Now York's Millions." . At all sessions yes'tcrday the theatre was crowded. THE EMPRESS THEATRE.' "Togoland," a "feature" travel film, depicting life among the West African datives .in the district recently taken from the Germans, is the prime attraction of the new programme presented at the Empress Theatre continuous pictures yesterday. Togoland is a valuable territory of about 33,000 square miles, with a population of something like two millions, comprising chiefly- Sudanese negroes. The opening scenes give a panoramic view of Baffilo, a large native town in North Togoland. There are long rows of peculiarly-constructed huts. A big. wireless station erected by the Germans, with one pole 580 ft. in height, able to exchange messages with Nauen, near Berlin, over 4000 miles away, is also shown. A squad of highlytrained native soldiers give a display of drill as it was taught them by German officers. Other interesting features are exhibitions of arrow shooting by giant" warriors, war dances, and a performance by a native band which contributes more noise than music. The screening of the subject occupies nearly threequarters of an hour. A number of supporting films of a varied type also appear. "BTJNTY PULLS THE STRINGS." To-morrow evening at the Grand Opera House, Mr and Mrs. Graham Moffat and a company of Scottish players will present "Bunty Pulls the Strings," the popular Scotch comedy. The charm of "Bunty," which attracted crowded audiences for 600 nights to the Haymarkot Theatre, London, and for 400 nights in New York, has apparently been at work with Australian and Now Zealand audiences, a 6, despite the war, large audiences.have attended the performances in the north.' The play'nas the advantage of being produced under the personal supervision of the author, Mr. Graham Moffat, who, with his w r ife, Mrs. Moffat, play their original parts of Tammas Biggar and Eelen Dunlop. The period of the play is 1860, and everything is done to obtain the right atmosphere, oven to taking into, the kirk the shepherd's doe, a quaint Scottisli custom which lias now been , dropped. The box . plans are at the Dresden. "SIXTY YEARS A QUEEN." "Sixty Years. a Queen," a 7000 ft. motion picture of All-British manufacture, illustrating the life and reign of the late Queen Victoria, will bo seen here in <lie near future. The competition in England amongst film buyers to obtain possession of this picture was the keenest ever known. Hay wards have secured the New Zealand rights' of tho film, wliich, quite apart from its merits as an entertainment,, has attracted the attention of all those interested iii educational matters. It is virtually a pictorial history of the British Empire covering a ' period of 64 years, and its educational value is easily understood. Mr, Barrie Marschol will control the tour of the picture- and lecture upon it.