ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2354, 9 January 1915, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

THE SILVER KING. TO-NIGHT. The final performance of the "Sign of the Gross" was warmly received by a largo and enthusiastio audience last night at the Grand Opera House. This evening and Monday noxt will be presented by the Julius Knight Company "The Silver King," a sterling drama, one of the very Best of its kind ever written, and no matter how often, revived, always welcome; 1$ plot is well defined—it is all possible, and it is all fresh, hence its patent and lasting popularity. Wilfred Denver, is .one of Mr. Julius Knight's most finished impersonations. It is romantic and replete with forca and latent power., It is all the more remarkable in that it shows this fine artist to' perfection in a character different in mode and method than 16 customary. Miss Irene Browne has won many flattering notices for her rendition of Nellie Denver. It has been quoted as her very best characterisations. The full cast will be employed in interpreting the play, which will be mounted and staged in an unusually elaborate, style. Prominently cast will be Mr. Frank Harvey (The Spider), Mr. Eardley Turner (Jaikes), Mr. H. J. Bentley (Baxter), Mr. George Chalmers (Coombes), Mr. Leslie Victor (Oorkett), Mr. James Hughes (Cripps), Mies Dorothy Cummuig (Olive Skinner). "The Silver King" will be played for two nights only, and will be followed on Tuesday next by "Monsieur Beauoaire." The season finishes on Thursday. The Bteamer to Eastbourne will be delayed to-night till after the performance.

J. O. WILLIAMSON'S COMIO OPERA (30. PROVINCIAL TOUR. ' On Monday, January 18, J. C. Williamson's New L&ndon Comio Opera Co. will begin a tour of the provinces at New Plymouth, when they will stage Gilbert and Sullivan's tuneful comio opera "The Gondoliers." On January 19 and 20 they will stage "The Gondoliers" and "The Mikado'.' at Wanganui, and these operas will be staged at Palmerston North on January 21 and 22, and at Napier on January 23 and 25. The provincial tour will close at Masterton on January 26, when the company will present "The Mikado." The Wellington season will bo inaugurated on January 27 with a revival of "The Gondoliers," and during their stay of seventeen nights the company will also produce 'The Yeomen of the Guard," "Tho Mikado," ■ "H.M.S. Pinafore " "The Pirates of Penzance," and "lolantihe." The company is said to have broken every known record during the Sydney,' Melbourne, Adelaide, and Brisbane seasons, and recently in Auckland the local theatre proved too small.to accommodate the crowds which sought admission. The comedian, Mr. Charles R. Glenn, has been acclaimed one of the finest exponents of the comedy parts yet enloyed in this part of the world. Mr. Mfrard M'Keown is said to have fairly electrified.playgoers in Auckland by his brilliant rendering of "Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes" in "The Gondoliera," and of a "A Wandering Minstrel" in "The Mikado," and Miss Gladys Moncneff. fully sustained her Australian reputation as a oomio opera soprano. Mr., Frank Wilson is playing t. ij £- ng Parts. Miss Pearl Ladd, Katie; May. and Messrs. Albert Karanagh and G. Villiers Arnold are otnerleading members of the company. The Wellington season will introduce to local playgoers Miss Ethel Morrison (Mhol Magmmty), who wan* a: leading member of tpe local amai&ifijgspciety many years ago.'The box plans* will be opened in the country towns three dayß prior to the opening night, anil for the Wellington season they;, will-be opened at. the Dresden on January 23. There are over 150 travelling ; with the company. •

H3S MAJESTY'S THEATRE. His _ Majesty's. Theatre was orowded Jast night, when the final of the uharpshooting contest was got off. The contest has excited much interest through, out the week, while tho final last night if as exoiting and exceedingly close. Mr. M'Laughlin was the successful oompeti. tor, making 29 out of a possible 80. Mr. Muirhead was second with 27. Miss Beatrice, of Clinton and Beatrice, who conducted the contest, presented the winners with their awards, £1 and 10s. 'respectively. The remainder of the entertainment comprised the vaudeville fcurnß which have met;.with: ouch an excellent reception, throughout tie week. New artists on Monday's new programme will be Davenport's Models (living statuary), Keen and Waller (comedy acrobats from England), and George Whitehead (English operatio baritone). There will Be a matinee this afternoon. - THE KING'S THEATRE. To-night will be the last opportunity of witnessing that great political drama, "The Ring and the Man." which has been drawing suoh large houses to the King's Theatre throughout the week. The drama, which is produced by the Famous Players Company, unfolds a 'story of a man's triumphant battlo against the corrupt forces of a political ring. The supporting films are excellent. There will be a matinee this afternoon. PEOPLE'S PICTURE PALACE. Large orowds thronged to the People's Picture Palaoe at all sessions yesterday to witness the •• excellent selection of films which was soreened for the first time there on Thursday. The featuro of the bill is an appealing dramatio success entitled ."The Sea Coast tof Bohemia." The drama—an emotional one—is well worth going to see; it is splendidly, reproduced, while the acting is very fine indeed. The supporting subjects inolude "Fable of the Champion Who Was Delayed," "Flirty Florence," "Operator and Superintendent," and "The Eclair Journal." EVERYBODY'S PICTURES. The drollness of Charles Ohaplin, the great Keystone artist, in "Caught in a Cabaret, at present showing at "Everybody's Pictures," Manners Street, is creating no end of laughter at that theatre at all sessions this week. The film —really one of the most comioal ever seen in Wellington—will be shown there for the last time to-day. The supporting films are excellent, and include an engrossing drama, "Every Man Has His Price." A completo ohange of programme will be made on Monday, when the bill will Inolude the best photo-play successes with the loading picture artists playing. "The Acid Test," a Vitagraph society drama, featuring Maurice • Costello,, will be the headliner. Other pictures will be: "Lena and the Geese," a Dutch idyll" with Mary Pick-ford noting; "Their Ups and Downs" (Keystone comedy, introducing Rosa Arbucklo); "The Ganmont War Graphic," and "A Million Dollar Brido."

THE EMPRESS THEATRE. "England Expects," billed as a stirring patriotic "feature" drama by the London Inlm Company, will be introduced with the new programme at the impress Theatre continuous pictures on Monday next. The picture, which is full of interest throughout, goes to show how the patriotic call, of duty ,is ultimately obeyed by a ■husband, who. aided by the example of his relatives, enlists to aid the nation in her present crisis, lucre will be a special supporting series.

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