ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2382, 11 February 1915, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

: *— • THE GLAD EYE,COMPANY. "Ki Ki" will come to tie Grand Opera House on Wednesday, February 17, and the box plan to witness her arrival opens 011 Monday next at the Bristol. "Ki Ki" is a fascinating young French milliner with a habit of giving "the glad eye" to all and sundry, and who has made of the comedy of that name a success akin to marvelous. "The Glad Eye." started off being a record-breaker in Loudon, when it ran for 15 months without a stop; now it has duplicated, triplicated, and , quadrupled that success in Sydney, Melbourne, Africa, and Canada, and be- | yond that is nofr about to start a career of mirth in the Dominion. It was also about to be produced in Berlin when the Kaiser upset everyone's (including his own) calculations. In private life "Ki Ki" is Miss Ethel Dane, who'originated the character in. London, and in the merry band of comedians who support her are such well known names as Tom Shelford, Henry I. Ford, Frank Bradley, Alice Hamilton, Suina St. Clair, and Clarice Hardwick. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Music with a little wit and humour is being supplied at His Majesty's Theatre this week by the cheerful "Magpies," a clever and versatile party of entertainers. Phil Smith and Miss Jessie Barlee are very amusing in their medley of songs and jests. One of the secrete of Mr. Smith's success as a mirth-ptoduoer is that he appears to enjoy the fun himself, and to make his fun out of pure lightness of heart. The Soho dancers romp through their tango and other dances, and nightly win plenty of applause. THE KING'S THEATRE. A picture melodrama, with the title "The Spitfire," has pride of place on the bill at the King's Theatre this week. The story is full of humour as well as sensation, and as it concerns a millionaire's daughter, a gang of jewel thieves, and "the only man in the world" for the lady aforesaid, the plot does not lack interest. An interesting descriptive scries shows King George on his visit to the trenches before Ypres. Of the .more amusing sort -is a film about the foolish exploits of the corpulent John Bunny, disguised rather thinly as a. soldier. PEOPLE'S PICTURE PALACE. A hew programme will be. presented at the People's Picture Palace to-day. The biggest film is entitled, "The Moving Picture Cowboy." It tells of a sham cowboy who did things for the picture ma'chine, and who subsequently made the acquaintance of real cowboys and real cow ponies, when he visited a cattle ranch—the real cowboys found him out. Other pictures in the bill are an A.H. drama, "Just a Bit of Life," a S. and A. drama, "Biily's Boy," the Eclair Journal, and two funny films, "Winky, Bigamist," and "A Golden Laddor." EVERYBODY'S PICTURES. The adventures of Mr. Barnefi of New York, as originally told to many thousands by Mr. A. C. Gunter, are being. related again by the biograph machine, to thousands in Everybody's Theatre. The film is one of those examples by no 'means rare nowadays of almost perfect production. There is a Keystone comeav, too, "Dash and Splash," and others on the bill axe a war picture by the topical agcncy, and the Gaumont War Graphic. ' THE EMPRESS THEATRE. The new programme at the Empress Theatre continuous pictures to-day and to-night will bring forward a film of topical interest, "The Meeting of Three Scandinavian Kings," which dopicts the historic mooting lately of King Haakon of Norway, King Christian of Denmark, and King Gustav of Sweden, at Malrao. Among the incidents shown are the arrival of the cruiser with King Christian on board, the three monarclis together, and a spcctacnlar procession of students. Tlio Nestor Company will bo represented by a stirring Western Indian drama, "The Vortex." Other items will include "The Call" (A.B. drama), "Tile Topical Budget," "The Sunnier Gala" (festivities near the Canterburv watering place), and "A Bavarian Mountain Railway," displaying magnificont Alpine scenery.