ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2389, 19 February 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

"THE GLAD EYE." In the "Glad Eye," which Beaumont Smith's merry company of comedians is now playing at the Grand Opera House, the pert Grisette is played by Ethel Dane,'who handed out the merry glance to London throughout the fifteen months' run of the piece at the Strand and Apollo Theatres. Miss Dane is the limit in dainty charm, and as irresistible to the audience as she is to Gaston (Tom Shelford), Maurice (Henry J. Ford), Chausette (Edward Laudor), and Galipaux (Frank Bradley). Alice Hamilton plays "the best-dressed woman in Paris," and her frocks fit the part. Any ouo of her gowns yrould iy>ake the average husband afraid to look the dressmaker's bill in the face. The nimbleness of Messrs. Shelford and Ford in the staircase soene is warranted to raise laughter. "The Glad Eye" season is to be brief, and all desirous of making Kiki's acquaintance should hurry to the box office. .HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. With "The Magpies" filling in a most enjoyable first half at His Majesty's Theatre this week and a talented array of vaudeville artists in the second half of the programme,/it can be gathered that big business is being done nightly by the Fuller-Brennan combination. The special feature of "The Magpies' " entertainment is "A Bazaar in Toyland." Mr. Phil. Smith, one' of the cleverest comedians ever heard at His Majesty's, is still on the'bill. THE KING'S THEATRE. A filmic adaptation of Marie Corelli's "Vendetta" is at present attracting large audiences to the King's Theatre nightly.. The' picture deals in graphic manner with the story of the Italian struggle for independence in the earlier stages of the revolutionary year 1848. There are some excellent pictures from the_ front, while other pictures include "Birth of Flowers." "Back to the Kitchen," "The King's War Gazette," and others. _ EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. The programme at Everybody's Theatre this week is an' excellently ■ diversified one. "Memories in Men's Souls"_ is a very fine dramatic picture, which is powerfully acted, while the direct. antithesis is the uproarious Keystono farce "Those Love Pangs," m which Charles' Chaplin suffers terribly at the hands, of Cupid. "The Battle is a graphic and realistic wir picture, while "Film Favourites" _ shows the popular Florence, Turner giving remarkable delineations of picture celebrities. There are other good films. THE EMPRESS THEATRE. The change of programme at the Empress Theatre continnous pictures yesterday was headed by the Regent Company's "feature" drama "The Seventh Day." James Inward; a worker in a big smelting works, takes his family to the cinema entertainment on Sundays; a by-law prohibits oinema shows on Sunday, and Inward joins some congenial friends and spends the Sunday in-drinking. Ho accidentally falls down a cliff, and is killed. Thus it is claimed the closing of the picture show robs the. workng class or a harmless form of amusement on the Sabbath, which they might otherwise occupy in debauchery. "Our Maori Contingent" depicts our Native volunteers on the' march through the streets. The supplementary films include: "The Waitcmata'Regatta," "How Hubby Got a Rise" .(A.B. farce-comedy), "Young Mrs. Eames" (Selig drama), and "The Man in the Cask." The bill will be shown again to-day and to-night.

PEOPLE'S PICTURE PALACE. . Quite a unique serio-comic feature film was introduced in the" new programme presented at the People's. Picture, Palace yesterday. The picture is entitled "His' Just Deserts" and as it deals with a German spy it is sure of a most .successful run;' Blum, a blackbearded German waiter, is reading a notice' which warns all Germans to report" themselves to the authorities, Blum is a spy, and naturally he wishes to avoid this ■ embarrassment. Mrs. Blum appears on the scene, and the. two put their heads together, and presently Blum is seen apparently at death's door. The doctor is called in by the weeping Mrs.' Blum, but he is too late, and says the husband is dead. . Blum is not dead at all, he has mere!}' taken a drug that gives to him all the appearances, of death. When ho awakes lie is in ltis coffin. To slip out of this, till it with bricks, shave off his beard, and disguise himself, is the work of ah hour or so. Blum—or ratlier_ the ooffin filled ; with bricks—is buried with all due ceremony, and once liis nationality is decently interned, Blum sets to work on. his spying business in real earnest. Mrs. Blum assists him. Then the storv turns to Germany. 1 The Kaiser decided that with one more "coup" Blum will get an iron cross or something. Blum is found out, however, and gets a few leaden bullets .in the chest, in fact, just gets "his just deserts." There are some very fine dramatic, scenic, and comic subjects _ included in the ; programme, including: "The Cracksman's Gratitude" (a fine A.B. drama), "Strength That Failed," "Regeneration," • "Algy's Busy Day," and "The Eclair Topical Gazette." The People's Orchestra, too, is well worth hearing.