ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2390, 20 February 1915, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

OPERA'HOUSE. ■ Tuesday nest is tho last night of "The Glad' Eyo" at tlio Grand Opafa House, and. on Wednesday it will bo replaced by Tile Chaperon," for tho final throo Bights of tho Beaumont Smith season. This comedy kept London more .or less lb. hysterics for a year, with Ethel Dane as one of the chief fun-makers. In Sydney it was voted a huge success, tho originality of the plot and tho fine actr ihg of Tom Shelrord, Frank Bradley, Sinna St. Clair, tod others making, the piece oven more popular than "Tho Glad Eye." The fun ningfis on the escapade of a yorung man. who impersonates a professional chaperon, to the great unnappiness of Christopher Pottinger. Mr. Pottiiiger's attempts to extricate himself from a complicated position land him deeper, in the mire, and his struggles to pilt things' right fbrm a basis for what the Sydney critics maintain is the funniest of all the Beaumont Smith Comedies. , The' ho:c plan for tie Chaperon will be open fit the Bristol on Monday and the plan sol- to-night will be at Miss Lennox's lifter 12.30 to-day. "SEVEN LITTLE AUSTRALIANS." .Next, Saturday Cecil • Haines and 'Sevto Little Australians" appear under the Beaumont Smith banner at the Grand Opera' Hous9, and it is certain that Wellington will give the clever httlo New Zealander a great welcome. • The huge success of the Ethel Turner play in ' Sydney is a happy augury for the season of tho comedy here. The leading adult character will bo played by Harrington Reynolds, an actor who Created such a good imoression as Father Kelly in "The Ros'ary." The children in the Cast are: Olga Agnew (Pip), Jack Radford (Bunty), Fred Carlton^ (Dumps), Veta Cannon (Nell), Esma Cannon (Baby), Cecil Haines (Suds), and Vera Spaull as the delightful red-haired heroine, Miss Bobbie.

'AUTHUB, ALEXANDER.' The preliminary announcement of Mr. Arthur Alexander, the yorng Now Zealand, pianist, appears in our Advertising columns tkis morning. Mr. Alesfinder, who has arrived in New Zealand Sifter in absence of eight years in London, and. is giving a s.eries of pianoforte recitals throughout the Dominion, las arranged his Wellington concert at the Town Hall on Tuesday, March 2. Tho London "Daily Telegraph," in their critioism of his last recital in tlio Aeolian Hall, says: "It is a great pleasure to record such a recital as that given by Mr. Arthur Alexander 1 last night. To begin with, the programme was exceptionally well urranged,, and contains several unhackneyed and interesting things. Mr. Alexander has a way with' him at the pianoforte which compels one's closest attention. He appears to feel tho true value of every note he plays, exaggerating nothing, omitting nothiiig. Tie box plan will open on Thursday noxt at the British and Continental Piano Q6mpany, 35 Willis Street. '' HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE.'

There is plenty of gay. buffoonery and lively musio in the programme that is being ' presented at His Majesty's Theatre this week. Phil Smith, the pocket London comedian, Tevives a lot of his musical comedy jokes in a crisp manner, and gives impressions of his" character work as a Tommy and ' a coßter. He .is aided by Miss Jessio Barleo. The Dental Riskitts show in a startling manner the power of tho jaw. It may be said of them''that they risk their life on a tooth. The dentist the Riskitts would conscientiously recommend should need 110 advertisement other than their daring aerial ac't. Tho Three Stars; Marie Quintrell. the nimble Soho Trio, and tho Driscoll Boys also help- along the fun machino. ' 'The Magpies" present an attractive little programme on'the whole, -and continue to raise money for the war distressed by means of Mr. Kennedy Black's cheerful finale, MA Bazaar in Toyland." A matinee is due at 2.30 p.m. to-day. KING'S THEATRE, The pictorial representation of Marie Corelli's fascinating novel, "Vendetta," is a masterpiece of crystallisation. The picture presents the main thread of the story with all the outstanding incidents most graphically and gripfully. It is Impossible not to 'be interested in every foot of this film. Other pictures to : be seen at the King's are "The Fight for tho Coast" (war snaps), "The Birth of the Flowers" (b, hurry-up, Nature study), "Back to the Kitchen" (farce), and the always interesting "Pathe ~ Gazette." There will be a matinee performance today. The King's Orchestra is, as usual, an attractive' feature. ' • EVERYBODY'S PICTURES. . pharles Chaplin, one of the funniest men'on eairth, continues to. wreck the gravity of large audiences at tho Opera House in a picture entitled' "Those Love ,Pangs." This comedian oozes comedy from every pore. He is delioiously idiotio and in no picture in which he has figured'has he over shown any conscious effort to amuse, in which connection he differs from all frther picture comedians. The programme is bright and varied in character.

"Through the Valley of Shadows,' 1 a' 4000 ft.: story/ which features Florence Turiier, the grealt emotional actress, will be the star item on the, new, bill of Everybodys to be screened at noon on Monday. The plot of the drama will appeal with great force to ladies; depicting as iti does the trials and struggles and temptations which the heroihe endures in her efforts.to carve out a road up the mountain of success. The production, it is stated, is magnificently staged, the dressing splendid and up to date, the whole lending a perfect ensemble to a perfect picture. Supporting ;th© "star" is a special-series showing views of the Broken Hill tragedy on New Year's, Day when two Turks held up a pionic train; a Kevstone comedy, "Zip, the Dodger," "Giumont War Graphio," and some war topicals.

THE EMPRESS THEATRE. • ■ The last presentation will take place to-day and to-night of tlie current series of tlie Empress Theatre continuous pictures, headed by the Regent Company's feature drama', "The Seventh Day." "The Maori Contingent" depictsourNative volunteers marching through tlio city last Saturday.- Associated with these are "Tho Waitemata Regatta," "How Hubby Got a Rise" (A.B. fnrcecomedy), "Young Mrs. Eamcs" (Selig : drama), and othors. A coinpleto change mil bo introduced on Monday. 1 PEOPLE'S PICTURE PALACE. 'A fine war drama having the present Titanic strugglo now proceeding in Europe ns a background is being, presented in "His .Tust Deserts" at the Pooplo's Picturo Palace. Othor pictures nt this thoatre aro "The Cracksman's Daughter." "Algy's Busy Day," and the "Eclair War Journal." PIANOFORTE UEOtTAL. Miss Reno Querco, the talontod young Now Zealand pianisto, who has only rccoutly returned from Europe, where she has been undergoing a throe years' course of study under Madamo Carrcno, intends to givo a recital in tho large Town Hall on March 11. During one of Madame Cnxrono's tours Miss Quereo played in London in a sories of concerts with Mclsa, tho famous Polish violinist, and won very high praiso for her excellent technique, and Madame herself predicted"!!, truly brilliant futuro for tho young Now Zoalandcr. Great- interest is boing evinced in this, Miss Queree's first., oppearauco in Wellington since her European and London • esperionces.