ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2407, 12 March 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

THE COURT CARDS. The versatile and clever company of amusement vendors, The Court Cards, repeat-eel the second programme last evening to a good house. The Joker, Edgar Warwick, is the big card, and as a comedian holds a high place. Droll or breezy he makes u big hit, as his singing, patter, and bearing together soon grip the audience, and once that is done Edgar Warwick novel - lets go. Miss Maude Fane enjoyed double encores every time she gave the audience an opportunity to call for them. Mr. Sydney Manning scored heavily with "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes" and "The Trumpeter." ,The programme will bo repeated this evening, and tomorrow evening there will be a complete ohange of programme, when the charming scene "After the Hunt" will be presented.

"LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN." This remarkably brilliant comedy has been selected by Messrs. Plimmer and Hall as the opening play of their patriotic tour of New Zealand, which is to commence at the Grand Opera House on Saturday week, March 20. To those familiar with the writings of Oscar Wilde this comedy needs no introduction. It is perhaps the best play he ever wrote, and is alive with scintillating epigram and aphorism. Such plays are not seen every .day in New Zealand, but "Lady Windermere's Fan" has recently been revived in America with enormous success by Miss Margaret Anglin. , The whole of the profits of the tour are to be handed over to the Belgian Fund, which should be an added incentive to the publio to consider their evening engagements during the next week or two. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. A bright entertainment is given by the Randell-Jackson Concert Company, a clever party of versatile people, who now supply half of the programme at His Majesty's Theatre* The music is good, and the comedy is good, and it is strange but true that the same persons who can make good music can also make, good fun. The second half of the programme is quite up to the standard set by the 'Randell-Jackson combination. THE KING'S THEATRE. ■ A drama enacted in the almost impenetrable forests of darkest Africa is the feature of the bill at the King's Theatre for the week. The sensational story has been carefully prepared in this effective setting, and the film must be voted a real Topical pictures dealing with war: subjeots make up the" greater, part of the rest of the programme. There is one comedy that is worth a mention; a Vitagraph farce entitled "The New Stenographer." PEOPLE'S PICTURE PALACE. The new programme of pictures presented at this popular kinema. house yesterday is an exceptionally fine one. The feature picture is a drama entitled "None but the Brave."- The story concerns an English girl who was at Berlin when the; war broke out. With a view of helping her brother who was a naval officer she set about to get possession of certain valuable secret documents. In this she. was successful, but she was not' so successful in getting the papers to her brother. She was in fact arrested as a spy and made to work with other prisoners, digging trenches round Berlin. Meanwhile, the naval officer learns from German spi-'s taken in England of his sister's plight, and he resolves to effect.a rescue. With a detachment .">f soHiers he succeeds in getting through to the trenches, but there his. little, band is o< erwhelmed. The Allied armies come along in time, however, to prevent further unpleasantness, and both Sister and brother are rescued. Later, the naval officer, how in charge of a raiding squadron of aeroplanes drops bombs which do effective and visible damage, wherein he has. his revenge. The supporting pictures comprise a varied and interesting selection. The star item for, Monday's'change of bill i will be a stirring Klaw and Erlanger production,, "The Indian," dealing with the early "white incursions, into Indian territory. A feature of this picture is the great number of people who take part in the story. • ' \ • -2 1 EVERYBODY'S THEATRE, ; "On His Majesty's Service," the picture _ which relates' how' the German spies did not blow up a certain bridge in England,' has had a very successful run at Everybody's Theatre during the week. It is a very realistic story, and moreover the kind of story the British public rather likes to be told just now, so that it is a film that could not- now bo a- failure. Besides, there is a Keystone comedy which is well worth while. THE EMPRESS THEATRE.. The principal attraction of tho change of programme at the Empress Theatre yesterday was the . Majestic drama "Out of the Air." A railway fireman is dismissed for cowardice, and his fiancee declares their engagement cancelled. The fireman then obtains an engagement as an aviator's mechanic. His former sweetheart is walking along the railway line when her foot becomes caught in the points. Her little sister endeavours to release her, but in vain. The sister then telegraphs to a distant station to her father, who is driver of a goods train, warning him of her 'sister's peril. While the goods engine is unattended for a moment- a lunatic, a former en-gine-driver, starts the engine and jumps off again. Tho train rushes in the direction of the girl on tho railway line. Her former fiance hears of her predicament. Ho pursues the runaway train with an aeroplane, and drops on to the train in time to prevent the engine running over the- girl. His heroism wins back the love of the girl. "The Australian Gazette" is teeming with up-to-date animated news, including the official; landing of tho papal delegates at Sydney. The supporting films include: "The Other Train," "Making Straw Hats," "Cheap Transportation" (Lubin comedy), and "The Adventures of a Hasty Elopement" (Edison comedy). FLORENCE YOUNG'S COMPANY. At the Town Hall Concert Chamber to-morrow night Miss Florence Young, supported' by a company that includes Messrs. Reginald Roberts, Claude Bantock, and Edmund Sherras, will commence a limited season in "The Climax." a three-act musical play by Edward Locke. Misß Young impersonates Adelina von Hagen, the pupil of a master musician, and her career is destined to bring hor teacher and herself world-wide fame. A slight flaw is detected in her voice, and the girl's lover (a doctor) undertakes to obtain tho services of a throat specialist. The operation performed, the doctor, by mental suggestion, leads Adelina to believe that she has lost hor singing voice, and a life which had shone out in rosiest hues is transformed to one of gloom. The whole plot is one of absorbing interest, and during the progress of the play the principals render a number of songs. Miss Young's numbers include "The Song of the Soul," "Youth's Appeal to Age," "Tho Valley of the Moon," "lie d'Amour," and (duet with Mr. Roberts) "Little Grey Home in the West." Tho box plan is at the Bristol Piano Company's rooms.