ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2495, 23 June 1915, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

r A crowded audience at His Majesty's i Theatre last night found the vaudeville programme veiy entertaining. Tho week's new artists include the Musical Goolmans, in a brilliant instrumental interlude; Maud and Gill, trapeze and trampoline performers; and Victor tho_ Great, assisted by Mdlle. Cothildo, in an original ventriloquial sketch, entitled "The Rich AVidow." Of last week's performers, the Three Ruddles are the most popular, the mid-get,-who makes up as Charles Chaplin, gaining rounds of vociferous appiause for his clevor comedy work. .Miss Eileen Fleury and the other contributors to the bill are all responsible for new items.

THE KING'S THEATRE. Views of the Panama Exposition are featured at tho King's Theatre this woek, and have proved oxtremely interesting at each screening. The film contains the wonderful spectacle of tho Vanderbilt Cup, in. which autocars aro seen racing at a sp«d of from 70 to 90 miles an hour. Supporting items are numerous and varied. One calling for special mention is the Majostic Company's drama "Vengoanco is Mine." There are also a couple of good comedies and a recent edition of the "Path© Gazette."

EVERYBODY'S PICTURES. Scenes following the loss of the Lusitania were photographed by the Gaumont Company, and are being produced at Everybody's Theatre in Manners Street this week. They are full of interest. The programme at this popular picture house also includes a Lubin society drama, entitled "The Rainy Day" and a Keystone comedy under tile name of "Ambrose's Sour Grapes." Latest war news is presented by tho "Gaumont Graphic," and there is an amusing comedy by the Vitagraph Company, in which two well-known comedians, Billy Quirk and Leo Beggs, provoke the onlookers to laughter.

MACMAHON'S THEATRE. The Cliarlie Chaplin boom at MacMahon's has set in with all the vigour of an early spring, and this theatre is being crowded at every session by appreciative spectators, who enjoy to the uttermost tie ridiculous burlesque of Charlie winning the world's boxing championship, with the assistance of his pet bulldog, who, in common with his master, has an utter disregard for the Marquis of Queensberry rules. The result is too hilarious for description, and the picture is throughout the happiest of extravagant fooling. In very different vein is a beautiful three-act drama, entitled "What Could She Do?" picturing a pretty and pathetic story of a sister's sacrifice. The "Pathe Gazette" gives the latest picture views from Home, and other features aro included in a capital programme.

I . EMPRESS THEATRE. "The Lusitania Outrage," -which deals with some intensely touching episodes which occurred after the sinking of the huge steamer by the Germans, is the groat attraction in the present programme at the Empress Continuous Picture Theatre, ana is drawing large houses. The supporting pictures are all up to the high standard set at'the Empress. A complete change of programme is announced for to-morrow, when the star attraction will be a fino Nordisk drama, entitled "Tho Candlo and the Moth." THE OHERNIAVSKYS. The three talented young Russian musicians, Leo, Jan, and Mischel Ckerltiavsky, will farewell their Wellington friends 011 July 7, 8, and 10, ere they depart for tho Continent of America. The extraneous fact, from a musical point of view, that at the present time the Russians are warm allies of tho Britishers in tho terrible war which is now being raged, has 110 doubt had somothing to do with tha remarkable cordiality which was displayed towards the Cherniavskys at the very outset. Their concerts, however, have evoked marked evidences of appreciation, not only from the facile exhibitions of technique displayod.by the.three brothers, but from the maimer in which tho Cherniavskys swayed their public by tho capacity of their art.