ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2524, 27 July 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mr. Jack Waller's talented baud of entertainers, The Butterflies, appeared for the first time at His Majesty's Theatre last uiglit and gave a performance iv-liich earned the almost continuous applauso of a crowded house. The programme by the company covers a wide range of jtems, vocal and instrumental, the concorted numbers bems; novel and bright. The bulk of the comedy is in the hands of Mr. Jack Waller, whose clever work is an inspiration to the other members of the company. Ho was very successful in "The Cat's Courtship," in which his partner was Mies Cecilia Gold. ■ The latter also gained approval for her song scena "Dream Man." Miss Marion. Armitage (comedienne) pleased with a seaside song, "All the Girls are Lovely," and was even better in tho humorous character song, "Why do the Boys Run After Me?" Miss Ada Smart, the sopriiuo, sang "Garden of Love" with violin and 'cello obbligato, and was associated with Altissrs. B. Foster Hine (baritone), and Wylie Watson ('cellist), in rendering gems from "Faust." Quite a feature was tho violin solo "Romance" by Mr. Gregory IvanolT, Jate solo violinist of' the Tsar's Ist Life Guards. Mr. Ivanolf is undoubtedly a brilliant soloist and one whose-work 110 audience could fail to appreciate. Mr. Frederick W. Dennett, who presides at the piano, is master of the keys, and ho and Messrs. Jack Waller and Wylie Watson made tho audience laugh heartily at their burlesque on' a Hungarian orchestra. Owing to the dislocation Of 'the Main Trunk railway traffic 6ome of the new artists did, not arrive, but Miss Nellie Kolle, i character male impersonator, was there and scored heavily ■ with old and new turns. Tonight first appearances are to be made by Miss Grade Graham (comediercrie), and the Great Baffling Baker (illusionist), while Misses Jessie and Dolly Miller will reappear with their vocal and instrumental items. THE KING'S THEATRE. A great pictorial attraction was presented at the King's Theatre last night, in "The Middleman," an industrial drama uf tremendous power, written by Sir Henry Arthur Jones. ■, When staged in London "The Middleman" met with a magnificent success, and it has lost nothing in its presentation by the kinema. One of tho features of the film is the "star" part taken by Albert Chevalier, while the cast abo includes Jane Gail, the-talented emotional actress. The story of "The Middleman'' is drawn round the pottery-making-irdustry. Joseph Chandler, the solo owner of tho vast Tatlow Potteries, is. 011 the verge of ruin, when one : of his men, Cyrus Blinkarn (Albert Chevalier) discovers a. new glaze. This Chandler purchases for ',£SO, and soon makes a big fortune out of it. He takes Blinkprn's daughter into his house as companion to his daughter, and thevo Julian Chandler, the son, falls in love with the girl, and promises to marry her. The old man; however, has other views, and the son is sent off to Africa. Mary Blinkarn, to hide her shame, leaves her father's home, and Blinkarn vows vengeance on tho house of Chandler. Bash speculations again place Chandler in financial difficulties, and Blinkarn discovers a new process, and buys up the pottery works and Chandler's .home. His vengeance gives him 110 peace .for lie still.longs for his daughter. It is at this stage that Chandler's son returns, a hero from Africa, finds the girl in London, and brings her as ■_ his. wife to the father. . A happy reiiijion is the result. There are many stirring incidents in the play, and the powerful acting of' Albert Chevalier makes the film a great,success. Other pictures are "The Suitors and a. Dog" (comedy); European Gazette; Western Norway in Snow; and "Forcing Dad's Consent" (comedy). EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. A highly exciting melodrama heads the new picture bill introduced'at Everybody's Theatre, in Manners Street, yesterday. It is entitled "A Siren of. Corsica," and wherever. shown, it, .hap .bopn voted 1 one of the very best films over produced by the Liibin Company. The plot hinges round the relations between a Corsican adventuress and a wealthy American, with awife and family. Tho adventuress'follows the 'American, to New York, wliere'sho at-, tempts to murder liiui, but only succeeds in killing his friend. Then follows the escape of the woman and tho arrest of the American, who is eventually convicted of manslaughter on very strong circumstantial evidence, and sentenced to a long toriu of imprisonment. His wife, with a woman's courage and determination, crosses to Europe, tracks down the adventuress, and brings lier to bay in the bedroom of a hotel.' There:is a terrific struggle betweon the two infuriated women,' and the climax is undoubtedly a masterpiece of kino- I matography. The film is sure to attract big business throughout, the week. It is supported by a most amusing Keystone comedy, in whi:h Syd. Chaplin plays lead. "Gussle's Wayward Path" is the title of this merry-maker. It introdutcs a strong woman, who lifts the leadiiig comedian into the air with one hand and hangs him by his clothes to a hook on the wall.' An interesting edition nf tho Gauinont Graphic supplies reccnt news from tho thoatres of war, and the programme also includes a couple of other picture gems; Orchestral music adds the necessary finishing touches to the entertainment. THE EMPRESS. Throughout yesterday tho pojjnlar Empress theatre was packed with happy patrons, who laughed whole-heartedly at the oxcrutiatingly funny comedy work of Charles Chaplin in Keystone's mirth-mak-ing farce, "Tho Masqueraders." The popular .laugh creator in this absurdity discards his low coinody trousers, and attired in furs and skirts as Miss Geraldino I'ushbarrow, ho scores heavily. "Silence" is a powerful drama, buildcd on tho them« of hereditary insanity; while another verj excellent play is submitted in '.'Tho lunge of tho Past". This drama abounds in effective emotional passages. There is a very interesting Topical Budget, in addition to a new series of movements, "Within tho Enemy's Lines." "Beating Hearts and Carpets," with Hogan as principal comique, is another Keystono shown with good comic results. The work of the Bijou Orchestra at the evening screenings is a pleasant feature. "THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC." Considerable interest has been aroused in the series of moving pictures advertised to be shown at the Town Hall to-mor-row evening, when some of the methods adopted by those who tlirivo on the white slave traffic will be exposed. The management point out that ihero is nothing in aiy scenes that tho most sensitive can take exception to. It is stated that big crowds have flocked to see the pictures in the other cities of the Dominion, and intending pat Tons are advised to book their seats at the Bristol.