ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2538, 12 August 1915, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

TEE BED DANDIES..' One of tho finest attractions in tho City is the entorlainment provided by tho Red Dandies. This shade of tho Dandies' family of entertainers is remarkably popular jn Wellington, and during its present visit is adding to its popularity. A feature of tho entertainment is the porformanco of Mr. Claude Dumpier, who established himself in the hearts of' Wellington theatre-goeTS quito a while ago, and' has ever since been strengthening that positioh. Some of the otlier members of the company are already known here, but tho majority aro making their first appearance. All, however, are distinctly good; Thero will be a matinee on. Saturday afternoon.

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The current week's programme at His Majesty's Theatre is the best seen here for some time. Every turn is a "star" item, but special mention must be made of Brown and King, "two men with a pair of legs." These two give remarkable performances nightly, and considering that they only have, one leg each their acrobatic turn, is decidedly interesting. "Orphea" displays great talent by playing on a number of instruments at one and the same time. Jack Waller's "Butterflies Company," Barnes and Hamilton, Nellie Kolle, Montambo and Wells, and several other artists also appear, KING'S THEATRE. "The Stoning," Edison's great- threeact drama, is the chief attraction at the King's Theatre this week. I "The Stoning" expresses more powerfully than Words could tell a plea for a wider tolerance in tho social- othics of to-day. It is a story of an unscrupulous'man and a trusting woman. Tho light and' the shade, tho laughter that offsets the sadness, and all that bespeaks genius in productions are in "The Stoning." The 6upporting pictures are many and varied. . EVERYBODY'S. THEATRE. . "Three Weeks," the much-discussed book by Elinor Glyn, is being shown, in picture form at Everybody's Theatre, in Manners Street, this week. As presented on tho screen, the story does not offend anyone, in fact it is a beautiful drama, telling of love and hate, in the sad life of the beautiful.Queen of . 1 THE EMPRESS. Thronged, attendances ruled .at the popular Empress Theatre yesterday. The star film of today's all new list is Vitagraph's heart drama, "The Butterfly," in. which Helen Gardner, of "Cleopatra" fame,' sustains the name-part. "The Butterfly," a beautiful heiress, is wooed for her wealth by an English peer, a French marquis, a Russian count, and a German'baron, and is courted for herself alone by ,a Yankee commoner. The titled suitors in turn' resort to trickery and chicanery in their endeavours to annex the lady and her dollars, but their efforts are frustrated, and in the end she weds the Yankee. The German is nowhere in the-race. -Keystono will present its latest fun release, "Ambrose's Ixrfty Perch," and ah additional mirth-provokor entitled "Curses" is also listed. Kalem's sensational play, "The Wild Engine," features Helen Holmes, and is another of the thrilling detective series. The "Bathe Gazetted is said to contain many fino sections. ' '

IN NATURE'S OWN TINTS. , The public have become so used to the black and white. picture,_ and .experimentalists had become 60 sick of trying to tint pictures, in the likeness of Nature,, that the black and white and their halftones have come to be regarded as the be-all and end-all of pioturedom. The kinemacolour has ended all that, however. The new pictures have all. the glowing reality of "Nature. ■ , This is on account of the pictures being taken by kinomacolour,.photograph; tho colours are presented to the eye of tho camera as. well as the form. In tho kinemacolour, "With tho Fighting Forces of Europe," tho public, iFis stated, will see that pi<> tures.so wrought must claim the attention of the intelligent. It is all very well seeing tho black figure of a man walking "down "a white road'into a black forest, but it is a different thing entirely when one is able to pick out the exaot i tones and texture of the clothes the man is wearing, when the green fields and the muddy-grey of the ditches form a natural setting for 'the brown dusty road, and. a dozen tints of green glean redundant from tho forest in the distance. That is the sort, of effect one gets in/viewing the new picture, and as every view has some military significance, the reader can judge of the interest that is created, and which does not cease from beginning to end. The kinemacolour picture, with "The Fighting Forces of Europe," showing the armies and navies of the Allies, and of the enemy, will inaugurate its Wellington season on Wednesday next at the Town-Hall. The box plan will be ■opened at the Bristol on Monday moraingi METHODIST CONCERT. An enjoyable concert was given in the Sydney Street Methodist Schoolroom last night by the Thorndlon Methodist Mutual Improvement Society. The proceeds of the concert were in aid of tho oircuit fund, and as there was a large _ attendance tho fund should benefit considerably thereby. The following contributed items: | Overture, Mr. A. A. Brown; song: "The Groy North Sea,"' Mr. C. O. Coad; recitation, "An Incident," Mr. H. Stejtoe; song, "The Old Brigade," Mr. P. Aitken; violin -solo, "Berceuse" (Goddard), Mr. E. Meier; song, "Good Old New Zealand," Mr. J. S. , Connell; recitation, "Star of Australia/" Mr. G. Churchill; song, "My Old Shako," Mr.. J. Neilson; recitation, "Admirals All," Master Eric ■fankhurst; dialogue, "Jangle's Substi 5 tute, or Another German Retreat," membars of the society. Songs were also rendered, by Messrs. H. F. Wood, W. Thompson, R. Brown, and Master R. Pankhurst. Mr. J. Laurenson. gavo a monologue, and Mr. A. S. Hilliker ■ rendered. a 'cello solo. Mr. A. A. Brown was accompanist. _ During the evening an interesting exposition of rifle drill was given by members of the society.