ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2634, 3 December 1915, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

' "POTASH AND PEELMUTTKR." Merriment-rippled through the big audience at the Grand Opera-House again last evening, where that funny farce, "Potash and Perlmutter," was presented' here for the fifth time. The good Jewish humour, with' the addition of a good deal of American flippancy, has quite solved, the problem of making all the people laugh all the time, and to keep the interest from flagging there is a moving love story running through the play. The .company is well cast, and the rollicking two hours' fun they provide should not he missed. The season continues until the end of the week. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. A good vaudeville liill is being shown at His Majesty's Theatre nightly. Some singularly good acrobatic turns are provided by Nelson and Nelson, and their balancing feats are very, finished. ' La France' Brothers also do something in the. acrobatic and'balancing lines. "The Musical Jack-in-the-Box" plays all manner -of instruments with extraordinary dexterity and understanding, while the other artists, the Le Roy Sisters (dancers), Gerald Griffin' (Irish singer), Henri French (who doessome extraordinary trick bicycle riding), Shea and Carter, Phil Percival, and the Lee-Aldous trio make •up a fine programme. THE KING'S. The programme at the King's Theatre, which has drawn crowded houses' during tho week, will bo shown for two more nights and a matinee only. The Vitagraph drama, "Tho Evil Men Do," vitli Maurice Costello in the lead, is a powerful and impressive one, and the supporting films are also of a high standard, drama, comedy, natuire, beauty, and art being strongly represented: ' On Monday night what is stated to be a masterpiece of tragedy and pathos, the Eclipse Company's great picture of, William Le Queux's story, "No Greater Love," will be shown for the first time. Mdlle._ Regina -Badet, the famous: French tragedienne; is said to be Wnderfhl as "Sadunah the Dancer." , It deals with a loving but over ambitious'mother, and her endeavour to win a high place for her daughter at any cost, and is said to be a remarkably powerful story. Anita Stewart and Earle,'Williams, , the popular stafs of the Yitagraph ; Company, will also be seen in a great one-act comedy. . EVERYBODY'S. This week's bill at Everybody's has been ti great success, due to that'admirable Keystone comedy, "Battle of Walrus and Ambrose," and in "In. the Path of the Express," a sensational melodrama, which portrays the 11th episode of "The Million ■Dollar Mystery." On-Monday the programme will; be changed, and a 2000 ft. Keystone feature comedy-will be the headliner. : This laugh breaking study, "A Rascal's Wolfish Way," opens up a new field in_ comedy work by introducing new and unique ideas. It is a. burlesque on a burglar's livelihood, and 'during the action of the piece railway twins, motorcars, and aeroplanes are used, with very laughable effect. : "The Elusive Treasure Box" is a rather striking melodrama. The valuable securities that are contained in .this box have undergone some vicissitudes •of. fortune, and even now the gang that badly want the box. are outwitted in their efforts to obtain possession. This brings forward the 12th episode of "The Million Dollar Mystery." Other good pictures to be screened are "For His Mother," a pathetic drama by the Edison Co.,- Tunis, a beautiful scenic; and the Gaumont Graphic, with the latest in war scenes. : ' THE EMPRESS. \ . Happened .on the Bermuda," a ' romance of the > high seas, is. drawing big to •• the Empress Theatre. Tho picture is particularly well produced, and is interesting'to' the point of thrilling. The departure of the Earl ctf/ Liverpool's Own and the Seventh Reinforcements is a fine picture, giving very close views of the soldiers marching, enabling one to recognise friends. A scenio study of merit is the cliffs and caves of Flamborough,. while the humorous portion of the programme is well represented in "Faithful to. the Finish." ■ •; "GOD'S _ WITNESS." . The'well-known novel by Augusta, Evans Wilson, '. ! At thorMercyrof Tiberius,"-has been made the subject of four reels : of motion pictures.by the Thanhouser Co. The part of Beryl Bretano, the youug woman who is called upon to endure and sacrifice so much for those she holds dear, is played by Florence La Badie,.and it is claimed that,her.acting is exceedingly effective. Associated with Miss La Badie are Harris Gordon and . Arthur Bauer, and many other less known players. The great court scenesj so well described in the book, form some of the big incidents in the film, and throughout the film adheres closely to the story so.-well told by the novel. This film is one of the "Jlutual masterpieces." It is confidently anticipated that the picture will prove exceedingly popular.