ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2718, 13 March 1916, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. • | Tho Fuller Vaudeville proprietary nnnouueo a- complete change of ' programme to take j)laco at His Majesty's Theatre'this evening. A number of newattractions will be offered, prominent among which will be Bates ant) Wade, two-American comedy athletes; Miss Jlloise Taylor, a lyric soprano, who will appear for the first time in a repertoire of operatic excerpts; and Mr. Ted Stagpoole, "the intlia-mbber comedian," whose extraordinary acrobatic antics have been favourably noticed by the southern Press. Mr. Harrington Reynolds and his company of dramatic flayers have been re-engaged, and tonight will produce a new playlet entitled "The Best Mail." A. complete change will be offered by Brown and Sorlie, negro comedians; Lvdia Carne, m'linic; Armitage ajid Hino, comedians; Hilda Foisted; and the Littlejohns, the diamond jugglers. The same programme will be presented nightly during the week, and a matinee will be given on Saturday. "BRIGADIER GERARD " Lewis "Waller and Madge Titheradge in Conan Doyle's great play, 'Brigadier Gerard." That announcement reads like the preliminary to a big dramatic season on the stage, rather than on the screen. Commencing to-night, "Brigadicd Gerard" will be screened at the King's Theatre all this week. The story of the dashing cavalry officer— "cither the biggest braggart or the bravest- man in Napoleon's army"—is too well known to need tolling. It is full of action, adventure, exploits for love's sake, much clever comedy, and set in the stirring romantic days of the Napoleonic era.' There will he a matineo on Wednesday afternoon as well as on Saturday. "THE LONESOME HEART." Margarita Fischer is acting in "The Lonesome Heart" at Everybody's today and nil the week. ,T The-Lonesome Heart" is said to be one of the most beautiful films screened here for some time. The story reminds , one of "Bags," llary Pickford's big success, inasmuch as in each case an unsophicated child of nature is the heroine. Samanthy is an orphan. Her romantic nature finds little comfort in the orphanage. She escapes. The girl takes all her wordly poods in a handkerchief, and all her friends in a jam-tin, the only friend being a frog, for which she had developed a liking. That is the ground-work,' and upon this a charming story is built. Supporting items include,-. "The Serpent's Tootli," a very amusing Vita comedy; and the "Gaumont Graphic 1 ' (war scenes included). The music is in the capable hands of Herbert Bloy and his associates in the orchestra. THE EMPRESS THEATRE. "Up from .tho Depths," a mutual master-picture in four parts, is the leading attraction at the Empress Theatre for the week. ■ This play pictures the story of a girl's heroic life battle and a man's regeneration, and is founded on the old story of a girl's infatuation for a scoundrel. There arc said to be many strikingly -attractive and realistic settings, a notably vivid scene being Mozart's saloon, in New \ork, set for the worship of wine. Courtney Foote, in the star role, is afforded an opportunity to display thoso talents which havo made him the screen favourite that he is to-day, while charming Gladys Brockwell Ts the gh* who conies ."Up from the Depths" to her true birthright as a wife and mother. Supporting films include: "loathe' s Gazette," scenfc study; "Cothnland," and a shrieking comedyburlesque called "Pressing Business."

ORGAN RECITAL. One certain result of the war will assuredly be that the English will get to know more of Russia and the Russian people. Hitherto all we have learned of the country has been as to | its badness—and probably its badness has been overstated. We have heard of the oppression of the luckless peasantry and the masses in'Kie cf ties' by the autocracy, of the occasional raising by tho oppressed of the red standard of revolution, or of the upspriiiging at intervals of fiendish hate finding expression in assassination or bombs. Perhaps Russia has had unhappy periods in lier history,i but the soul of the great Slavpeople has remained always unspoiled, and now we may know 'more of the real Russia. Especially does tho mystic spirit. of Russia find expression in music, and some of the-great Russian composers have recently sprung into belated fame. On Saturday evening Mr. Bernard .Page gave an organ recital, choosing his programme solely from the works of. illustrious Russians— Glazounov, Rachmaninoff, Scriabine, Rebikoff, and Tschaikovsky. The audience was only of about the usual size, all too small for such splendid music, so magnificently played.