ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2721, 16 March 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

' HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. ; - Fuller's .Vaudeville Company ployed to another large audience at .His Majesty's Theatre last night; and' every turn on-the programme was thoroughly enjoyable. The Harrington Reynolds combination gave another good performance of "The Best Man," a play, in one act, and this class of turn promises to become as popular locally as it has long been at the Lonoon music halls. Armitage and Hine, comedy, sketch artiste, again. scored heavily, as : ; did Ted Stagpoole, the india-rubber comedian, and Bates audi Wade, comedy acrobats. The same bill will run until the end of the week,'with an afternoon .perform-' ance at special prices on Saturday. THE KING'S TIIKAffiE Owing to tlio big business offering at the King's Theatre this week, the inanagemont decided to screen"The Brigadier Gerard" twice daily—in the after-; noon at 2.30 and in the Evening at 8. The oast for this feature filiin is about the strongest ever seen in . Wellington, the title role being played by the late Lewis Waller, with MissModge Titlieradge as the Countess deV Rocquelaire. The supporting pictures are good, and pleasure is added by appropriate musi:al selections. , EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. .. ! "The Lonesome Heart" drew the 1 ■crowds to Everybody's Theatre again : yesterday,', the house being packed nt the evening sessions. Miss Margarita Fischer,.in the leading part, is especially good, but the whole: cast might be praised individually. A Vitagrapn comedy'and a "Gaumont Graphic".'are in,eluded on the. bill. Dress circle pat- ' ions. are provided with a cup of tea", free of charge at the afternoon sossions. "' ' EMPRESS THEATRE.'; . : Stagecraft on:the part of the author and .extraordinary", adaptability in the. leading actors have contributed equally: ko' the success, of "Up ■;•' From the Depths," the feature drama, being screened at the Empress Theatre this week. The picture is one that grips the spectators, and it i.5 drawing big houses here as elsewhere.'-; In the production, tho Reliance Company appear, to have spared no expensa necessary to its success, which has followed as. a : natural consequenco. The supporting features include: "Bothaland," a film showing interesting war evonts in South Africa. : "The Patlie Gazette" maintains its reputation as the best. of animated news films. "THE WOLF." What is described as a remarkable feature will be screened 'noxt week at. the Empress. This is "The Wolf," a six-Teel story of . romance, . and. the avengement of. a woman's the. backwoods of Canada. The film is from the story by Eugene Walter.- ' . - MAR.Y PIOKFORD. Mary Pickford plays do not come nearly .often , enough for the great host of admirers of the dainty little, actress, .and they, will be glad to know, that one iof her 'greatest .successes, : "Mistress Nell," 'will' be screened .at the' King's Theatre all next week, commencing on .Monday.night. "Mistress Nell" is.an sntirely'iiew sory of the'great- Nell Gwynn, and as the whimsical, ' piquant ictress i; at old Drnry , Lane, Miss Pickford is said to give (i truly great performance, and her reappearance will be nagerly. awaited.