ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2775, 19 May 1916, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

HIS -MAJESTY'S THEATKE. I A good vaudeville bill is being presented at lli9 Majesty's Theatre . this week; in fapt, it is one of the best seen here for some considerable time, and the programme is varied enough to suit all tastes. As comedy artists, Early and Laight fully earn the applause which is nightly bestowed on them. They are two very clever patter comedians, and the male member has a most pleasing, resonant, bass roico. Tiny Tot, Marjorie, and Little Eileen delight patrons with their dancing and contortion acts, while Armitnga and Iline create roars of laughter when they arc on the stage. Other good artists include: Cook and Handman, Carlton Max, Myra Gale and Sadie. THE'ICING'S THEATRE. Marie Doro, whoso performance in Wm. J. Locke's famous -book and play, is so delighting the King's Theatre patrons this week, is one of iiiindom's last rccruils from the stage. Miss Doro joined the famous Mayers Co. some few months ago, and after starring in the "Morals of Marcus," she joined the Triangle Co. Who is now under the Lasky banner. There is a strong list of minor films at this theatre. "TEE COWARD." Thomas H. luce is known in America the film realist because of. his ability to combine great modern spectacles with "iff modern dramas. Iu '".The Coward,'" a triangle play, to bo shown at the King's next week, the battlo scenes are said to bo war realised. The vast roar and tumult or artillery, cavalrj", and infantry in action are magnificently reproduced. The story tells ot the cowardly eon of a fireeatmfr old colonel who curses the day heaven made him the father/of a craven, and enlists in the son's place. ; There is much of pathos, as well as thrilling, m £v< production. EVERYBODY'S. Much discussion has arisen out of the big situation in the Ince-Triangle dramatic picture "The Golden Claim," which is being screened daily at Everybody's this week. The artistic acting <?J-n • ? ess \° ? arrii *ale and Mr. Frank "Mills make the situation so real that one involuntarily asks what one would do under similar' circumstances. The whole story is so cleverly evolved to an unex pelted climax that tho attention does not flag from beginning to end. The other pictures shown are also good.' The programme will bo screened again. to-day and to-inorrow. • \ .

CROOKED TO THE END. Mack Bennett, \tlio producer of the Keystone-Triangle comedies, whose "Submarine Pirate" broke new ground/is said to have gone one better in "Crooked to tho End," ivhic'h will l>e screened as.the star picture on next :.week's programme at Everybody's Theatre. Fred Mace, Vho has hail a wide experience of "knockabout" comedy both on the stage and screen, is in the lead, and he' and his fellow artists are said to have taken tremendous risks to life and limb in evolving a remarkable combination .of -thrills and laughs—railway collisions, tram smashes, iuotor-car accidents, and allwith the sole purpose of laughter. An excellent supporting programme has been arranged. EMPRESS THEATRE. ''Rags" will bo withdrawn from the. Empress Theatre on Saturday night.- It is a drama. of 'originality and dramatic strength out of the. common. The blending of pathos and humour being so well arranged that smiles and tears alternate.' Aliss Pickford, as "Rags," the little waif, into whose lilc came a great romance, is inimitable; and her magnificent performance will be long remembered. . "THE UIl AG ON," On Monday the Empress Theatre will: screen the five-part 'World Equitable film. "The Dragon," a drama of powerful social signific.~«i?.c. ''The Dragon" is a 6ymbol for the excesses of a certain type of rich man whose influence spreads through the.life of a oifcy,.and creates a perverted state of mind amting the weak who listen, but who'never reason. The plot hiijges on the adventures' of a young girl, on a vacation from a convent, where sho has lived from infancy, and who clandestinely sets out to seek her mother who has. been; lured from her father's home. She escapes the many traps and temptations, by sheer-force of innocence. One of the big scenes in the play takes i>lace in the most fashionable millinery emporium of, New York, where munnikius parade-in the latest gowns, for the edifi. cation of intending' purchasers.

PHOTO. DRAMA OP CREATION. A large audience witnessed the presentation of the second part of the Creation drama in ' tho 1 Concert . Clamber last' night. Eaoli one received a free printed copy in full of the lectures which ex* plained the pictures. "The Life of Christ" will be presented to-uight.