ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2840, 3 August 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATIiE. LaTgo audiences are visiting His Majesty's Theatre this week, tho principal attraction beiug Bert Lo Blanc's Musi«uL Travesty Stars, who putter amusingly, and keep the audience in a merry mood. The farce is fresh and original, iiiul in parts is very pretty. Miss Nina Alix is a dashing soubrotte, who sings well. Other items aro the Two Kerlines, Geo. Dixon, Marr and Evans, ami the entertaining trio, Messrs. llupc'rt Drum and Chas. King and Miss Virginia Thornton.

THE KING'S 'THEATRE. Bright, uurucuvu acting uy .miss. Bessie ■U-.i-isciu;, unu Mv nuiuiui ucsuionu, combined wiui splendid production am, an interesting swiy, are tne uuistuimiug micures ot iu« star mm "jsuiiets mm jurowii jiyes" Miucu-is uc-ing snowu. at tue lung's Theatre tius weeK. xaa picture is attracting large' audiences lUg'uuy, uut owing to tiiu alteration in liju tmic-taolu or.me Curistonuron K-iiy service, tne season in Wellington w lu i/.i saorteued. me picture and tIK) excellent, varied supporting programme, will oe screened tu-jugnt and to-morrow nyiit, anu lor tne latii time ut tne matinee on Saturday aiternoou. The great uuvei picture, "'.me All Red icoute," iim ue iJOStpoueu_nil oaturuay, .august 1". A tine uriuiuuic rendering ul diaries .Dickens' immortal work, "a Tale of 'jwo Cities,"- and an nil-star programme id apcciany selected iiims will u« screened lor a weeic, comineiicing, Saturday uignt next. EVERYBOD Y'S THEATRE. The star picture on this week's prut{ru.u.iiiv; ai xituryuouy'ri Tueiiti'o is a proby tne Famous i.onuouTilm Co. BeauuTui' Euzabetn ltusuen is to ue ./seen as tne wait' in tne four-act uruma "Cnanty Ann," a picture mil ot patuos aiid-'scimng lfive scenes. 'A Tri-aiigic-lveystone production, "Tiio Jamtors Vlie's Temptation," ieaturing Tred aiace, is one oi tne Oust pictures tne Keystone Company have yet produced. Otnor good subjects supporting a strong programme arc: "Submarine Wuriare' and tne "Gaumont Urapmc." Patrons are reminded that tne programme will change on. Saturday next at noon, when tho "Eagle's JSest,". a Lubin six-reel drama, will he shown. EMPRESS THEATRE. To-morrow night will bo the last screening of the present attractive programme at tlio jiinpress Theatre, the star leature ot wmeu is the Vitagraph Company's drama, "Troin Out ot tne Big smews," nlmed amidst the most beautiful scenery in North-West Canada. Tho supporting programme is a strong one. uji Saturday morning a now programme will be produced. The starsubject will be "The Bright Lights," the latest laughing success of America and Australia.' Mabel Normanil and Tatty Arbucklo will play the leading roles, said to 1m the funniest they have yet played. Another star feature will be the four-act emotional play, "Youth," the story of an artist's wife. "JANE SHORE/' "Jane Shore," a romance'in tho court of England in • the -stormy days of the Wars of the Roses, is to be shown in pictiiro'form at the Town Hall Concert Chamber,"commencing next Wednesday, for a season of five nights only. In tho performance of "Jane Shore" figure armies of Edward IV and his enemies, armedt with pikes, spears, and crossbows. These masses of the fifteenth century infantry, buttressed by brave knights in armour, carrying lance and mace, and with their horses armour-clad, give the battles a splendid realism, the hand-to-hand fighting reviving tho glorious traditions of British chivalry. Apart from the battles, there is a sweet romance running through the picture, in which Edward IV endeavours to inveigle Jane snore to his castle, and thus cross swords with his great enemy Matiiow Shore. Ovev 5000 people take part in tho production, and two hundred and fifty scenes are shown. Tho.box plan opens at the Bristol on Snturday morning. "THE BIRTH OF A NATION." The great -historical picture, "The Birth of a Nation,'"' synchronising in a most attractive, and, at tho same time, a vitally interesting manner, the great crisis in tho history of ; tho United States that culminated in tho war between North and South, will lio shown for the first timo in New Zealand at the Town Hall on August 20 for a season of nino nights.