ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2843, 7 August 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

TIVOLI FOLLIES.

The Grand Opera House was .packed to tho back wail on Saturday evening, when the Tivoli Follies Pantomimo Company gave another of its delightful performances. Everything went with a swing from start to finish. Gcorgo Welch, Jack Cannot, Walter Weoms, Miss Vera Pearce, jVl'iss Theliua .Raye, Miss Jean Keith, and that lovely singer, Miss iillii Caspers, delighted an enthusiastic audience. There will be a complete change of numbers on Wednesday evening next—a second edition of tho Follies. This will include the continuation of tile orchestral extravaganza, with George Welch, the disgruntled conductor (who is dismissed for drunkenness in Che present entertainment) as the occupant of a box while the actual show is taking place, anil Billy Rego (alios Oscar) as an impressionable college youth in the opposite l>ox. Their remarks as tho sliuiv progresses are said to be screamingly funny. Miss Caspers sings new Bongs almost every night. Her perfect singing of "The Rosary" and "Coming Home" will be remembered, atf . long as anything in the Tollies' till. Miss Pearce and Miss Raye will all have bright new number?, and the Belginns will also change their tune. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Vaudeville and musical comedy combined will make the new programme at His Majesty's Theatre highly entertaining this week. The musical travesty to be presented by Mr. Bert La Blanc is entitled ".In 01(1 Seville,' and it is said a moro humorous, nnd at the same time Vnelodious, one act in its selections of ballets and vocal numbers, has rarely been seen in AVellington. Messrs. Bert La Blanc and Jake Mack, as two peripatetic. Yiddishers, in the home of toreadors and fruit, can be relied upon to keep the audience in merry mood. The New York Comedy Pour, Carlton Chase, and Alaud Miles will all submit latest vocal successes ,and Marcel auil Fallon will present the latest in terpsichoreau evolutions. The whole production is lavishly staged, and delightful new ballets are to bo introduced by tho Pony Ballet. Among the now artists who will malto their debut in tbo vaudeville half or the bill are David. Urquhart, Abie Barker, and Jean Clyde, who wcro last seen here as principals in "Bunty Pulis the Strings." This clever trio will bo seen.in a sketch entitled "Sandy's Wedding Present." Ritchie and Kleftio will also appear for the first time, and the remainder of the programme will include king and Thornton, Mart' and Evans, and ftina Alix. There is to be a matinee 011 Wednesday. KING'S THEATRE. A chango lin the order of affairs'was made at tho King's Theah'6 on Saturday, the weekly chango being givon then instead ol to-day, as has been tile procedure in tiie past. An' interesting and varied programme was submitted, and the principal attraction was an abbreviated pictiirisation of the" historic novel A lale ol Two Cities," by Charles Uickens. The picture dealt mostly with the time before tho I'rench 'Resolution, and snowed/ how the Marquis St. EvorinonL of France treated his people, and flow he was haled by them. On one occasion he had a girl brought to his honic, and when a man broke into the place the Marquis killed him. Ho called in a. doctor, mid while ho was examining the dead man, the girl also died. The doctor roluscd to keep tho secret, so he was captured and thrown into tho Bastille of the Marquis's castle. The doctor's .disappearance caused his wife's death, and his baby daughter looked after by a lawyer. As the daughter grows up she is unknowingly loved by one Sydney Cart-on, who afterwards dies for her husband. Tho husband Is a nephew of the Marquis, who has given his fortune to the people, and sworn not to follow in tho footsteps of tho Marquis and tho general aristocracy. He meets tlip' daughter 011 his way to England, jind eventually marries her. A t;hild is killed by'the Marquis's'carriage 60011 after tho marriage, and that night the Marquis is stubbed while asleep, and then starts the great revolution. Tho Marquis's nephew is recalled from England, and whon he arrives in France is seized; by tho people,' who do not know he is really one of tliem, and is sentenced to the guillotine. Then comes Maurice Cost'ello as Sydney Carton in a powerful finish, and by bribing the gaol-keoper ho takes tho nephew's place and carries out his part riglit to tho end. Tho supporting programmo is a strpiijf one, ana contains a scenic of Capo Town, the_ Ganmont Graphic, and a Lubia comic entitled The. New Waiter." 1

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. Tho new programme shown' at Everybody's on Saturday is one of the best yet seen at this theatre. The star piclure, "The Eagle's Nest," is a Lubia six-reel drama, featuring those two wellknown and popular artists, Edwin Arden and Romaine Fielding. It is a picture full of sensational happenings and excitement from start to finish. The story mainly deals with tho wild days< when the long emigrant trains trekked _ to the Western 'mining country of America. A great battle with tho Indians, and a terrible massacre of emigrants, revpals tho dangers of life in the early days of the history of that country. This picturehas boon taken among gorgeous scenery, and derives its name from the fact that on the cliff above the hut -wherein a great deal of the action takes place there is a nest of young eagles. The climax of the drama is one-of the most enthralling and cxciting ever attempted or achieved. The popular Gaumont Gazette and Mutt and Jetf in an aeroplane are also two good subjects on the programme. EMPRESS THEATRE. The change of programme presented at tho Empress Theatre on Saturday, made a decided hit. The dramatic feature, "Youth," is all absorbing Vitagraph drama with a stirring appeal to .women. Harold Harcourt, a rich sculptor, employs Elena, Ins wife, as bis model, and she lends inspiration to many beautiful pieces of statuary.. But a few. years later, while striving for the great prize, a statue of "Youth," ho finds Elena ljicks that indefinable "something" winch spells youth. Without regard for her feelings he frankly tells her she "is too old, and when lone, a yung girl, visits them, he sees in he.v the perfect model for his greatest work. The inevitable follows, and Elena, lief'heart breaking, watches the growing fascination of her husband and lone. Julian, a. 'former suitor, comes into lier lil'e, and tempos her to leave her husband, but repels him. Eventually the husband's conscience awakes, he makes honourable amends, smashes the work of art he has created, in. expiation, and secures ms wife's 'forgiveness. Another feature is "The Bright Lights," a Triangle-Key-stone comedy, in which Mabel iMormand, Roscoc Arbucklo, and a host of minor characters are riotously funny. Scenes around Braemar, Scotland, and the lopical Gf.zettc, complete a fascinating programme.'

CROWN THEATRE. The feature at the Crown Theatre to-, night will be Sir Cbas. L. Yoiuig s dramatic success, ".Tim the Penman. Ihe picture introduces the stage star, John Mason. The .story tells of James llalston, who lives a highly respected liio with his wife Nina. He is noted lor liis extensive charities, and none but the mail liimself and his partner, Barou Hartfield, l;now that James ltalston is one and the same as the notorious "Jim the Penman," whose nefarious proceedings are alarming the business worlds of ,two ' continents by his forgeries. Kalston's best friend, Louis Percival, has suil'ered most at his liands, Ralston's forgeries having separated J/onis from his fortune and from Nina, Ralston's wife, who, previous to her marriage, had been engaged to Louis. Ralston decides to withdraw from his old lifo of crime and begin anew, and "just when he thinks he is safe the net begins to close about him. How Ralsion'o perfidy is discovered, how the two old lovers again meet, how Kalston skilfully evades bis would-be cantors, his terrific struggles' with his old partner in crime. Baron Hartfield, and his dramatic death, 'bring the tense play to a powerful climax. ' "JAKE .SHORE." It is a' far cry from Joan of Arc to Jane Shoro, yet probably no two women havo had.a greater influence on the world's history. Lured by the beckoning linger of ambition, Jane Sljorc left her domestic fireside to become the mistress of Edward IV. Of strong person-

ality, sho immediately becamo embroiled in political intrigue, and had the court of England in a turmoil of plot and counterplot, unequalled until tho days of Elizabeth. Her brilliant love story had the inevitable end in the implacable anno of violent death, but she had lived every moment of her life. It was sho who precipitated the fateful "War of the Boses," and her name will always bo associated with one of the most dreadful tragedies of tliq age. The whole story will be presented in picture form at the Town Hall C6ncert Chamber on Wednesday next, for a season of fivo nights only. It is claimed for tho picture that its setting and dressing, apart from the strong interest of the story, are absolutely exceptional. The box plan is now open at tho Bristol. Over 5000 people are in the production, and 250 beautiful scenes are depicted on the screen. SUNDAY CONCERT. Another delightful programme was provided at His Majesty's Theatre last evening' by the Professional Orchestra, thero being a. large number present. The overture rendered by tho whole orchestra was "Der Freischutz," by Weber, and presented an 4 opera in condensed form. .Following was a suite "Egyptian Ballet," by Luigim, and containing allegro noil troppo, affegreTto, andante sostenuto, and andante allegro. A fantasia, "Cavalleria Eustieana, " TTy Jlascagni, was followed by two pieces, "To the' Spring" and "Serenade," and. finally by a beautiful Hungarian rhapsody by Liszt. The pioce was treated iu excellent manner by' the orchestra.