ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2849, 14 August 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATKE.

Another vory tempting change of programme is announced lor this popular house this week. The Bert Le Blanc Travesty Stars, who have built up a wonderful reputation in Adelaide, will be 6een in a third Travesty production, "The Gay Mrs. Cohn." This is said to eclipse the company's previous efforts. It will be presented at the special Wednesday bargain matinee. It is a highly spectacular production, and is screamingly funny. It also embraces a number of cleverfy conceived features, including the floral ballet, the dance of the Irish colleens, the Chinese ballet, the Scotch lassie parade, fun in Levis's drapery store. Specialities will be contributed by Maud Miles, Bert Le Blanc, Jake Mack, New York Comedy Four, Carlton Chase, Marcell and Fallon, and the Pony Ballet. The programme of vaudeville will comprise a complete change by the popular Buuty Comedy Company, who delighted everybody who saw thorn'last-week. Connor and Witt, two American comedy entertainers, Campbell and Walker, comedy jugglers, and Kitchie and Kiiftie, the superhuman acrobatic duo. The same programme will prevail throughout the week. . "THE ALL-RED ROUTE." "What do they know of England who only England know f" was the apte6t quotation that occurred to the writer as the finely illustrated track between Australia and iS'ew Zealand was spread out before the public that attended the King's Theatre on Saturday afternoon and evening. It is only a wonder that this route, known to the world as "The All-Red Route," has not been pictured so attractively before, as it has soundly 'educative qualities, in that it teaches tho lesson of Empire to voung and old. tells in the space of one hour, vividly and picturesquely, what the average schoolboy would take a year to absorb, and shows the wonders of England's dominions overseas in a most interesting and instructive manner. The picture commences with the departure of the operator, from Sydney, several city, harbour, and sea-beach views of that alluring port being shown. Later the Niagara is seeii "shipping it green'' over her bows as she plunges Aucklandwards. From Auckland on to Fiji, where one smells the, tropics for the first time; Honolulu, the pearl of the Pacific, with its palm-fringed lawns and streets and its'peerless (Waikiki) bathing beach; next Victoria! 8.C., and: from there up the Sound to Vancouver, an amazingly fine city for its age; then seats are taken on a C.P.I!. express, and in a few moments the train is snorting its way into the heart of the Rockies, where the grandeur of the mountain and lake scenery is -wonderfully awe-inspiring in its grim majesty. Then ever the prairies to Winnipeg, Fastern Canada —Montreal, Quebec, and Toronto—fino views of tho Niagara Falls, a hurried trip down the St. Lawrence, then Liverpool (England), and finally London'. The latter part of tho picture was'disappointing, on account of the unexpected flight from the Falls to busy Liverpool. The programme also included a good little drama, in miniature', "The Unwritten Play," ' the Gauroont Graphic, some striking Alpine views, and a Tatlier stupid comedy.

■ EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. At noon on Saturday a new programme was presented at Everybody s Theatre the leading feature being a five-act drama, entitled "The Raiders." It is a powerful'story of the stock exchange, H. B. Warner and Dorothy Dalton in the leading parts. The picture concerns some highly exciting commercial plotting, which is frustrated by the ingenuity and pluck of a young junior clerk (B. B. Warner). This broker's clerk falls in love with his employer's daughter. Haldeman, the- broker, goes away for a brief rest, leaving his affairs in the hands of another broker, Burns,, who at once sohemes to ruin Haldeman. The clerk, having overheard Burns's echcnus, manages,', just in time, to 1 save his employer from ruin, and by so doing wins the hand of Dorothy, Haldeman's daughter. The picturo finishes with a situation of rare power. One of the supporting films (which are first-class) gives the story-of- the-Postal Department-<at-the front. This is a- particularly interesting film. It shows the unloading of tho mails from the' steamer, on the road to the front, and the distribution of the letters in the front-line trenches under firo. There are several other pictures, including tho "Ganmont" Graphic," .and a Lubin comedy, entitled "Otto tho Artist." EMPEESS THEATRE. Owing to the late arrival of the mail, the management of the Empress Theatre was unable to screen tho World Eilni Company's big attraction, "Sealed Lips,' on Saturday, and the feature was reI placed by the London Film Company's story,'"The Third Generation," a five-act play which made a splendid stop-gap. The supporting programme wa3 welt chosen. To-day an entirely new programme will bo shown, with ' Sealed Lips" as the star attraction. It is reported to be the most effective .photoplay that the Equitable-World Film Co. has produced. The plot hinges on a crime by a young minister who allowed an innocent friend to he sentenced to a long term of imprisonment, thus plunging many, young lives; into a-maze of distressing ' circumstances. Eventually the minister -.makes reparation, and the lives of those who suffered are felicitously brightened. . < "JANE SHORE." . To-night is the last opportunity which will bo afforded the Wellington public of witnessing the gorgeous picture film production, f Mane. Shore" at the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall. Beyond doubt the picture is of a splendour seldom witnessed, and unfolds an enthralling story; rich with romantic incident. The sympathy of the audience is drawn out fully-when Jane Shore is pictured .walking through the snow amid the jeering crowds to her death. ■ , SUBMARINE PICTURES. The value of -kinematography in the pursuit of -scientific knowledge and investigation is incalculable, a fact which has .been impressed on the minds of people throughout the world who liavo witnessed the remarkable submarine pictures; which are to be presented by Messrs. W. and F. Williams at the Town Hall on Thursday evening next. What' lies and lives • beneath the, mighty ocean is faithfully and realistically unfolded by means of this pictorial record of a hundred-mile journey under the ocean. , The Williamson Bros., the inventors and originators of submarine pictures, have, by means of a speciallyconstructed device, been able to take activo moving-picturcs of the uuder-water world, including scenes of marine forests and' beautiful '-submarine ; gardens, which excel in grandeur >i tropical landscape. Shoals of v.-c.ii.-ioijking fish are seen swimming about ;.:i'.orig the coral caverns, and are even r.H 'i nibbling the bait from a fishing-smite:.-. Shipwrecks are explored, and u diver is seen at work fifty feet below the su'.'ia'.'c of the sea. [Natives diving auii recovering coins from the ocean bottom are clearly and distinctly viewed, and a magnificent sunset effect'hinder the water baffles description; interspersed are many thrilling incidents amongst the sharks, the tigers of tho deep, and a fight between man and shark is enacted within a few feet of the undcr-wutcr camera. By letters and articles in the American and English Press, leading scientists and educationalists urge everybody to witness the submarine pictures. Dig box puui opens at tho Bristol to-morrow morning.