ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2859, 25 August 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

"SAN TOY." "San Toy," the popular comic opera which is being produced by tho Wellington .Amateur Operatic Society at the Grand Opera House, is having" a very successful run, good audiences still being the rule. As tho season lias progressed practico has made perfect, and the general swing of the production is much appreciated. Tho opera is undoubtedly a credit to all concorned. Tho last "two nights are announced, and to-morrow night the curtain will fall on one of tho most successful efforts ever put. forward by the society. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. A .vaudeville bill of high merit is be. i.ng provided at His Majesty's' Theatre this week. Bert La Blano and his company of funmakers present a good ftirco in "In Watts.". Tho humour is genuine, and the audience is continually laughing at tho drollery of ho. Blanc unil Tako Mock. Several good songs are given by Misses Maud Miles and Nellio Fallon tnd tho supporting ballet. In the otbet lialf of the entertainment, a comedysketch of Scotch life is very capably acted by players from the Graham Moffat Company, Messrs. David Urquhart and ,Abe Barker and Miss Jean Clvdo, The «kotch is one deserving of good applause, find last night's audienco was favourably impressed by its quality, Connor find Witt succeeded in making themselves still more, popular with their songs "of Ireland. The La Tours are very capable jugglors, and Campbell and Walker are also good.

THE KING'S THEATRE.. "The Rosary," the Selig feature Him, ha* had a most successful eeason in Wellington, and a largo audience is anticipated, for to-night, the last screening at the picture at the King's Theatre. Tho Pathe Gazette is the only other film shown. "JEALOUSY." Miss Bessie Barriscale, the clevet American actress, has attained a largo .measure of popularity with picturegoers for her, natural yet vigorous anting in such pictures as "The Golden Claw," "Bullets and Brown Eyes," and other Triangle feature films, but it is' claimed that she has never done better work than in the part of the jealous wife of a fashionable physician in the latest Ince-Trianglo offering, "Jealousy," or "The Green Swamp," to be screened at the King's Theatre to-morrow afternoon and evening. The picture has re. ceived very high praise for the lavishness of production, excellent acting, and novel story.' EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. The final screening of the excellent programme now being shown at Everybody's will be given to-night. The star feature is an All-British five-reel drama, "Iris," featuring Henry Ainley and Alma Taylor. At noon to-morrow a new programme will be presented, when the star feature will he a Vitagraph fourreel drama, "Tfie Sins of the Mothers," with Anita Stewart and Earle AVillinms in the leading roles. T.ke ! story deals with Anita's mother (Julia'Swayne Gor. don) ; who runs a society gambling house. Anxious that her daughter shall -never, learn the vice, she sends her to a convent to be educated, but the inborn taint comes out, and in the years that follow a husband (Earle Williams) fights to save his honour and his young wife from tho gambling fever. . • . EMPRESS THEATRE. . "Five Nights" will be withdrawn from the. Empress Theatre after to-night's screening. . Victoria Cross has written several novels that have been adapted for the screen, but none have equalled "Five Nights" for cumulative interest. To-morrow "My Valet" will be the star feature. It is a comedy-drama, featuring the versatile Mabel Normand, who will have the assistance of Mack Sennett, Raymond Hitchcock, ■"and a numerous cast of .Triangle comedians. [ The plot turns on the fact that the master nWt valet change, positions, in order to relieve the master of a betrothal mado between him and another infant, at the time of their birth, by their respective parents. '•; Tho complications which ariso keop the audience screaming with delight. A big dramatic programme Is added., HORACE GOLDIN.. Hugh D. M'lntosh, who has lately met with. big success through New Zealand with his Tivoli Follies, is to introduce Horace Goldin,, the Royal Russian illusionist, who opens at the Grand Opera House on Wednefeday next for eight nights, and will present a series.of mystifying illusions to the number of 100, in GO minutes. The balance of. his timo will be taken in. presenting his great masterpiece,', "The .Tiger God," a Moorish mystery, written by himself, and performed by his chief assistant. Miss Bar-, bara Babington and 35 auxiliaries. Thu magician juggles with a live Bengal tiger, providing a thrilling climax to a sensational illusion.- (Many other .star 'acts are promised, including Menetti and Sedelli, who are said by Sydney critics to be the most daring knockabout comedians seen for many, days; Marie King Scott, "that country girl, who talks, sings, and dances," has made a big hit in Australia, and other newcomers here will include Bill Pruit, the cowboy -Caruso, a novel singing act; Hay and' Crawford, simultaneous stepping sisters; ■ and Gosward, the French musical clown. In .all, it is a great double bill, and is expected to draw theatregoers who already know the calibre of the M'lntosh circuit. The box plan is to open at the Bristol on Monday morning. • . LAND." Wide interest is being taken in the forthcoming reproduction of "Sunset Land," by Miss Gladys Campbell and her clever pupils. The performance is to be held at the Grand Opera House on Tuesday evening next, and will be lavishly produced as previously. Miss Campbell has received many notifications of appreciation . and gratification • that the people of Wellington. are to have Rnother chance.of witnessing the delight ful' play. Those who have not yet seen will no doubt book their seats at once. They will then seo for themselves what

,in excellent production "Sunset Land" is. The bos" plau is open at the Bristol. Tho prices of admission arc nominal, and it lias neon decided to. admit children to the dress circle and stalls at half-price. The proceeds arc in aid of the Countess of Liverpool l'uiid. "THE BIRTH 01'' A NATION." This morning, at the Bristol, the. box plans will be opened i'or the nine nights and matineo of "Tho Birth of a Nation"'' season, commencing at the main Town Hall on Tuesday next, August 89, at 8 p.m., under tho J. C. Williamson management. "The Birth of a Nation*' will be told in a spectacular kinematographic, drama. Them aro pages in which the audience, will bo told in u series of comprehensive scenes of America's* Civil War —that fearful struggle, for the mninlx'.ianee of great principles. There wjll h* shown pages darkened . with pictured narratives of class and racial hatred, of unrighteous ilesirc3 and ambition, the division or friends and familca of oppression, and of tho loss of dear ones. But there also arif pages illumined by patriotism and sacrifico to cause, by tho valour of men on both sides, by tho triumph of tho principlo'of freedom, and finally of restoration of national unity This groat Griffith drama, bawd on the Bp.t. Thomas Dixon's book. "The Clansman," will bo made additionally absorbing by the charming scenes of Southern country life, and of old-lashioutd mansions, by the appropriate music, lnvish dressing, aud by two sweet romances, in which the lovers, parted by tlio strife, at Inst find common cause against the orgies of the negroes of the Sonth, who had been unbalanced by success, and had been misled.bv unscrupulous politicians of tho North. The battlefield scenes ara said to bp particularly realistic, the on-, looker viewing miles of entrenchment- of the opposing armies, masked batteries in the distant hill?, the approach of reinforcements, the work of the gunners., and the charges and counter-charges of infantry and cavalry. One of tho battles extended into the night, and the Hashing of the batteries, the blood-rod smoky pall from the blazing- countryside, and the deadly clash of arms are spread in a panorama before the atidience iw though viewed from a bill. There are 5000 scones In Hie production, and as it takes the whole to screen, thts great picture, the management request that all natrons will obligo by boingseated at 8 o'clock sharu, so as net to miss any of the introductory scones.. The music, which is a feature of the production, will be played by a operatic orchestra. Only «no tonlineo will "bo given during the season here namely, on .Saturday, Rentimber S. wnon children will be admitted at half-price.

FBBNCH FIGHTING FRONT. To-night at the Town Hall and on Saturday the Frenoh official war pictures taken by the French Government for historical records will be shown. The pictures are said show every branch of the huge French army in a 400-niile line of trenohes which reaches from Ypres to Verdun, and- from Verdun to Bolfort. Heroes aro shown braving the dangers of the air in thoir light craft, and as they reconnoitre the enemy's Hnesi antiaircraft guns spit their missiles all around them. Some beautiful pictures are those taken from ae aeroplane above Albert and St. Eloi. Thero are some fino pictures of the Spahis, of the trenches, explosions of bomb and shell over, tjje trench of the Bosches, and, finally, ft picture of the Germans emerging from their trenches with their hands up in surrender, stumbling towards the French lilies. Mr. Charles Blake has been specially engaged to recite Henry tho Fifth's great oration. \