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ENTERTAINMENTS

THE SHAKESPEAREAN SEASON. The Allan Wilkie Company' played"Twelfth Night" last evening, and is playing it again to-night'. The performance is a notable success, and lias been on its two showings well received by really appreciative audiences. Indeed, the company has grown generally in favour as the season has advanced. "Twelfth Night" is a 'happy play, full of funny people, sparkling wit, farcical situations and laughter, and the Wilkie Company make the most of it. To-mor-row night the company will phij"Eomeo and Juliet." HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Quite the most pleasing" thing in the new programme at His Majesty's Theatre is the singing of Miss Dora Oberman, a, soprano who is making her first appearance here. Miss Oberman has a particularly good voice, 'and she sings songs the vaudeville public appreciate. The •most wonderful turn is that of Sully and Eenner, who are billed as acrobatic comedians. Bealljy there is little of the comedian about them, but they are remarkable acrobats. Their tumbling and throwing is excellent, and one of the pair caps the performance by (with the aid of his friend and a spring-board) loopiDg-the-loop m a most extraordinary way. The I'our Kings, a quartet of clever little girls, give an exhibition which is remarkably fine for children. Their work as acrobats is neat and cleverly executed. The newer artists included also "Tlie Eurasians," people of mystery. All sorts of things are made to appear and disappear, eggs are produced in scores from an empty hat, and a pound note, placed by one of the Spectators in an envelope, is discovered in a potato, which is taken from a, small box. Two "funny folk from 'Frisco," Stalir and Stalir, raise a great deal of merriment by humorous allusions (in song) to members of the audience. Among the other artists on the bill are Shipn and Gaffncy (comedians and dancers)", Grace Compton (descriptive balladist), The Newmans (comedy skit artists), Miss Jeanette Spellman (vocalist), Les Warton (coon impesipnator), and Lallie Brooke. . THE KING'S THEATRE. A picture that breaks new ground, both in story, and treatment, "A Child of the Paris Streets," is a tribute to both D. W. Griffith, the producer, and to Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Tully Marshall, and the others in a strong cast who interpret the unique and roalistic narrative of Parisian life in pre-war days. Tho careless free life of tho Latin quarters, where love, laughter, and carnival reign supreme, is shown in sharp contrast to the underworld, where'the cold-blooded, deadly Apache holds sway, and is a terror to all—his associates and his victims alike. The story as unfolded on the screen at the King's Theatre this week holds the undivided attention of the onlooker from first to last, tho action being rapid and intense,' and the acting is artistic and remarkably convincing. The other pictures shown are also excellent. There will be a matinee to-morrow afternoon. . EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. A Vitagraph. comedy-drama, entitled "Crooky," is the : star featuro of tho now programme now showing at Everybody's. Frank Daniels, an original stage comedian, is "Crooky," and ho plays tho part in k most capable manner. Tho story deals with Crooky, who escapes from prison and enters into high society, where lie has much ado to escape from the toils of ft designing old maid, who sees in the runaway convict her last chance. After an exciting and highly diverting term of freedom Crooky is run down by the police, preferring prison to matrimony, and.tho last scene of all shows him grinning at tho audience from behind the prison bars. Another good film is "Tho Turn of a Card," in which Harry , Money takes tho leading part. ■Therfe .'are'other excellent items on tho programme. EMPRESS ; , "Ear From tho Madding' Crowd" is attracting; capacity business. to-Ahe Empress Theatre. Baths'heba Evondene, ,who, lacking .understanding, inherits a farm, leaps into affluence in a day, to be wooed by men for tho sake of her worldly goods. About her has been woven a .beautiful love story, very human, very .sweet, full of happiness and pathos. Her marriage and its fearful results, till her husband is killed by a jealous neighbour, which paves the way for her second marriage to the man whose lovo had never faltered. It is exquisitely dramatised, and the picture leaves a wholesome impression on the mind of the spectator. The supporting programme is an excellent noe. "THE DIVINITY OF MOTHERHOOD." Perhaps at no other time in the history of the world- has there been more need for active propaganda against racial suicide, and it is doubtful if evor thero has been devised so powerful a preachment against this as embodied in tho picture, "Tho Divinity of Motherhood," screened for the first time in New Zealand at the Britannia Theatre yesterday before crowded houses. The fact that tho motivo of the battalion of known was proved by the battaion of perambulators and go-carts that filled the foyer of tho theatre 'yesterday afternoon, when tho auditorium was filled mainly by tho fair sex. Admittedly a dolicato subject it has been handled in a manner that no one can object to, and yet its irrefutable arguments could scarcely be presented to the public in a more artistic manner. In a word, it is a story of a selfishly childless married life, the selfishness of which is revealed to the young .wife in a dream. The dream pictures her. as leading a flighty childless existence, incompatible with tha noble ideals of wifehood. With no children to make the home like a home, the husband strays from the narrow path, and there is a divorce. The husband marries again, and this time there Is the laughter of children to'gladden the hours of his advancing years, and he mellows gradually in an atmosphere of love. But, what of the first wife? With Whitened hair and wrinkled face, sho faces the future alone—no children's prattle for her, no loving arms to soothe her careworn brow. And ' then in her dream comes a pretty child, who leads her through the paths of "Babyland," and in many a beautiful allegory shows her the only road to happiness. At length" she is hurled into flaming per. dition by inexorable fate—and then she wakes. • The picture is studded with many charming effects—angels, babies, and ' happy folk—but owing to the extreme delicacy of the subject it is Bcarcely a picture for the immature, One can only express tho hope that its mission—for it has one—may bo success, ful in New Zealand. "DR.. BILL." The popular comedy, "Dr. Bill," will be produced in the Concert Chamber of tiio Town Hall next Saturday mi behalf of the New Zealand Natives' Association. "Dr. Bill" is full of screaming laughter, and Mr-. Charles Blake states that the company will do full justice to the .comedy. There will be a full orchestra under Mr. Cuming, and" . the Natives' Association Band will play selections before the performance, under Lieut. Herd. The box plan opens at the Bristol to-morrow morning. The performance is under the patronage of His Excellency the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool. SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS. At tho Society of Musicians' concert, which takes place on Wednesday in the large Town Hall, the Danish baritone singer, Mr. Siguard Lestrup, will beheard in two of Amy Woodforde Findcn's songs. Mr. Lestrup has just returned from a visit to Auckland, where he made a great impression at the organ rectals given in tho Town Hall by Mr. Maug'han Barnett, the city organist.

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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2880, 19 September 1916, Page 3

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ENTERTAINMENTS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2880, 19 September 1916, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2880, 19 September 1916, Page 3

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