ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2941, 29 November 1916, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

"ARE YOU A MASON?" "Are You a Mason?" is proving to bo an c-ven better entertainment than the very creditable first performance on Saturday evening. The action has been brisked, up as the players became easy in their roles, and tho performance now given is well worth seeing by those who enjoy good farce-comedy, and they are legion. The performances of Messrs. P. Coape, Ronald Riley, and Dunn are capital, and Miss Beatrice Esmond, as the firm, suspicious wife of a cheery old fraud, is admirable. The show deserves well of the public. Tho management of the Returned Soldiers' Club has been presented with about two hundred full passes for the returned boys from the management of the company. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. There is a rare variety of talent of good quality to be seen at His Majesty's this week. Tho Dick and Dorothy Trio of expert American dancers are a slick team, who are very accomplished in that "intimate" form- of dancing that' includes such terpsicharean extravafances as "turkey trots," "bunny ugs," and "Texas Tommies," and are vitally entertaining the whole time they arc in the spot light. Miss Dorothy Hams sings comic ragtime songs with naivete, and Miss Margaret Jewell and Miss Edith Cowley' contribute ballads of a better class than is usually heard in vaudeville. KING'S THEATRE. Several interesting films, all of them well, worth seeing, are being shown at the King's Theatre this week. The premier position is occupied by tho Triangle ■ fine arts drama, "The Payment," featuring Bessie Barriscaile, the celebrated emotional actress, and William Desmond. The story deals with the ambitions of a country girl who aspires to fame and fortune. After many hardships she decides to make compromises with the established moral laws. Aided by the help of a generous but unscrupulous man, she succeeds, but at a price. Later, meeting a man she loves, her distorted ideas of social life come' back to their true focus, and she is brought •face to face with the awfulness of her payment, and the greatest problem of her life. Other pictures of note are "Mas Joins tile Colours," Max Tender's latest sketch: "Patho Gazette," and "Motor Polo." EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. At Everybody's this week the British Film Company present England's popular actor, Henry Ainley. in Sir Arthur Pinero's famous play, "Sweet Lavender," a picture full of stirring episodes. The film adaptation covers eveiy essential pliase of the play, and as a result of the artistic acting of the. principals the picture is one of the most successful of its type seen for some time past. The role of Lavender is played by that clever actress. Alma Taylor. The main portion of the film is decidedly dramatic, but there is a welcome vein of humpur. _ A Very fine instructive story is told in the picture, entitled "Animals in the Nursery Stage," whioh shows many of the everyday domestic pets in the earlier stages ,of their existence. A Keystone come'dy, "The Judge," 20110 feet of laughs, also the Melbourne Cup of 1916; support the star item. THE EMPRESS. "The Ne'er-do-AVell" and his forcible reformation has been the themo of many a bright story, not forgetting Rex Bench's masterpiece. "The Incorrigible Dnkane," showing .at the Empress, is a new and sparkling version of the story of the prodigal heir to millions, and in its own free and easy fashion is full of good things. Jimmy Dukane, junior, from his life of reckless mischief-mak-ing in the smart set, is suddenly plunged into trouble of the blackest sort, and finds himself with a long-handled shovel bofore the. concrete mixer near the huge dam which his father's company is constructing. "You'll work till your back is broken in three places," says the foreman to the new arrival, and this is precisely the impression' Jimmy gets of his job. _ However, ho keeps his nerve in working order, and with the aid of cheorful impudence and resourcefulness he ex-. poses a well-laid-plot, and tho romance ends in tho approved happy fashion. A delicious Keystone comedy, ."The Lovo ; Riot," "Cadcnabbia," scenic, and a Gaumont Topical Budget complete the list. QUEEN'S THEATRE. Order is being rapidly ovolved from the inevitable chaos whoi'o ■ building operations are concerned, at the new "Queen's Theatre," in Cuba Street. It is now possible to judjo with soi>«» accuracy of tho comfort and convenience of this latest addition to the ranks of pioturcdom, and in no' particular has anything been left undone to make tho cosy theatre as. up-to-date and attractive in its essentials as it is possiblo to make it. Every little detail that will tend to tho comfort of "pat, rons has been carefully seen to, and the whole Hchemo of tho building is at the same time most artistic and pleasing. The opening production, with a special programme, which will include two star programme, has been fixed for Monday, December 4. Popular prices will be charged, and the box plan is now open at' the Bristol. HARMONIC SOCIETY." The AVellington Harmonic Society, under the conductorship of Mr. H. Temple White, will appear in a miscellaneous concert at the Town Hall (Concert Chamber), on Saturday evening. These concerts are eagerly looked for by an increasing number of musiclovers, and the coming ono promises to eclipse all'previous efforts. The society will be assisted by Miss Agnes Segriof, contralto; Miss Phyllis Hanify, solo pianist; and Private S. Laslett Exton, tenor. A very largo audience is expected, as the box- plan at tho Bristol is rapidly filling. \