ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2985, 24 January 1917, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

"SUNDAY," TO-NIGHT. To-night at tho Grand Opera House the Royal Dramatic Company will present tlie stirniiy comeu'y-draina "Sunday," with the' company's new leading lady, Hiss Madge Wunees ill tho title role, m which she had btcu receiving favourable comment in the South Island. Who is very youug, and the part is oue catling for great resource in the actress, but Miss Surtees appears to be equal to all the demands maue upon her. Her interpretation of tile role lias received high commendation from southern critics, and her work here will bo studied with interest. Miss Surtees received her training in a good school—the late Lewis Waller's company. She will be supported by Mr. Ronald ltiley, iu the dual characters of Colonel and Arthur Brinthorpe; Air. Colville Dunn, as Brinthorpe's friend; Miss Beatrice Esmond as Mrs. Naresby; ll'iss Mildred Carlton, as the Nun; and Messrs. Gerald Hareourt, C. B. Tltrosby, Fred Coape, and George Hewlett, as Sunday's guardians, Lively, Towser, Davy, and Jpcky respectively. The season is a brief ono. "Sunday" will be followed by the popular attraction, iu the smart, wholesome comedy, "The Fortune Hunter." The booking of seats is moving apaco at tho Bristol, where some good central seats are still available. Day sales at ordinary night prices are" obtainable at the Grand Opera House Sweet Shop. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The programme submitted at His Majesty's Theatre'this week is one of the most varied and without doubt one of the best that has been submitted for some time past. A most sensational and hair-raising item is that, of the Staigs in the "globe of death." In this latticed steel globe, 18ft. in diameter, tho Staiga (brother and sister) achieve marvellous feats on bicycles and motor cycles. The Arleys put on a romarkable, balancing item, and tho performance 'of a St. Vitus dance while standing on his head balanced in tho air on a pole supported, on his brother's shoulders is a thrilling act. Tho Do Bakers, poseurs, Reg. Newberry, the boy soprano, the Caleys, Scotch comedians, and tho Flemmiiigs,aqrobats, complete the bill. THE KING'S THEATRE. Clara Kimball Young, in "Tho Com-' mon Law," is being screened twice daily. There is no abatement in the attendances. It is. anticipated that in addition to the records at the Empress this picture will not go far short of a fresh record for the King's. On Saturday there will be presented a Triangle play, with W. S. Hart in the role of a road agent, who is called upon to reform a town of doubtful and dangerous character. — ! EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. Wm. H. Thompson, who has the role of the lighthouse-keeper in "The Eye of the Night," a very fine Triangle play now showing at Everybody's, will, by a coincidence, be seen next week as the dour old Scotch uncle of Biilie Burke, in "Pffigy." Reports come from Auckland of the large attendance attracted by the bewitching Biilie. In this Incodirected picture, "Peggy" is said to have even exceeded the records put up by Clara Kimball, Young in "The Common Law." , THE EMPRESS. With Charles Chaplin, in tho "Mutual" comedy, 'The Count," tho au-r diences at the Empress aro kept laughing every minute of the . picture. 'While the high-salaried Charles is undoubtedly the real source of the fun, the beautiful Edila Furviance, and big, fierce Brie Maxon are entitled to praise for their supporting. work. The splendid Wall Street drama, "Friday £he 13th," is regarded as one of the best of the World productions shown here. Saturday's cliange will show Miss Alice Brady in a photo play based on the celebrated opera "La Boheme." \ •