ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2986, 25 January 1917, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

4 ■ HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. A most' thrilling act by the Staigs (brother and sister) is! the principal item on the bill at His Majesty's Tnefitre this week. Inside a latticed steel ball, 18 teet in diameter, the two perform the most daring bicycle tricks that could be imagined. Another good item is that of the Arleys, who introduced some clever pole balancing. The De Bakers, poseurs,! the Caleys, comedians, Eeg. Newberry, the boy soprano, Alsace, musician, provide other good turns.' x THE ICING'S THEATRE. Wonderful success continues to attend the screenings of "The Common Law" at both the matinee and evening performances. The management, in commencing the last two days (it finishes to-morrowj, wish to impress upon those desirous ot seeing this master picture, the fact thr/t seats may' be reserved at the Bristol or by 'phone Nos. 50 or 3143. Saturdays change will be headed by a virile Triangle drama, starring W. S. Hart, and a Keystone comedy, called Iho burt Girl," with a particularly enticing bevy of bathing beauties. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. The Triangle play, "The Eye of the Night," has been'well patronised at all sessions. There are some splendid scenes in the Suez Canal shown in tlie Gaumont Graphic, and Frank Daniels succeeds in - raising much laughter in one of b.s clever comedies. on Saturday morning the one and only Billie Burke will start a season winch promises to prove remarkably successful. In Auckland "Billie" has eclipsed the attendance record put up by Clara, Kimball Young in' "Tho Common Law. To do the 'same thing in this city will be' a remarkable- performance indeed. THE EMPRESS THEATRE. •; Chaplin in "The Count" is making.vast crowds of old and young people laugh and grow fat, and is placing considerable strain on the seats at the Empress: "Friday the 13th," Lawson's powerful story of Wall Street ("the street with a graveyard at ono end and a river at the other"), is worthily upholding the dramatic siilo of the programme. Commencing on Monday tho favourite world star. Alice Brady, will bo seen as Mini.' iii Murger's famous play. "La vie de Bohemc." Special music on tho Vox Humana organ is promised. SATURDAY'S ORGAN RECITAL. Tho city organ recitals will bo Tesumed on Saturday next, after a long break through the- illness of Mr. Pago, and the hall being engaged. Lno City Organist has selected in b.s programme two new works, one by Moussougsky's A Tear" and • "Meditation," and Borowski's "First Suite for Organ" (prelude Toccata. Meditation, Elcgio,'and .Marcho Solennelle). The other works for this recital have been well chosen: Debussy's Prelude from "La Demoiselle Elue and "L'Enfant Prodiguo," Beethoven s overture "Coriolan," Rimsky-Korsakoff's Third Movement from "Scheherazade" ("Suite Symphoniciuo" for.orchestra), and the "Finals in B Flat" by Cesar Franck, which, in the oninion of Liszt, nniks beside tho masterpieces ol hebutfan Bach. "