ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2987, 26 January 1917, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

' ROYAL DRAMATIC COMPANY. Tho Royal Dramatic Company gave another successful performance of "Sunday" at the Grand Opera Houso~~last evning. "Sunday" will be repeated tonight and to-morrow night. On Monday night the company will present the smart comedy, "The Fortune Hunter," by Winchel Smith, author of "Brewster's Millions." It is reported to he a pretty story, besides a merry one. Miss Madge Surtees plays the rote of Betly Graham. The box plan for "The Fortune Hunter" will be opened to-morrow. i HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Patrons of His Majesty's Theatre this week may witness the thrilling cycle act of the Staigs. The turn is one of the looping-the-loop variety, done on motor cycles by a man and a woman. Among the other artists on the bill .ire the Arleys (pole balancers), the De Bakers, poseurs, the Caleys, comedians, Reg. Newberry, tho boy soprano, and Alsace, musician. THE KING'S THEATRE. . Tho last two opportunities to see "The, Common, Law" will be to-day at 2.30 and R p.m. To-morrow "\V. S. Hart will star in "Draw Egtm." 'Western drama has ofton been of poor quality, and consequently its popularity has been on the wane. To W. S. Hart beltings tho honour of rcdecimner it from mediocrity., and i endowing it with appeal to the public. In "Draw Egan" a mining town gets the notorious "Draw" for its sheriff, and 'finds him determined to keep law and order. ' Louise Glaum is the central figure in a placo of vice, and tho whole is said to furnish another score for the Triangle Company. THE EMPRESS THEATRE. s' The final screening of "The Count" occurs to-day. To-morrow, Alice Brady will be the star in Henry Murger's wonderful story, "La Boheme." Miss Brady, in the role of Mimi, gives an appealing representation which will lie rendered doubly enjoyable by the aid of special music on the Vox Humana ■ organ. "PEGGY." 1 Billie Burke's entry into tho moving picture world bids fair' to make many of the recognised queens of the film look 1 to their laurels. In "Peggy,which ' was specially written for her demit, she had a role which provides an opportunity of seeing her in all her alluring moods. Her sweet deviltry gets full expression in the. scenes in the Scotch village where she cuTes the local drunk by abstracting his glass, and tormenting with ' 6iich diro expressions as "A grave's length J nearer," and so on. Her resolute de- 1 termination is seen when she faces the elders of the lurk, who aro sitting in ' judgment on a girl who has gone astray. , Her delicious wink must not be lost sight of, as it is one of the "highlights" in a bright series of indents. ] "Peggy" opens to-morrow morning at j Everybody's, after a remarkably successful Auckland season-. The Triangle"play, "Eve of tho Night," will not bo serened after to-day.