ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3021, 7 March 1917, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

"WHAT HAPPENED TO JONES." The company which is playing the musical farce "What Happened to J ones" is drawing big crowds to the Grand Opera House nightly. The play still must ho ranked as one of the Iwst comedies of its class ever written, and as it had its. great -vogue a good many years ago it can very well hear rovival. Hr. Georgo AVilloughby ns Jones lias a part in which ho thoroughly enjoys himself, and, of course, he makes much' fun for his audiences. He is adequately supported by a party of Hound players, and altogether tho performanco is worthy of the play. "What Happened to Jones" will be played to-night and to-morrow night, and on the following night the company will produce another old favourite, "Why Smith Left Home."

A special bargain matinee of "What Happened to Jones" is to be given oh Saturday afternoon.

r HIS MAJESTY'S .THEATRE. Victor Prince and his company head this week's programme at His Majesty's Theatre They appear in a one-act farce "Tho. Beauty Shop," which concerns sailors, beautiful maidens, a beauty specialist, and a host of other people who appear and disappear at the right moment. Altogether the hour over which tho "Beauty Shop" is open is one of humour, catcliy music, and tasteful dancing. The single acts of tho programme are very good. Early and Laight reappear in a comical sketch, and Billy Mann, an American, is amusing in his patter, which is given in the strain of a black fellow. Phil Perciva! gives aljurcsque on melodrama, and Miss 31. Alwyuo, a pleasing contralto, wins the applause of the audience by the tasteful rendering of her songs.

THE KING'S. Vivian Martin, the vivacious, clever little lady who plays lead in "The Stronger Love," is one of tho daintiest artistes on the sorcen to-day, and sho plays the role of a 'barefooted girl of the mountain smuggling clan in a manner reminiscent of tho work of Mary Pickford in her earlier successes. The picture describes tho romantic attachment which grows between tho mountain maid and a young scientist, who is searching for radium, but is mistaken for a revenue officer and is rescued by tho girl in thrilling circumstances. The picture is enacted iu a district of great scenio beauty, and is -unfolded in a natural and telling manner. There are varied supports.

EVERYBODY'S. Soino of the athletic feats Douglas Fairbanks performs in his latest picture would probably be impossible for any other artist in pictures. In "Reggie Mixes In" be has the role of a well-to-do young man who falls in lore with a dancing girl in one of the toughest saloons in the Bowery. Ho finds it necessary to take a job as a "throwei'TOut," and his methods in this capacity are most effective. Bessie Love is the demure and pretty heroine. The second' story of "Gloria's Romance" has a large following.

THE EMPRESS. How a lovely American ■ girl becomes entangled in the schemes of Russian Nihilists is dramatically told in "The Scarlet Oath," a World Film production at the Empress. Gail Kano plays a dual rolo in this picture, which describes the persecution of a Russian family of revolutionists, ending in the death of the mother. Years later ono of tho twin daughters returns from America to assassinate Savaroff, tho chief of police The denouement is sudden and powerful. Scenes in Warsaw before tho Gorman occupation are a feature of tho production.