ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3022, 8 March 1917, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

WILLOUGHBY COMEDY COMPANY. Mr. Geo. Willoughby's musical farce company will repeat its performance of "What Hapnoned to Jones" to-night Tomorrow overling another old favourite in "Why Smith Left Homo" will to staged, "ho plot of tho play ia easily described. John Smith, is a downright good fellow, and ho is mar.ried. Married 'happily, too, if ho could only get sufficient leisure to enjoy that blissful state. But having been compelled, owing to tho business calls, to postpone his honeymoon, he finds that tho six months 'subsequent to his having led his wife to the hymeneal altar have been amply filled in by a succession of long-drawn-out visits from his and her relations. He, however, draws the lino at Mrs. Billetdoux, Mrs. Smith's aunt, and when she and her husband aro billeted upon him ho resorts to desperato measures. A new cook, whose culinary experiments have worried the household, imbues him with the brilliant idea of enlisting her services in order to get rid of his visitors by trifling with their digestions. Beforo this amiable intention, can bo carried into execution, Smith, owing to an unfortunate visual error, is discovered in the act of kissing his wife's maid, an accident in which Smitli was the victim of circumstances. Prom this sourco spring many complications, which provide tho audience with much merriment. On Saturday afternoon a special bargain matinee of "What Happened to Jones" will bo given. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. . The programme at His Majesty's Theatro this week is ono of exceptional merit. Victor Prince and hie company appear in a mimical farce, -which ie highly diverting. The supporting items are also very good, and three old favourites contribute. One is Phil Percival, who gives a. burlesque on melodrama, and the others are Early and Laight, whose sketch on. temperance is above the average. A refining touch is given to the programme by Miss B. Alwyne, whose songs ore delightfully sung. Billy Mann and lus patter in a Dixie accent are good. The programme will be given at a matinee on Satnrdap.

THE KING'S. "The Stronger Love" describes the romance of a pretty little girl who has grown up amid the lough surroundings o£ a smuggling clan. Her lovo for a young stranger who stumbles upon the pang's secret leads to a dramatic outcome. Particularly beautiful are tho scenic surroundings amid which the drama has Ijeon enacted. Good comedy and topical subjects give variety to tho programmo. Saturday's change will bo "Tho Hidden Valley," a drama of Central Africa.

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. Douglas Fairbanks provides thrills in plenty, in "Keggie Mixes In," a. novel story of Now York's BoweTy, by the Triaugle Pine Arts Co. Little Bessie Love is deniuro and pretty as a dancing girl in a rough saloon, and the whole picture is powerfully acted and presented with realistic attention to detail. Billie Burke ie ns pretty and clever as ever in the second story of "Gloria's Romance."

THE EMPRESS. "Tho Scarlet Oath," a story of the Russian Nihilists, with Gap Kano in the dual role of twin sisters, is tho etar attraction at tho Empress, and is meeting ■with considerable appreciation. The picture is splendidly carried out, and includes econes of Warsaw foefore tho Hun occupation. Special music oil tho orchestrion is played every afternoon and evening. Saturday's chajißO will show tho popular Robert in a powerful drama called "All Man."