ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3028, 15 March 1917, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

FLORENCE ROCKWELL SEASON. The box plans for the nine nights' season of Miss Florence Rockwell and the J. C. Williamson Company associated with her will be opened at the Bristol to-morrow morning at 0 o'clock. 'The season will commonco at the Grand Opera House on Tuesday evening next. The opening attraction' will be "The House of Glass," by Jinx Marcin, an author new to the Dominion. Mr. Marcin this year iu New York has a bis comedy success in " Cheating Cheaters, which play, by the way, has been sccured for New Zealand by .T. C. Williamson, Ltd. "The House of Glass" is a drama based on an incident of real life that came under the notice of the author when he was a reporter on a New York daily, and the play has passed its eighteenth month in New York. The play was practically written for Miss Florence Rockwell, whose impersonation of tho persecuted heroine. Margaret Case, is' said to be an enthralling piece of stago work. Mr. Frank Harvey is also credited with an exceptionally fine performance in the part of Harvey Lake. Others in a long cast are Messrs. Stephen Scanlon, Arthur Styan, Arthur Greenaway, Leonard Stephens, Boyd Irwin, and Misses Maggie Knight, Gertrude Boswell, Stella Payter. Four nights only will be devoted to "The House of Glass," which will give way to Somerset Maughaum's fine play, the "Land of Promise," which will be succeeded for the last three nights of the season bv the "Law of the Land," T>y George Broadhurst. . HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. His Majesty's Theatre was again largely attended Inst evening, and tlio audience went awny well satisfied with tho good entertainment provided. Not the least interesting item on the bill was _ the third night of tile Fox Trot competition. There wore threo couples on the list la»t night, and much merriment was caused by tho last on the list, who did some most erratic dancing. The winners proved from the applause of the audience to be Miss Aorangi Winstanlfcy and Mr. Ronald Crichtou. Together with Mies Lorna Snow and Mr. Percy Oughton, and Miss Eleather Marshall and Mr. Harry Brown, who were considered equal on the first night, and Miss Doris Clifford and Mr. Leo Shaddick, tho winners on tho second night, the couple who won last evening will again appear to-night in the final, the winner to be judged from the applause of the audience. Besides this item a good programme, including Victor Prince and a revue company, and a number of other entertaining items, will be submitted. THE KING'S. Mdlle. Valkyrien is seen to great advantage as tho imprisoned girl in "The Hidden Valley," a story of Central Africa, which is being accorded a good reception at tho King's. In the sacrificial dance tlio terpsiohorean abilities of the star aro pleasingly displayed. There is also a laughable Triangle comedy, starring William Collier. Saturday's star will be "Tho Crown Prince's Double," described as a remarkably good drama by the New Vitagraph Company. Norma Talmadge and Maurice Costello aro the stars. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. * "The Beggar of Cawnpore," a wonderful portrayal of a terrible page in the history of our. Indian Empire, is the main attraction at Everybody's. H. B. Warner, the powerful Triangle actor, plays tho name part, and his transformation from the rol© of a smart Army surgeon to that of a dope-ridden outcast ranks as one of tho best ■pieces of characterisation in tho world of the filmic drama Al6O on the same programme is the popular Billio Burke, in "Perilous Love. Saturday's ohange will show Charles Bay in a Triangle. play, called "The Honourable Algy." THE EMPRESS. Robert Warwick is tho star in "All Man." an engrossing World Film play at this popular house. The nicture describes the making good" of a young ! well-to-do. With tho aid of pretty Mollie ! King he succeeds in outwitting a Tailroad president who has designs on the ranch tho young man has settled upon, and there is plenty of dasli and novelty before the denouement. Commencing on Saturday Ethel Clayton and Holbrook Blinn will be seen in "Tho Hidden Scar."