ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3032, 20 March 1917, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

FLORENCE HOCKWELL TO-NIGHT.

Tho curtain will riso iit 8 this evening at the Grand Opera House on the J. C. Williamson initial presentation of the driunn, "The House of Glass," and a warm welcome is anticipated for the young emotional actress, Miss Florence Rockwell. Again, tile fact of witnessing this famous American actress in three of her greatest creations during tho limited season of nine nights, should greatly add to tho interest of prospective playgoers. Another feature of the season will by the reappearance of Mr. Frank Harvpy, a clever young actor, who has made himself extremely popular by his fine performances recently. The original cast from. the Criterion Theatre, Sydney, will accompany Miss Rockwell, and includes such popular members as Messrs. Arthur Styan, Boyd Irwin, William Lockhart, Charles Brown, and Leslie Victor, Misses Maggie Anight, Hose Eooney, and Stella Payter. The box plans are now on view at the Bristol for the entire season of nine nights, during which limited space "The House of Glass" (four nights), "The Lar.d of Promise" (two nights), aod "The Law of the Land" (three nights), will be presented. On Saturday next W. Somerset Maughan's "Land of Promise,' spoken of as being an entirely new type of play, will be produced. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE, A good, straight-out vaudeville programme was submitted at His Majesty's Theatre last evening by a company that embraced performers new and other 3 wlio are proved artists of endorsed tertaining ability. A delightful musical comedy act that should attract audiences was submitted by Brull and Helmsley, 1 a very clever light comedian and dancer, and a golden-haired balladist who fits in -well with the scheme of things. Mr. Brull's fooling was adroit and finished, and his eccentric oancinS was that grotesquely staccato and rythmical that tho audience liover appeared to get enough of it. His singing of a set of lancers Was a lovely bit of comedy fooling that niaile an immediate and undeniable hit. Tho pair of newcomers were, also amusing in their burlesque of ragtime ditties, sung in harmony. Billy Brown, the negro ..comedian, who is an old favourite, is funnier than ever. Hβ gets in ii lot of wildly comic expressions, and his quaint gestures and habit; caused ehieks of' laughter. "What are you going to tell Marso Peter?" an imitation of a, negro camp meeting parsons, revived the very host in comic minstrelsy. Fred Arthur, a finished comedian and mimic, appeared as Burlington Bert ("strafe those a shabby swell of the London pavements, who sings about his alleged connections in high life with an Unctuoua Micawb'erian humour that is guite admirable. His imitations "of a group of mixed /■Ulies attempting] to recite a vorse of "The Charge of the Light Brigade," added a now note to ar. extremely aged friend. Miss Marjorie Alwyne, the Junoesque contralto, sang songs of home and mbtfijsr, and Miss Pearl Livingstone •yppled 1 off "Some Baby" and "My Brother Sylvest" in nttractivo style. Mark Erickson, the Rosio Rifle Company, Scott Gibson, the St. Georges, and Alsace nlso figured entertainingly in the bill. THE KING'S. The extraordinary adventures of Maurice: Costello, as the hero of "The Crown Prince's Double," in which he is associated'with the popular ;Norma Talmadge, is pleasing the audiences at- The King's this week. The picture is a Vitagrnpli Blue Ribbon play, and the plot is filled with romance and intrigue. A special motor trip through Death Valley and nn interesting number of the latest Topical film make up the programme. THE EMPRESS. "Gay days and grey days" havo been tho lot of the girl of the cabarets who is tho heroine of the World Film drama, "Tho Hidden Slmi , ," now screening at tho Empress. After living an upright life for many years with her fatherless child she is sought in marriage by a young minister. Years of happiness follow until the crash comes, when he finds put about her past. A mutual friend, succeeds in healing the breach. EVERYBODY'S. "Noblesse oblige" is a motto that [jets various treatment at the hands of tho two aristocrats, Ixird Kw.kmore and the Honourable Algy, the hero of the smart Triangle play, now screening ,it s Everybody's. Tho story concerns a jewel robbery in which tho thief is completely foiled by the avtlossness of Algy. Tho pictuj'o is carried out in finished stylo, and has many powerfully dramatic as well i\s> humorous moments. Tho latest Billie Burke story is '".('he Social Vortes." This winsome little lady's popularity is increasing weekly.