ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3039, 28 March 1917, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Judging from the large numbers which hare attended His Mn.jeaty'6 Theatre lor the first two "nights of the new programme, there should be record attendances for the rest of the week. High standard and variety aro the two mam features of the entertainment. The item supplied by the Lβ Orohs ie without doubt one of the moat amazing contortion acts seen here. The tricks are beyond desoription, and require to be Been to be believed. ''The Knut, the Girl, and the Egg," a comedy sketch supplied by Brull and Helmsley, is another feature of the bill. Madame Alverna and M. Laerto also score heavily. Besides thesfe there ore seven other good items on the bill, which -will bo submitted for the remainder of the -week. THE KING'S._The story of Spartaous the slave from Inrace. -who organised the revolt of the Gladiators, and twice -won two brilliant battles against the forces of Imperial Eome,u told in a stirring picture-play to be seen nightly at the King's Theatre. The production is eplendidly carried out, and, though speotacular to a degree, is yet historically and dramatically of a high standard. There are unusually good comedy and topical, supports. everybody's. "Dad is hopeful of discovering some new ailment," says pretty Constance Talmadge, when she takes her fussy father to see the doctor in "The Microscope Mystery," a clever Triangle play now being shown at Everybody's Theatre. There are bacilli of various kinds, and some most interesting eoientiflc studies interwoven in the telling of the story, which also incidentally throws some interesting sidelights on the methods of medical qiiacke. In "The Gathering Storm," Billie Burke is seen in the .latest story of "Gloria's Romance," which is being followed by an ever-growing crowd. EMPRESS. "The Madness of Helen,"'a "World" picture, starring Ethel Clayton at the Empress Theatre, tells of a poor girl whose reason becomes unhinged when her newly-made husband leaves her. She has a habit of running spirit-like about the village at midnight, and there aro many domestic complications before the play ends with a most unexpected turn; Clara Kimball Young, in "The Dark Silence," commences next Saturday.

,J. C. WILLIAMSON'S FAECMOMEDX COMPANY.

The new J. C. Williamson comedy company, heaaed by Miss Beatrice Holloway, who last visited N.Z. as leading lady with Mr. Fred. Niblo in "Get-Eich-§uiok Wallingford," and Mr. Eobert Greig, who was associated with Mr. Hugli G. Ward for' bo many years, will open their Wellington season at the Grand Opera House on Easter Saturday night, in ' George M. Cohan's brilliant mystery farce, "Seven Keys to Baldpate." It is etated that there ie not one moment throughout the play that is not unusual, freakish, and brilliantly absorbing. Mies Holloway and Mr. B. Greig created a new comedy reoord with this play in South Africa, under the J. C. Williamson banner last year. To tell the story of the play would rob it of a very great deal of its interest. Its idea ie stated to be most happily conceived and brilliantly carried out by the playwright. The play is said, to be every bit as full of thrill as "Within the Law," or any of the many other sensational plays in the repertoire of the previous Williamson companies, and its characters inolude gunmen, grafters, adventuresses, and unscrupulous police officers, and in spite of all this thrill it is a farce of tho most wildly hilarious type. But where the part of the fun comes in is that tno audience is able to enjoy all these thrills as thrills, and then finally indulge m the heartiest kind of laugh at its own expense for having been so cleverly deceived as to believe anything of the kind. In addition to the two principals the company will include Fred. Cambourne, Guy, Hastings, Edwin Lester, Kenneth Brampton,. Herbert Leigh, Chvo Farnurn, Thomas Lloyd, Kaymond Lawrence, Harold Moran, Violet Yorte, Mrs. Chas. Holloway./Marion Marcus Clarke, and Esther Mitoliel. The box plana will open at the Bristol next Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. THE NORWOODS. M the Grand Opera House on Saturday these ever popular entertainers, open a short farewell season in Wellington. It is safe to say that moet people in-the city have seen the Norwoods j'fout their entertainment is of such' a- nature that no one ever tires of it. During Jheir lnst/eenson here the Grand Opera House was packed for eight nights, and as this is the last time this lauehter-produoing show will bo seen, and the season is a t short one, an overflow is expected on tie opening night. Professor Norwood will offer a number of new scenes, which it is promised will bring forth rounds of applause and screams of laughter. He w\ll be assisted by Mise Ruth Hamilton, of Sydney, in his demonstrations of mental telepathy. , . . .