ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3040, 29 March 1917, Page 7

ENTERTAINMENTS

'■THE LAW OF THE LAND." The American play, "The Law of the Land," was presented again last night by tho Williamson Company, at tho Grand Opera Houso. It is a very cleverly-written play, expressing views which' are fresh and original, if not always orthodox. There is a problem in tho plot, but really the author treats the very drendful problem . very playfully, I pud doe 3 not ask tho audienco to take I it too seriously.* Tlio pieco is quite exj traordinarily well .'performed, ;and tho ■ entertainment it affords is not, at all strained or unreal. The season of the company will bo concluded to-night. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. His Majesty's Theatre was again crowded last oyening. Tho programme submitted this week is one of tho most entertaining and varied seen for eome time. A marvellous item is that of tho Lβ Grohs, a man and a woman, who aro most clever contortionists. The male member of tho duo is particularly good. Briill and Helmsley, who are appearing again thi6 week inako a decided success of "i comedy-sketch, entitled "Tho Kuut; tho Girl, and tho Egg." , An. item yery much appreciated is tho capital highclass musical ouo eupplied by Madame Alverna.aud M. Laerto. Their reappearance is a welcome one. On tho rent of the bill there are a number of other .good items, including those of Armitage and Hine,' musicians, the De Baker Living Models, and Billy Brown, tho coloured comedian. ' . THE KING'S.

"Spartaous," the splendid and spectacular historical pageant, is being well received at the King's Theatre. The production has many foatures rominiscent of "Cabiria," the last big suocess of this kind., The etory of the Thracian slave who organised an array and twice overthrew- tho Roman legions makes an entertaining picture, aud has been well directed. - There are good cpmedy and topical snjjporting pictures. Saturday's picture is. called "Prudence the Pirate," described as a good attraction.

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE, A dragon fly's mouth magnified 150,000 diameters is a ferocioue sight, and draws exclamations from Constance Talmadge, the pretty horoine of i "The Microscope Mystery," a' novel Triangle play now being presented at Everybody's. Tie picture is not only an interesting scientific film, but has its comedy and romantic aspect. Some sidelights are thrown on the' niothods of medical quacks. Billie Burke is delighting hot many! admirers in the present instalment of "Gloria's Romance," "The Gathering , Storm." Douglas Fairbanks will appear on Saturday in "The Matrinianiac."

■ . v THE EMPRESS. Ethol Clayton is both beautiful and clever in "The Madness.'of Helen," tho "World" feature at the Empress. She plays the part of a givl whose sister has becorao insane through the desertion of her husband. The audience is kept in a 6tate of.suspense and uncertainty right through the pictuie, and not till the final scene docs it become apparent that the mad girl and her sister are both plaj-ed by Miss Clayton. There is a conipleto surprise at tho end of the picture. Clara Kimball Young will ecreen on Saturday in the niuch-disoussed picture, "The Dark Silonce."