ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3052, 13 April 1917, Page 10

ENTERTAINMENTS

GRAND OPERA HOUSE. Another big audience enjoyed the' entertaining American comedy, "-Seven Keys to Baldpate," nt the Grand Upera Mouse last night. The play iv:jl bo [jiesented for tho last timo this evening, ,md will give place tomorrow to another rick American comedy, "A Pair of Sixes/' which Ims earned tho highest praiee in Australian centres. "A Pair of Sixes" proved one oi' the most successful productions staged in Sydney and Melbourne last year, and the booking for to-morrow evening's production is said to bo a certain indication of a full house. The now comedy is said to be extremely funny. The story hinges in George B. Nettleton and T. Hoggs Johns, who are 50-50 partners in the Eureka. Digestive* Pill Company, of Now York City, a flourishing concern. But the partners can't hit it right, and, -while Nettleton claims to be the 6enior partner because he invented tho ingredients of the pill, Johns not only claims a 50-50 say in the concern,.but holds that his violet-coloured coating is the means of making the public swallow the pill. So they quarrel, and the feeling becomes so strained that they call in the firm's solicitor to dissolve the partnership. Neither will consent to be sold out, so' the solicitor proposes that a hand of poker shall decide the dispute. Nettleton is a married man, and the solicitor is secretly in love with Florence Cole, who is engaged to Johns. The solicitor draws up an agreement by which ' the loser of the game binds himself to become tlie man-servant of the winner for a year, \ giving the -winner entire control of the business, and, by a special clause, also binds the partners to secrecy under a penalty of 5.000 dollars. Nettleton taking first call, turns up a pair of sixes, which Johns fails to beat, so the "brains" of the business becomes the butler of tho "fat and bone" department. The first act, it is said, which leads up to the game of poker, has the house roekihg with laughter, and the fmn increases when Johns is seen, as the butler in Nettleton's house. Mrs. Nettleton, > feeling sorry for' Johns, makes her busband jealous by her attentions to him, and to make matters worse, Nettleton invites Johns' fianoe down for a -week. Of course, the last straw is readied, when, she finds Johns in his new job, and he can't tell her how it came about. From here on complications arise which create -no end of amusement.

. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Lovers of simple humour and gay songs are well catered for at His Majesty's Theatre this' week, the programme being one that appeals more to them than to anyone. The artists include and Moutcz, Winifred and Lumley, Maud Fanning and her family, Miss Vocklcr, and r. number of others. Another interesting item 011 the bill is that of Zakaree Ermakov, an ex-sccret service man from Russia, who lectures on places in Europe in a descriptive manner.

THE KING'S. The wilful heroine of "Indiscretion,", commencing at the King's to-morrow, is Lilian Walker, and as a high-spirited wayward, motherless girl is said to be absolutely fitted in her role. The iron laws of convention annoy her, and partly through absolute innoconce. partly through a gay, tomboy spirit, she shocks the neighbourhood. Good advice is patiently listened to by the dainty maid, but she promptly forgets it. In the last scene, where she has motored from a danco with a man to a wayside inn, she finds the real end of her disregard of convention. A tragedy is averted, but it marks tho heedless young woman for life, and leaves her knowing the truth, that 110 woman can safely do aught but tread the appointed path. "Broken Chains" will bo finally shown to-night. EVERT BODY'S. "The sin ye do by two and two ye must pay for ono by duo." Kipling's famous line is the basis for a remarkable Trianglo play,- wliioh gives Prank Keenan a great opportunity for tense clever screen acting at Everybody's this week. "The Sin Yo .Do" will be finally presented to-night. Thoso who wish to sco the art of photo-dramatisation in its cleverest form should not miss this film play. To-morrow llao Marsh and Robert. Harron will be screened in "The Wharf Rat," an engrossing and quite unusual tale of tho San Krancisco waterfront. A new episode of "Gloria's Romance" will be scrceued. THE EMPRESS.' Gail Kane in "Tho Men She Married"' will be presented to-day and this evening.. To-morrow Ethel Clayton bo screened in what is considered one of the World Company's greatest pictures, "The Bondage of Fear." . The picture is said to be carried out in the style that has. brought this company's features well to tho tore, and Miss Clayton is expected to create many new admirers, by her work as a young wife tortured by the fear of discovery o[ something in hei; past.