ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3102, 5 June 1917, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

"THE SILENCE OV DEAN J[AITLAND." At tlio Grand Opera House last evening tho Brandon-Cremer Company gave another performance of "Tlio Silenco of Dean Maitland." TUo play ie full of emotional interest, and affords scope for powerful work by tho actors. Tho part of tho Dean has especially great possibilities, and of theso Air. Maurice Tuohy has made tho most. Mr. Tuohy's work in the final sceno is tenso and thrilling. Many of Hid other characters are invested with a good deal of interest, and the company as a whole acquits itself well. The part of Lilian Maitland, the Dean's sister, is played with considerable ability by Miss Mabel Hardinge. Tho mountin? of tho piece is good. Another performance will be given this evening.

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATBE. Two. bumper holiday audiences greeted tho progranimo at His Majesty's Theatre yesterday afternoon and evening. Among the top-liners was Miss Yiolet Trevenyon, whose grace and charm make her a sure drawing card. Last evening she sang such light and airy eongs as "I Want Loving All the Time," "If You Were the Only Boy," "Drop Mo Down .There," and "Let's be Merry and Bright." But Miss Trevenyon was not tho only pleasant entertainer. Mils Dora Oberman, ono of the best-equipped mezzo-sopranos known to tho vaudeville stage, is always technically sound, and has a powerful and musical voico. She sang Trances Allitzca's "Song of Thanksgiving" with great spirit, and in the best of taste, "When the Bolls of Joy Ring Out" (a 6oldier "comforts song"), and "You're Voico Seems Calling Mo" (from "High Jinks"), tho latter remarkably well sung. A newcomer ig' Mr. Arthur Croxon, a facile and clever character comedian and imitator, who" is easy and glib in his work. His duet, "Tho Anchor's Weighed," as sung by two old people, was very amusing, and his blandishments in inducing the audience to sins the song "I Saw Six Short Soldiers Scrubbing Six Short Shirts" was good fun. Charles Edenury, .1 very finished and attractive hand and head-balancer, returned to fill the audience with delight at the fresh, cleancutness of his style, and the very admirable display of muscular tissuo in the upper limbs, chest, and neck. The outstanding feature about tho Gadabout Girla is their out-of-tuneness, but as they sro merry and bright such trifles do not interfere with their popularity. Jeanette Spellman continues to poke fun at a world of lovers in a piquant manner, but ehe was best-liked in "The Song My .Mother Sang" number. Tim Moore is a comical coloured comedian, with a mouth that speaks volumes. Mrs. Mooro assists with a husky contralto, and a neat pair of feet. QeOj D'Alma plays the banjo admirably—the wired banjo of vaudeville, played in mandoline style with plectrum. Billy Brown, best of negro comedians, sang with vital gusto of "Mister Eastns Johnson," and gavo especial delight in that clover and melodious song, "Dixio Land, 1 ' a capital lay on an old themo, and- a vaudeville classic in Mr. Brown's hands. Sterling-and Love contributes a bright musical sketch, in whicli madame's voico dovetails harmoniously with monsieur's tuneful cornet and coach-horn. THE ENGLISH PIERROTS. Tho English Pierrots continuo 'to draw crowded houses. Last evening they repeated the programme that began its run on Thursday, and every item was enthu6iaetically received. The company presents to the public nothing but the best, and tho brightness and cleanness of tho show must commend it very highly to the discriminating taste. The Pierrots will appear again this evening, and a change of bill will ho given on Thursday.

:. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. T. H. Ince has; proclaimed that Enid Bennett, the young Australian actress, is the greatest screen "find" for .years, which auguis well for the pretty girl who makes Her first appearance in "The Princess of tho Dark." Hundreds of strange little figures were to bo seen at the time of the making of this picture strolling about the great Ince studios. They wero frogs with beady eyes, dwarfs with real humps, gnomes with Jong beards, fairies with • tinsel crowns, pixies with gauzy wings, and they were all being used for the fairy scenes that aro bo well done in this- : Trianglo play. THE EMPRESS THEAIRE.' "A coarse, illiterate brute," is the description applied to "Tho Foolish. Virgin's" long-looked-for lover by her best friend. Tho girl whose head lias been filled with love dreams extracted from novels flamed into anger, and she parted from her one true friend to join tho man whose real character she was soon to bitterly realise. Thomas Dison s book in picture form attracted biff crowds / on Saturday and yesterday. The picture is remarkably well staged and presented.

. KINEHACOLOE AT THE TOWN. HALL. Mr. William .J. Shephard, proprietor of tlio Kinemacolor pictures in Australasia, will commence a season at the Town Hall on Molfflay night next with a series entitled "The Wonderland of New Zealand" and "The AVorld Reviewed." were specially taken for the New Zealand Government, and are tlio first complete set of official pictures taken by the Kincmacolor process in the Southern Hemisphere; and are ehovn for the first timo in the Dominion, aho - whole of the Dominion and its resources are dealt with in such a manner that the greatest, interest is sustained throughout. Industries, sports, famous places, Maoris and their customs, wonderful spouting geysers, and boiling springs are all seen. Scenes' in Wellington and many other cities are clears i ly shown. All are presented in tho colours true to Nature, and are the only pictures in Australasia of this class. The "Kinemacolor process to-day is claimed j to be a revelation in picture production. In "The' World Reviewed," which occupies part of the same programme, the - audience is shown events in such places, as California to Canada. Kinemacolor, it is' said, differs entirely from the- ordinary pictures, in that everything is actually photographed in the true colours, being, neither tinted or hand coloured in any way. Tho box plan, is open at the Bristol. "THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT," \ Advice has boon received that J. C. Williamson, Ltd.'s, Pantomime Company, which has bcon playing "The Hoiis* that j Jack Built" since Christinas, will' com- •' menco a, tour of New Zealand at the ■Grand Opera House, Wellington, on Tuesday, June 19. The local season will be lor six nights only—a very short season for pantomime—and as it has been adjudged to be one of tho best shows of its class the firm has ever presented, there is not likely to be 'any vacant seats. Tho Auckland season will be from June 30 to July G; Cliristchurch, July 10 to 21; and Bunedin, July 21 to 28. Mr. Charles Berkeley will be the advance representative and Mr. John Farrell manager. WALTER JOHNSON'S MUSICAL COY. Fullers' most ambitious enterprise of the revue genre will commence- a setvuoii at His Majesty's Theatre next Saturday. This is tho Johnson Musical. Revue Players combination, which has just' completed a successful season at tlio Princess Theatre, Dunedin. A completo musical comedy corps do ballet, twelve principals ond a largo chorus, as ivcll as l>ein;r produced on tlio most lavish scale, aro said to be but a few of tho features of this enterprise, which is (juilo tho largest and most successful lcvue the Fullers havo ever introduced.