ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3143, 28 July 1917, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

HIS MAJES'LVS TffKATEE. At Bis Majesty's Theatre this week, tjy programme is easily one of the best that has appeared for unite some time past. One of the outstanding features of the bill is the performance of Rose and Dell, cyclists and acrobats. This turn alone i* well worth going: to see. Among tlio other attractions are the lioyle Trio (sonps and dances), Taylor and jfc'Quoin (\ocalists), Baron (ventriloquist). and Maud Fanning and the Elliott Sister?. A matinee will be given to-day. THE NBW DANDIES. Dandies ln-st repeated the bright and entertaining programme which they put before the jublio on ■Thursday night. The Dandies aro an excellent combination, aud their Duuibers ore marked by a refinement that renders the show -what it purports to be—a. p'easont attraction to the w v ole family circle. The concerted work is of the very highest standard, though in this rospect it aocs uot . dialer at all from the performances mi m embers of the company. The bill will be again presented to-night. "INTOLERANCE." The great spectacular SJm "Intolerance" will be exhibited at the King's Theatre .for the last time this afl-ernoon and evening. Although tho picture drew full houses on every night of its previous presentment. the attendance showed r.o slackening when it returned. Thousands of people in Wellington m>.st by now have admired the magnificence of the work the full grandeur of which it is almost impossible to grasp fully at one sitting. THE EMPRESS THEATRE. "Rcnn is Ihe groat divorce- metropolis for the United -State*?, and that is uhere Muriel Ostriche, a-s the heroine of "Moral Courage." goes to get her divorce cheaply. TO9 she dons to collect 100,000 dollars which <i mill-owner has offered her to divorce his son. Tie did not mention anything, however, a.bout. "er future, and having collected the money. ?he rromptlv r'v-uiarrics the boy. "Moral Courage" Is tho latest- of the populaj' World feature?. The third instalment of "The Tron Cfrw" commences to-day. and those vho failed to see the second story -)f thi« thrilling serial ore remimM that this will bo con--4 Mined for the day screenings onlv today.

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. As official photographo;- to the French, amies, Captain Donald Thompson, who took the --wonderful war pictures commencing to-day at, Everybody's Theatre, had special opportunities of filming unique events. Many of the scenes are taken only a few feet from the German lines. Shells can bo seen bursting only a short distance from tho camera, blotting tho view out with smojfe. The famous "curtain of fire" can be seen driving thousands of Germans towards the French trenches to be made prisoners. Tho armoured train views are" quite now, and are a revelation of tho tango of devices and mechanism employed in the titanic struggle. Tho heaviest artillery strugglo of Verdun is shown in vivid detail, with great guns of the Allies (the largest in the world) in notion, and armoured canal boats at work. Douglas Fairbanks will star to-day in tie mystery of "The leaping Pish."

FRENCH SOLDIERS' CONCERT. The French soldiers, with the assistance of a number of local performers, will give a concert in tho Town Hall on Tuesday, in aid of the Bed Gross Fund and the Retiirnod Soldiers' Club. The soldiers will sing a number of French trench songs, and items will also le given by songs, and items will also bo given by Misses Segrief, Richmond', and Sawyer and Messrs. Hamilton Hodges, S. H. Wood, and A. Russell. The Trentham Band will also assist. The concert will be under the patronage of His Eicellency the Governor-General and the Countess of Liverpool, and tho Prime Minister (lit. Hon. W. F. Mafisey) will preside.

TO-NIGHT'S ORGAN RECITAL. The organ recital to be given in tho Town Hall this evening by.the City Organ--ist (Mr. Bernard F. Piige) will include two new workß: Scriabine's Prelude No. 1 and Glazounov's "La Suit," Op. 31, No. 3. The Concerto in E Flat by "William Felton is to bo repeated by special request. The Karg-Elert Sonatina in A Minor (Allegro Moderato-Andante Molto and Tripelfugdietta), and tho Finalo from Symphony No. 6 in B Minor (Pathetic), by Tsohaikovsky, are works which have teen given a number of times previously, and aro oxtromely popular. The other number is Baoh's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. "VERY GOOD EDDIE." On Wednesday, August 8, at the Grand Opera House, Messrs. J. and N. Tait will •present their new musiea l comedy. company, "Very Good Eddie," v-hich played to packed houses for leu weeks at the Palace Theatre. Sydney. The story opens on tho Catskill, a liver steamer about to leave Now York for a long up the Hudson River. It is the boat, v hich Eddie (Barry Lupino) and his bri<lo (Emily Fitzroy) have elected to travel by on their honeymoon, but there is a'so another couplo of nowly-weds, Percy Darling {George Whitehead) and- Elsie Darling (Payette Perry). The baggage gets nixed up on tho quay, and Eddio's strong-willed bride goes off to fix things, wlii'e Percy Eeeks the land on<;e more to claim his own. While so employed tho steamer leaves with Eddie and E'°ic Darling on board. Such a position were these two .placed in that they elect to pass as man and wife. A lot of exceedingly funny .situations follow, and the irate -ivife of poor little Eddie and the infuriated husband of Elsie appear, and matters arc comically straightened out. The comedy is said to bo bright and sparkling, the piece full of tuneful melodies, tho i allets original, and the dressing gorgeous. "Very Good Eddie" can only be played for six nights, and will be followed by "The White Chrysanthemum," described 03 a musical tale of Japan. The box plan opens for the first six nights of the season at the Bristol on Thursday.