ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3191, 15 September 1917, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

THE MAGIO OAEPET.

Tlio niuch-loolied-for production of "Tho Magic Carpet" by Miss Gladys Campbell aud her pupils, assisted by several wellknown amateurs, opens at the Grand Opera llouso to-uiijht before the Viee-ltegal parly, and a crowded house is conildeutly oxpeoted. The proceeds aro to be devoted to tho Countess of Liverpool's Fund, and it is liopod tliat overyone who possibly can will majte a point of being .present during the season. Miss Campbell and Mr. Paul Latham, the stage manager, arc sparing no pains to preseut the play in a manner which should assure its immediate success. The ballets and dance- features promise to be of tho very highest artistic order. Jliss Mary Puller, a well-known amateur, «s the Princess Gyonne, will be heard in the musical scores, and the specially trained voluntary chorus will lend additional attraction to what promises to be a noteworthy production. Paul Stanhope and. his revue pompanj occupy tho chief place on the bill at His ilajesty's this week. The entertainment they provide is bright and clever, and includes many "catchy" musical numbers. The plot has to do with, tho impersonation, hv an Irish, visitor, of an hotel manager and ft champion pugilist. The programme includes vaudeville turns-by an l array «f popular artists. KING'S THEATRE. Peggy Hyland is starred in "JJabcttc," the Greater Vitagraph drainu to he screened at the King's Theatre this afternoon. The central incident of the story is tho marriage of a beautiful French girl to a handsome stranger whom she believes to lie a- great artist. Ho really is an artist by instinct, but by choice he is one of the cleverest thieves in France. Ho makes a resolute stand after his marriage, and does not succumb to the easier way until his Babette falls ill. Then he gets the money in tho old way, and very soon tlii) police are on his track. His real trouble is to keep the truth from his innocent wife, and this he manages to do. A dramatic turn of fate comes to his aid, and the end of the story is a surprise. Excellont supporting items are promised. EVEEYBODY'S THEATER "The Dark Hold" is the feature to be screened at Everybody's Theatre to-day. Some of the sjiuatious are described as terrific in intensity, and the management chum that their emotional effects will be felt by the most hardened picture-goer. Dorothy Daltou is tlio star, and in the role of the siren whoso desires alone are her slaves is said to do superb work. She is particularly iinpressivo In the last scene, where, in the midst of the gorgeous barbaric settings with which she has surrounded her goddess, Cleopatra, she is relentlessly hunted by her half-crazed husband. The retribution for her wanton conduct is terrible and complete. Supporting items include a rollicking Keystone comedy, "A Bachelor's i'iuisb." EMPRESS THEATRE. i "The Divorce Game" is the star item ' on the programme to be screened at tho Empress Theatre to-day. It is described as one of the finest productions ever put out by the World Film Studios. Alice Brady, as the piquant American girl married to the lovable but altogether irresponsible French count, is said to bo seen in the finest role of her career. The story deals with a young couple who, loving each other devotedly, become desperately hard pressed for money, but find that by being divorced there is a chance of turning into cash the money of their marringo settlement.- The wife, however, as soon as her husband leaves the house as a result of his pretended infidelity, goes veiled to see him as often as she can, and is, of course, discovered, 'file setting of the picture is said to bo magnificent. Chapter 10 of "The Iron Claw, , ' entitled "The Living Death." will also be shown. THE ENGLISH PIERROTS. The English Pierrots, it is announced , , -will close their season on Wednesday next. A change of programme will be mado to-night, and on t/he lest 'three nights request items •will be included. The company has all along provided" most attractive entertainments, and the audiences for the remainder of the Eeason are not likely to show any falling-off in numbers. ADA EEEVE TOT7E. Mr. H. D. M'lntosh announoes that on account of tho great success of the brilliant comedienne, Ada fleevo. and hor English Company, at Auckland, the season thcro has been extended until Tuesday next, and tho itinerary of lho North Island tour has had to be altered. The various towne will now bo visited as follow:—Hamilton, Wednesday, September 19; Wanganul, Friday, September 2); Palmerston North, Saturday, September 22; Dannevirke, Monday, September 24; Napier, Tuesday, September 25; Hastings, Wednesday and Thursday, September 26 and 27; Masterton, Friday. September 28; Wellington. October 1 to 6.