ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 55, 28 November 1917, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Tho Walter Johnson Itovue Co. haa reappeared at His Majesty's, and is giving in "Tho Honolulu Girlß" a bright and varied entertainment. The production is in two acts, the first set in London, and tho second in Honolulu. Probably the Honolulu scene is tho one that the audionce finds most attractive, as it affords a fine opportunity for tho ladies of the company to display dainty figures in a most alluring costume. Mr. Gus Franks, Mr. Harry Burgess, and. Miss Lola. Hunt have charge of the prinoipa] roles, and tho piece is a mine of bright musical numbers and clover skits. Still upon tho vaudeville bill are Miss Tiuth Uudd. the amusing Creole Fashion Plate, and It Kay and Graham. KING'S THEATRE. "Tho Mormon Maid," the special attraction now showing at tho King's Theatre, makes an onslaught on the practices carried on when the Utah Settlement was wholly and completely under the domination of the Mormon ciders. Tho picture attracted another large audience last evening, and held tho interest of patrons from start to finish. It is excellently produced, and particularly well acted. Mae Murray is featured in tho leading role. Tho King's Theatre is now a continuous picture house, .commencing daily at i p.m. EMPRESS THEATBE. A World Film drama entitled "The World Against Him," featuring June Elvidge and E. K. Lincoln, is the star film now screening at the Empress Theatre. Mark West's little sister dies as the result of a reckless operation performed by a surgeon as an experiment which ho well knew would result in the child's death. By accident Mark discovers the truth, and he kills tho assistant. For this he is condemned to death, and there in the gaol occurs a strange wedding that iB the central dramatic incident of the picture—a wedding in which ho is the bridegroom only because he is soon to die. The fight when Mark rescues the girl he adores from the Indians is a.fine piece of stagecraft. The last chapter of tho "Iron Olnw," "The Triumph of the Laughing Mask," is also shown.

EVERYBODY'S THEATBE. With attractive settings dopicting a French fishing village and the Latin quarter of Paris and a company of nioro than 700 players, the new Triangle play, "The Mother Instinct," starring Enid Bennett, is the big attraction this week at Everybody's Theatre. The story concerns Eleanor Coutierre, a fisherman's daughter, in a Ktle coast hamlet of France, who goes to Paris and enters the gay revelries of tho Latin quarter. "The Jfother Instinct" has all the elements of human appeal, and a. plot that makes for tnio diversion. Chapter 4 of "The Secret Kingdom," "The Honourable Mr. Oxenham," ia also on tho programme, "THE KEY? HENRIETTA." Local playgoers aro promised a rare treat when Messrs. J. and N. Tail present their New Comedy Company in "The New Henrietta," a comedy-drama, written by the proliilo Winchell Smith, and which has had a great vogue in America and Australia. A flvo nights' Beason will commence on Saturday, December 8, at tho Graud Opera House. In this piece tho members of Messrs. Tait's Company are said to have greater advantages of showing off their histrionic abilities than in "Turn to the Eight." Tho couiedy-drama makes a light fanoiful play on the namo of Henrietta". It ia tho name of a copper mine in which several of the persons in the enst are interested; it is also tho name of tho wife of a man who is interested in the mine, and to make confusion worse confounded it is the Christian cognomen of a particularly merry widow, who wrecks the peace of mind of a dear old man who ought really to know better. One can see possibilities in the idea of great fun. But it iB not all fun —that is where the dramatist gots in the relief so essential to a good play. Mr. Walter P. Eichardßon Is said to trive a very line character-study of the old man Tan Alstyne, the gentleman who should have known better, whilst the other characters in the cast are well placed. Only five performances can be givon. The box plans open at the Bristol on Wednesday neit. "OH! SUSANNAH!" A three-act farcical comedy! entitled "Oh! Susannah!" will he produced for tho first time in Wellington by a new amateur comedy company, styled "The Thespians," under the direction cf Mr. Culford Bell. Tho play, which ran for several hundred nights a few years ago at tho Royalty Theatre, London, is a very funny ono, full of comic situations, and it Bhould provoke much laughter. The comedy is clean, and tho players, who havo been rehearsing hard for some limo under Mr. Culford Bell, aro expected • to give a good performance. Tho proceeds go to the Clara Rogers Comforts Fuud in connection with tho Y.M.O.A. convalescent huts at Walton-on-Thamcs. The nlay will be given under vice-regal patronage at the Concert Chamber on Wednesday and Thursday, December 5 nnd 6.