ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 93, 12 January 1918, Page 9

ENTERTAINMENTS

"YOU'R-E IN -LOYE." For the 'present tour of the Dominion iI. o. Williamson, Ltd., arc scnc[iug two or their biggest successes, "You'ro Jc liovo" and "Canary Coinage," and from all accounts thoy rnalto a welcome departure from fiome of tho old traditions ol 2omio opera. Tho opening attraction next Saturday evening in tho Grand Opora uouso is "You're in Love." Tho aii'B arc ijuaintly original, the dialogue is crisp and mirthful. Airy graces, charming frocks, and beautiful ballets add to the sharrn of tho ensomble. The necessary cohesion is supplied by an iron-clad contract entered into by two adorable young people to eschew all billing and. cooing, hand-pressing, lover-like salutations— everything, in fact, that makes love worth whiln for a year after marriage. A man. hating man-eating aunt, -who believes that thero is too mucli promiscuous marriage nowadays, stands over tho bride meanwhile. Tho honoymooncrs (tlueo days out on board tho High Hope, with a crowd of irresponsible. l )) mset only under tho eye of Gcorgiana's guardian, who manages to bo on tho spot tn damn their srdour whenever tlioir bottled-up emotions threaten to seethe over, with a reminder "claußO something, paragraph something else" in tho contract. However, [ore (with tho help of a lawyer, a missionnry, a will) at length triumphs, and happiness reigns supremo. "You're in Love" can only bo staged in Wellinqton for six nights. The second production will lie "Canary Collage." Tlio box plan for the Cu-st six I'i'.'hls onens at the Bristol I'iani Co. on 'Wednesday morning next at 5 o'clock. This company lisis just conehuled a- phenomenally successful season in Auckland, and is at present playing the principal overland towns. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Matinee and evening performances of the bright and attractive vaudeville bill which hac nightly entertained patroni during tho week at His Majesty's Theatre, are announced. On Monday a new bill will bo presented. TIIE KING'S THEATRE. A strange and wonderful story is told in the Triangle play, "The Sweetheart ol tho Doomed," the star feature to be screened at the .King'a to-day, at 2 p.m. Louise Glaum, with a powerful support ing cast of the,best' Trianglo players, it tho star, and m this role she haß opportunities of lino acting in a coaipletj change of character. Betrayed when a mero girl, she liveß her life for rovenge Then comes iuto her life a young, cleanliving soldier who. in tho words of the drama, "recreates her" and her whole view of lifo Buffers a startling change. Slit breaks off the intriguo which she is carrying on with a French general, and risks her lifo in tho trenches for a glimpse ol her lover. Sho is' arrested, and brought before a military leader, who has been ono of her victims. Begging for lcavo tc remain, she is given a strange command EMPRESS TJIEATR-E. A ijuaiiit contrast is _ offered by the two leading characters in "The Corner' Grocer," tho World film drama to b( screened at tho Empress to-day. Lew Fields plays an old money-making but kind-heartod merchant to tho life, while Madgo Evans is adorablo as a litt-lc orphan who is adopted by the old! man, and eventually brings him happiness. The story is aelapted from tho play which ran for no less than three years in Nc-k York. It is a melodrama of the reallj human type. Tho grocer, through natural shrewdness amasses a fortune, and sends his son to collego. When the boy gets back Ilia ideas aro too lofty for common, piaco business, and bccomcw involved with au adventuress. He forges his father's name, and ruins him. The littlo orphan, now grown up, proves a tower of strength to tho old folkß in their bitter trouble, and to retrieve the boy from disgrace. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. In "For Fra-nce," tho Greater Yitagraph drama to bo soreonoe! at .Everybody's today, two new Vitagraph stars mako their bow to picture audiences.. "Billy Howe Rrst appears as the daughter of a French professor, who sings tho "iln.rsellaiee at a diplomatio garden iparty in Paris P l ' lol to tho outbreak of thd great war. She is a brunette with adorable stage wayE, and has great emotional powers, as is witnessed in tho scene where Bhe lia-s to submit to the brutal embraces of a Ilun officer into whoße power slle fails. The war scenes aro fresh and realistic. They aro mostly in open warfare, as it existed in the first invasion of France. In addition is tho eleventh instalment or "The Secret .Kingdom, !Tho White Witch." AMERICA AND THE WAR. There is at present visiting Wellington Professor Thomas 0. Trueblood, Professor if Oratory in the University of Michigan, U.S.A. Professor Trueblood has been quolj >d by some of the leading scholars of America as one of the greatest professors of oratory in America to-day. ttliue licre he lias consented to speak at the Of.C.A. Rooms on Sunday afternoon at 5.30 o'clock on "America and the War. l'bis address, which is for men only, should attract a large audience, The professor has also agreed to givo a Mark rwain" recital at tho Y.M.O.A. Rooms, Willis Street, on Monday evening next at ! o'clock. This lecture will be open to ladies and gentlemen. At the Concert Chamber, Prof. Anderson ivill present for two n-ghts, Tuesday and Wednesday next, his interesting hypnotic Mitcrtainment, that is promised to cvoko :oars of laughter. Thero will appear Mr. Blight (club and Bword display), and jt-hcr artists, serious aud comic.