ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 97, 17 January 1918, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

J. C. WILLIAMSON'S MUSICAL COMEDY COUP AMY. "You're In Love,' which is to be the opening production of J. C. Williamson's, utiv Lngush Musical pomedy Company's season, which begins at the Grand Opera House ou Saturday evening, is, it is said, replete with catchy music; it has a cohercul, and interesting plot, and is well cast and beautifully dressed and staged. "You're In Love" enjoyed a record run in Sydney, and it lias just completed a remarkably successful season in Melbourne. The principal vocal number in "You're In Love" is "You're In Love," suns, at first !>y Mr. Fred Maguire with a refrain rendered delicious by the lady choristers; it pervades the play throughout. Mr. Alfred Frith, who represents a South African missionary, id said to create screams of laughter the whole time he is on the siage. Miss Connie Ediss plays i!u> baby-snatcher. She has not been unlucky with her three husbands—merely unsuccessful—they either died to escape her or ran away. Therefore, she is a manhater. Mr. Field Fisher has a very good comedy part to interpret as Boatswain I'inklovc, a nautical misanthrope. Miss Cecil Bradley has already installed herself as favourite with Australian playgoers; she .sings and acts daintily, and she possesses a pleasing personality. Mr. William Green, is seen to great advantage in "You're In Love," and so is Mr. Fred. Maguire. Mr. .Tack Hooker, Miss Qwen Withers, and Mr. Tom Preston, who do some clever, eccentric and acrobatic dunces. Miss Madge Elliott, the premiere danseuse. cxcc-ulcs, with the aid of the full balM. a Hawaiian costume dance. "Canary.Cottave" will be produced on Saturdny week. The box plans for the six niElits of "You're Trt Love" are now available at the Bristol. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. , Patrons of His Majesty's thia week are finding excellent entertainment in the, varied programme tha; the management Biibmits. The most important feature is, perhaps, the tuni of the American artists. Mr. Tod' M'Lean and lliie Gcnevieve Lee. The pair present a dtver playlet that is bound to tickle the fancy of any audience. New artists arcs Mickey and Koße (two juvenile dancers) and the Kennedys (musicians). The bnils of the programme is supplied by entertainers with whose merits regular patrons are by now familiar. KING'S THEATRE. "Sweetheart of the Doomed," a Triangle feature of unusual dramatic power, is now screening at the King's Theatre. Throughout the picture some magnificent scenery is introduced, and the final chapters of the story are very pathetic. The supporting bill includes a very tine industrial subject, dealing with the wheat industry in Canada, the Gaumout Graphic, and other items. EMPRESS THEATRE. A powerful drama, entitled "The Corner. Grocer," is the principal attraction at the Einpre3s Theatre this week. Madge Evans is featured as a little orphan who is left penniless at the tender age of eight, and who manages to retrieve a boy from disgrace. The story has a fine ending amidst particularly beautiful' surroundings. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. A Vitagraph feature, entitled • "For France," is the chief attraction at Everybody's Theatre this week, and crowded attendances rnle daily. The play is introduced on i>n elaborate scale, in keeping with the best traditions of the Vitagraph Company. Tlic supporting items include the 11th chapter of "The Secret Kingdom," -''The White Witch," the Pathe Gazette, and other items.