ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 98, 18 January 1918, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

J. 0. WILLIAMSON'S MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY. To-morrow evening at the Grand' Opera House, at 8 o'clock, tlie curtain will rise on the initial Wellington production of tho successful musical couiedy, ""You're in • Love," by the J. C. Williamson Company. Tho box plans. aro on view daily at the Bristol. So popular did they malio themselves during their previous seasons i here in ''So Long, Letty," and "Jligli Jinks,'' that their advent ill any play would naturally create interest, but the fact that "You're in Tiovc" has proved their moat successful and best representation has intensified the interest. "You're in Love" is brimming over, critics state, with pretty and tuneful inclodi-?, the ballets aro original and picturesque, the comedy is genuinely humorous, and always wholesome, the scenery and electric effects brilliant, and tlje dresses are a big feature of the production. Amongst tho best musical numbers perhaps the following 1 are those which found most favour with Australian playgoers, "Married Life" (Cecil Bradley and chorus), "You're in Love" (Fred. Maguire and chorus and ballot!, "Keep Off the Grass." (Connie Ediss). -Tie Will Understand" (Maud Pane.' Fred Magnire, Cecil Bradley), "Buck Tip' (William fircone and chorus), "Day Dream Isle" (Maudo Fane) and ('horns), "Snatched from the Cradle" (Alfred Frith), "Xaughty, Naughty, Naughty" (Maud Fane). "What's the Use of p?ing Lonely?" (Maud Fane and William Creene). 'I.oveland" (Maud Fane and William Greene). The ballets and dances by Miss Madgo Elliott.. Miss Gwcn Withers, Jack Hooker, and Tom Preston are. it. is said, beautiful and original. Mr. Field Fisher has a most congenial role to enact as the boatswain, and Seymour Middleton and Dorothy Purdell also have leading parts. Tho second nroffuct.ion on Saturday vrek will be "Canary Cottage," a musical farco by Oliver Jtorosco znd Elmer Harris, with lyric,? and music by Earl Carroll. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE. There 'are ou tho programme at His Majesty's Theatre this week several turns of outstanding excellence in their own line. The musical contribution of the Kennedys, for instance, is all that a musician could desire. When the Kennefiys played last night, their reward waa thunderous applause; and their response in an encore was well worthy of the first-rate performance that had gone before. It was a musical novelty in tho form of a combined rendering of "Annie Laurie,". "The Swaneo River," and Dvorak's "Humoresque." The effect of playing tho three tunes together was (contrary to expectation) anything but grotesque. Tho Klentos stage Jtn acrobatic turn that is both amusing and amazing. The bill provides the usual quantity of American entertainment, and those who wish may heav good English words .pronounced Broadway fashion. KING'S THEATUE. To-night wfll see -ihe farewell ance of "Sweetheart of the Doomed." Tomorrow Anita Stewart will be Been in "The Billions Plot," or "The Message ol the Mouse." The story deals with Henry Winthorp, financier, who through the influence of a spy. agrees to allow his vast fortune to pass into the hands of foreign Powers, believing liis own country will gain thereby. Varrie and Marcia Elmore (Julia Swayne' Gordon) work on the job together Wyna-ISinlhrop (Anita Stewart), working in hand with Concord, chief of dctectives, is finally _ responsible for the round-up of the conspirators, and tho awakening of her father to a sense of what is right. EMPRESS THEATRE. The World drama, "The Corner Grocer," will be screened for the last time this evening at the Empress Theatre. To-mor-row Ethel- Clayton will be seen in $ society drama by the World Film Company, ,"A Woman's Way." She portrays a countrj beauty who marries a city man of wealth, and is bored by the Jife of the gay circles into which he takes her. S'.owV they drift apart, until the husband becomes entangled with a clever adventuress. The story is said to be full of dramatic moments. Montague Vere appears as the lover, while Carlyle Blackwcll is the straying husband. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. "For France," the great war story, will be shown I'or the last time to-night at Everybody's Theatre. At the change tomorrow a Triangle drama, "Tho Tar Heel Warrior," will be the leading attraction. Colonel Mills is threatened by foreclosure of the mortgage on hia plantation by a loan shark. He leaves the homestead land and goes to New Yorls to raise the needful money. While thore lie falls in with a veteran friend who is making a surefire plunge on Wall Street, aud the temptation for the old uoionel is too strong. The concluding scenes aro said to be full of strong ipathos ana powerful acting.