ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 116, 2 February 1918, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

PICTURES AT THE GHAND OPERA j HOUSE. For the first time in New Zealand Messrs. >]. C. Williamson, Ltd., will present two features on the ono programme. Tile season will start at tlie Grand Opera Honso on Monday. "The Spy System" is described as a tliriliiug motion picture exposure ot the enemy secret service agents in America. Dustin Farnuni is starred as Mark Quaintaiiee, a member of a patriotic league that does nothing but discuss the war as an academic question.. _• ith the .tceline that is far removed from them personally. He is suddenly put 011 his metal by an old army officer who is trying to arouse the idlers to a sense of the grave danger besetting their couutry from the activities of German spies. Quaintance volunteers to go to Berlin and get a list of these spies, and his subsequent adventures make a thrilling story. The second feature is "Babes in the Woods." and the rox Company are offering the first of the wonderful kjddio series enacted by a cost of children and headed by two clcver child ; nrfi'iiq, Francis Carpenter and A'irginia i Leo Corbin. The season will run for sir j nights and hv;> matinees, and the plan ! is at the Bristol. | HIS MAJKSTrS TfIKATHE. ! Among the sirtisU appearing at His : Majesty's Theatre nigiiuy are Walter : M'Kay (the "merry musical k-nut), Kelly . and Drake (a pair jf exceptionally bright j entertainers), the De liooviers ("living ; statues"), and ltd. Al'Lean and Genevieve ] Lee (who present a dramatic sketch, en- ! tided "lieyond Price"); stanhope's Kevue | Co. supplies h::ll 'of the programme. KING'S THEATRE. Douglas Fairbanks, as a penniless artici driven 10 uespeituc straits, is the star of "Flirting with Fate," the Triangle drama to be screened at tiie King's Theatre today Jewel Carmen ia the leading lady. The plot is said to he unique ami packed with ingenious surprises. The artist, tireu of life's struggle, hires a professional as sassin to take his life, but later he finds that he ha§ been left a fortune, and, of course, is then anxious to cal 1 the arrangement off. Ono of the terms of the contract. however, was that the artist was not to know when or how the execution was to take place. The adventures he lias in trying to dodge the doom that awaits him and locate the assassin are many and exciting. EMPRESS THEATRE. The success of flarrie Marschel's picture, "The Kid from Tirnaru," haß led to its being transferred to the Empress .Theatre 1 for this week, beginning this afternoon at) 2.15. Motion picture studio iife surrounda the other attraction to ba screened to-day, 1 "A Girl's Folly." Robert. Warwick will bo seen as a movie star, who encounters"the ] little heroine when he is acting in a drama which has to have a country setting.- He takes a fancy to her, and takes her to the city where' the . main studios are situated. There through his influence she is given a part, and enters into the reckless gaiety of the life. Soon, she learns the price she is expected til pay, and her cßcapo is a matter of great good fortune. Doria Kenyan and June Elviflge have the leading female parts. • ' EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. "Dead Shot Baker," a Greater Vitagraph drama, is to be screened at Everybody's Theatre to-day. The stars arc William Duncan and Caril Holloway. The story concerns a young woman who ie loved by one of the finest men of the land, but she is fascinated by a man from the city. The incidents that follow are said to be lull of excitement, ind the story is remarkable for its surprise twists. In addition will be shown the 14th instalment of "The Secret Kingdom," "The Portrait of a King." MARVELLOUS MALIXI. A world-wide travelled conjuror, who has appeared before almost all the Royal perBonagea in the world, is to make his first appearance in Ne'.v Zealand at tile Concert Chamber of the Town Hall next Saturday night. This artist, Malim, has just concluded a complete tour of Australia, where lie was acclaimed by the Press as one of the most wonderful artists in legerdemain that has been seen there. Malmi s "magic" is described as most bewildering, the more so because.he disdains to use any apparatus whatever, relying on Ills digital dexterity to perplex his audiences. An Adelaide paper Eaya of Malim: Ho is ju»t a living wonder, a prestidigitalcur in the completes! sense of. the word. . ■•He is unlike , all other conjurorsj whiist 11 Melbourne paper declares that Malim commcnoes where the others' leave off. _ Tho season here will be limited, but Maliti! will crowd into it the best of Ins feats. Tho box plan, whielr is at the Bristol, will bo opeucd on Monday.