ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 192, 3 May 1918, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

"SEVEN DAI'S' LEAVE." Allan Wilkio will produce "Sovcn Days' Leave" for two more nights only at llio orand Opera Houso—this, with a matinee on Katurday afternoon, will be the last throe performances of I his etirrinf? drama. On Monday night Messrs. Den and John Fuller will present 'ho English fltur in another play by Walter Howard, the. author of "Seven Days' Leave." This is "The Story of Ihe Jiosnry," written oil tht! present war. It is (Inscribed as a drama of rapid and picturesque action which has had undoubted' triumphs in England. America, Africa and Australia. The play promisee to he rieh in romance, and llirills. inclmlinjr the destruction of «. house by a bomb from the air, and a duel which eventually sets wrong rijrhf, and makes "The Story of the Eosary" a happy one after all. There are eleven scenes in the play. Sfr. Williie will have «i fine part a« Cantnfn Paul domain. "The Story of tho liosnry" must not he confused with any other play of similar title. The box plan in now open at tho Bristol. PISK' JUBILEE SINOEES. To-morrow night the Fiak Jubilee Singeri will conclude their most suecessfnl wason at tho (Jonoert Chamber. Kcquests aro being received by ths management for special jiumlioje to be euiig on Saturday, and they will he complied with an far as possible. Jn addition there v>lll bo a number of items entirely new- to Wei: lington. To-morrow afternoon there will be a special children's mitince, when children will be admitted for Is. and 6d. The box plan is at the Bristol. THE QUEEN'S THEATIiE. The renown "f the Vox .super feature, "A Daughter of the God?" is so well established throughout the world that :ui elaborate narration of the grandiose nature of this great film would be Quito Bilporduous. His to be ecrcened at the Queen's Theatre, Ouba Street, during this week, and is bound to be received by largo and enthusiastic audiences. Of important note to those who wore unable to ioo "A Daughter of the Gods" on the oocasion of its first screening in Wellington a short timo ago, is the fact that on the present occasiou the prices of mission have rot been rained above the priceß charged for ordinary programmes. A specially-augmented orchestra, has beon engaged for the occasioa, and the film is being shown in its full length. KING'S THEATRE. To-nieht will see the final screening at the King's Theatre of "Enliffhtcn Thy Daughter." At the change of projrammo

to-morrow tho Goldwyn Corporation will present Mae Marsh in their second great sujjer-feature, "Polly of tho Olroue." This ie described as a (treat Bpcclaclc. with a beautiful story running through it. Tho story, written by Ifarfcarut Mayo, in said to foe intensely human and of universal appeal, awakening n einories of childhood days when the jlamour of the rircue tonched our voang lives with romance. A fltrikinu scene is t'jat in which John Douglas, tho young minister, reproves his indignanf parishioners who object to tho circus girl crossing the threohold of tho parsonage. .Humour and pivthos aru intimately blended in this picture. EKFBESS TiTEATBB. "The Awakening," the etory dealing with the lifo of the r.tudent quarter of Paris, will be screened at the Empress Theatre for the last time to-night. Commencing to-morrow, another World I'ilm, entitled "Qat,'es of Gladnees," starring little Mndge Evans and Goorgo MacQuurrio, will be shown. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. Olivo Thomas will bid farewell to patrons of Everybody's Theatre to-day in "Betty Takus a Hand." Margery Wilson laet seen as Drown Eyes in "Intolerance," will appear to-morrow in a Triangle drama, "Flaraca of Chance." Tho story deals with a Now l'ork stenographer who, anxious to "do her bit," writes three young Allied soldiers held in Gorman prison oamps, but does not suspect that her employer is a German spy, who is conveying secret messages to the Fatherland on the apparently blank writing paper shy is using. 'One of her letters accidentally falls into the hands of one of the tluoa Alliod prißonera. It discloses a secret message. His leleano ifl effected, and his return to America throws the girl into a panic, for she ha» mado her letters entirely too personal. The mystery of tho plot is not revealed until the last mopient, I and it is eaid to be distinctly moving. | , , I The members of tho Royal Comic Opera ' Company will paee through Wellington this morning, en route to Wanganin. The English Pierrots, now in Sydney, commence an extended 6easou at the Concert Chamber on May 16.