ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 265, 29 July 1918, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

"MY FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY." Aeuiu on Saturday the picture, "My Pom' Ycarß in Germiiny," was suceossfully produced at the King's Theatre to crowded acßsioiiß. The picture ifi an a<liiplatiini of the liooli' written by Mr. James W Gerard, who was for four years American AmbiiKiiador to the Hun Court at Berlin Tho film is realistic iu every detail, and is a masterly indictment of tho methods of the unspcaka.ule Il««- Owing to the great success of the picture last week there will ho two nessiotie to-day, at 2.30 and 7.45 p.m. Tho hoi plan is at the Bristol. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. "The Floor Below," the star film showins at. Evervbody'o Theatre this wcclt anil featuring llabcl Normand, is a flue picture, tellliiK a line story. Mabol Normand has been absent from tlio screen for about, two yearß, and she reappears in the "Floor Be'.o'.v," with all her old charm and vivacity, (and great emotional powers. "The Floor Below" deals with a newspaper girl, who gets discharged for being a hit, of a tomboy, but who is given another chance provided she can carry through successfully a difficult couimisEion for her paper. Tire effort to execute this commission loadß her into some very dramatic, situations, in which love plays n sinp;iilnr.ly important part. The story ia a distinctly cootl one, full of thri " !lI1(1 '"• tense interest, with flashes of humour which enable Mabel Normand to eive full scope to her undoubted abilities. The picture is one that, the majority of picture patrons will not care to miss. Another episode of "The Double Cross" is nhown, and like all the others it is thrllline and mystifying. Those ".-ho hnvc followed this serial film cannot afford to miss this episode. The 'Tathe Gazette," showincr the latest topical events, is also screened. EMVRF.eS THEATRE. Excellent a.ttendcuces were experienced nt all sessions at the Empress Theatre on Saturday, when Alice Brady, in "Tho Spiirß of Sybil," was the central attraction. The picture is from the World Film Company, In five reels, and depicts Alice Brady as Sybil Drew, the poor relative of a rich aunt, who decidos that, before, finally disposing of her inheritance in Sybil's favour, the latter must "win her spurs' by earning her own living. 'With a total capital of 100 dollars Sybil departs for New York, and putfl up at an expensive hotel. There she meets Br. Ross Alger, a rising young medical man. At the hotel a Mrs. FenfleM claims Sybil's acquaintance, and as this lady's reputation is of the shadiest, Svbil is naturally the object of suspicion. Sybil is almost at the end of her Blender resources, and after soino ups and downs succeeds in obtaining a uoe'» companion to an eccentric old lndy. There she- meets Paul Berwick, her employcr'6 nephew, who is a thorough ' waster." One day Sybil Is knocked over in the street by a motor-car, and owing to one of Mrs. Fenfleld's cards being found in her possession she is taken to her residence. This house is really a fortiiowMe gambling ulnce, and worse, her position is one of greflt peril. mten«l--iied hy the fact that Berwick is a patron n f n, s Tosnrt. However. ?fter an exciting serleß of hnpnenlngs. Svbil is roscued by *he timelv efforts of Dr. Alger, who at last learn'" the truth, end the ?*ory ends s* a good storv should. The latest "Topical Budget" is included in an interesting supporting series. ' "THE TUXf! BOYS ARE HT.RT',." , "The Bing Boyß Aro Here," tho big spectacular revue, is to be presented by J. 0. Williamson, Ltd., at the Grand Open'. House, commencing on Y/edncsday night. This-production is in two acts and eleven "panels," all of which exhibit a range in light ontertainment, with,, numerous songs, dances, delightful ballets, magnificent Bcenic effects and tableau*, with beauty and burlesdiio all delightfully .iumbiod. Tho ballets incline more than ordinary to lable.iux, hoi ft'original and cffeciivc. _ In this line /'Milly the Milliner " "Firelight Fancy," "The Kijjliup: Walk. "If iou \Yorc the Only Boy In tho World, and I Were the Only Girl,". : "Good-byc-e." and the gorgeous and. remarkable Obu Chin Chow scone, with song and chorus, as the crowning triumph, may be cited as a low of the examples. The dressing is stated to be moot lavish and costly. Miss JSinnie Love's dresses, for example, are stated to be a revelation in stylo, novelty and value. During tho> performance she :s foid to wear costumes to the value of over .£1C«1. This revue lioh already 2*o nc-r----formanccfl to its credit in Pyduey and Melbourne alone. The cast includes jack Cannot, Leslie Holland, Clyde Coon. Charles Howard, Fred. England, K"." '-'•'>• ton, Robert M'Kinnon, William S/ewrtrt, Billy Hearne. Minnie Love, Rc<?:na Senton, Nellie Payne, Jiyrllo Power. Jennie Ome, Msue linlrd and Je«io a-ffyn. In* box plan for tho tec niyjiU' feason ;.a advertised to open at the Bristol tlim morning at nine o'clock.