ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 282, 17 August 1918, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

"KOMANOE." "Boinancc," which is bcinp presented by the Williamson Company, of which Miss KtttlilcHi: JiacDoiiell is tho most featured of the players, is having a good season in Wellington. There have been crowded audiences now at the three performances of this very remarkable and very interestins play. The plot, in brief, is the etory of the I'ifo problem of a woman who early in her youth fails to take at the flood tlic tide which lends on to happiness of an abiding port. She has the appurtenances of eo-c.Tllfld happiness, but shn Uvea to learn that brilliance and wealth are but dead sea fruit. The problem is Eubtlc and delicate, and the characters of the leading roles are not obvioui! or easy. Miss MacDonell line to play the part of the brilliant stasre favourite, who would at the end of her youth fain become tho wife of' a good man, but for tho things flic has done and tho thing she has been, and shi! plays the part with exquisite reiiucinent of taste, and with supremo ability. Mr. Charles Waldron has tho part of the good man in the piece, and ho plays it with restraint and steadiness. Mr. Koy liedgravo plays the part of the other man in tho trianele—a good fellow who livea for the day and doesn't care. His performance is a sound one. The cast is a large one, and the other parts itre 6atiflfactorily filled bv players of repute. "Romance" will be played for the last tinic to-night. KDfC'S THEATRE. A Goldwyn feuture, entitled "Nearly Married." will bo tho leading attraction at the King's- Theatre to-day. Ma<lge Kennedy is featured in tho leading role, and sho is said to reach the high-wafer mark of art. She is a- charming bride, and everything would have gone well, and she and her husband would have got safely away on their honeymoon, had it pot hoen for her brother. The result was ft divorce instead of a honeymoon. Hut tho two Ktill loved each oilier, with tha result that when they casually met ono day, before tho divorco had boon granted, they decided to elope. The complications which arise mako some irresistibly humorous situations, bnt through it all thorp is an r.lmost tragic element at high tension. An additional feature will bo one of 0. Henry's miniature masterpieces, entitled "Tho Gift.? of the Magi," an appealing story of New York life.

THE SOAKIiET- TItOUBADOUIiS: Thn music, song, and story of the Scarlet Troubadours gave pleasure last ovening to another largo audience at the Concert Chamber. The programme is an attractive one, and every member, of the combiuation works effectively in malting the success of the entertainment. Mies Ivy Davis and Miss Madoline Knight both scored in their respective lines, and Messrs. Miller and Ford also ecored heavily. The ensemble eingins and the sketch work aro well up to the standard. The programme will be repeated this evening.

EMPRESS, THEATRE. Tho popular novelist, R. W. Chambers, is the author of thii Vltagraph drama, "The Woman Between Friends," commencing at tho Empress Tneit.ro to-day. Alice Joycf plays the leading role. Tho story tella of a, sculptor and an artist, who swore eternal friendship on the eve of the Eculptor'a marriace. Before lonir, however, the artist ran away with Ilia friend's wife, and in duo course tired of her, with tho ieBiilt that she became nn outcast, and was eventually ' UUled in an accident whioh her husband witnessed. At length tho sculptor learns that it was the artist who had robbed him of his wife. Hβ decides to bo revenged, and extracts a promise from the artist that ho will commit suicide on a certain date. In the end he relents, and tries to save his false friend and. to prevent the execution of tho promise of suicido.

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. Tho Wild Wost has been so thoroughly explored aa a field for the moving pictures that to get a fresh idea out of it is a sheer stroke of genius. This, it Iβ claimdd, has been done in the Triangle feature. "Firefly of Touch Luck," to bo screened, at Everybody's Theatre to-day. The ipicture stars Alma. .Rnlions and Wolt Whitman. Alma Rubens plays the part of Firefly, a cabaret dancer, who is forced by her worthless husband to accept an appointment at Tough Luck. When she arrives there aho finds that the place is totally deserted. However, a man arrives at tho same time owing to the fact that ho was drunk, and fell off a paesini; tra'n. Then follow an astonishing Bet of adventures, including the appearance of tlio worthless husband at a time when Firefly has fallen in love with the men with whom she had boon thrown in eontjwt. Thero aro said to bo some delightful touches of humour in the story. The twelfth op'sodo of "Tho Mystery of the Double Cross" will alao bo shown. RED CROSS PICTURE EVENT. Preparations for tho Reel Cross picture benefit at the Orown Theatro next Friday indicate that tho patriotic workers anticipate a fashionable audience. And when tho merits of the picture, 'Joan tho Woman," become better known, it will be realised that the charge of five shillings for booked seats will cusure the amuse-ment-seeker good value, with tho additional satisfaction of adding about two yards to tho Copper Trail. A special inuslcal score, which accompanies the picture, will bo rendered by an orchestra of well-known players. Seats are hemg booked at the Bristol. OAPPBKM. After a most successful tour of the South Island, Signor Cappelli, the distinguished Ttnlian operatic tenor., is gppenrinp in Wauganui. Hawcra, Stratford, New Plymouth, and Masterton, <*nd then proceeds to Blenheim and Nelson, en route to Christchuroh, which completes the original itinerary, but if oversea steamor Killings suit return visits will be paid to Wellington and Auckland. The dates for tho country tour aro advertised in this iseue.