ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 39, 9 November 1918, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

THE GONDOLIEES. Tho Gondoliers will be repeated for the last tiuio to-night. The season has been a most successful one, uud to-night's final performance- is expected to be a memorable oue. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. Tho thoino of 'the Select feature, "Tho Knife," the star picture to bo screened at Everybody's Theatre to-day, is a most unusual ono, and it is said to be treated in a remarkable manner. It ia the liret production made by Alice Brady with her own company. It gives flno opportunities for Jicr acting, and it is claimed that, she has never done more convincing work in hor screen career. The story is that of a young wealthy v girl who has all the superetitiousness of the Southern States, and who, while visiting her fiance in New York, goes to consult a fortuneteller. The fortune-teller is in reality a white sl.ivo trader, and the girl gets abducted. Her lover contrives to trac« her. and at first is nearly distraught when he learns what had happened. His friends prevent him from killing tho two white slavers who arc- the culprits, and'he decides to take a terrible vengeance. The situations provided are very dramatic, and tho end of the story is finely contrived.

KING'S THEATRE. A war picture which ie said to be surprisingly absorbing, quite apart from the war interest, will be shown at the King'e Theatre to-day at 2.30. It is entitled "Tie Ueigian," and is <i U.S. Exhibitor's releaso, with Walker Whiteside and Valentine Grant respectively as the hero and heroine. There is a beautiful love story woven through it, while tho background is made up of a- scries of war incidents which deal chiefly with tho spy Bystem. The ecene opene in Belgium, where the hero is a fisher lad with a genius for sculpture. Ho is discovered by art oxperts, and goes to Paris, where he forgets the eweetheart of hie more humble days, and gets into the toils of a woman who is a spy. Later lie returns to Belgium, and in the fighting he loses his sight, Then it is that his little sweetheart mirsea him. How ho recovers hie sight, finds out the other woman's treachery, and how hie earlier love thus reawakens, is an idyllic romance.

EMPRESS THEATRE. Taylor Holmes is tho star of the Kssanay drama, "Efficiency Edgar's Courtr Bhip," to be shown at tho Empress Theatre to-day. I'his is described as an unusual story, and tells of a young man who had made a success of business by means of efficiency, who applies the same methods to making love. The situations arising from this are at times very humorous, especially as ho has a rival who believes in adopting the cavalier method of winning the young lady's affections.

ALEXANDER WATSON FAREWELLS. The .public will have two more opportunities of hearing that talented entertainer, Mr. Alexander Watson, who is announccd to give two farewell performances .at the Concert Ohamber on November 15 and 16. Hundreds of people wore unable to gain admission during the recent season, so the management decided to abandon several country bookings in order to return to Wellington. Mr. Watsou will conclude his New Zealand tour at Auckland on' November 30. Intending patrons are advised to book their seats. Plane aro at tho Bristol.

AETORAFT THEATRE. A now doublo feature bill will bo offered at the Artcraft Theatre to-day. The first attraction ie "Tho White Man's Law," ivhioh store Scssue Hayakawa, and is a powerful story of tho events in the lives of two men and a girl who are thrown together in the wilderness outside Sierra Leone. Tho second feature is "Naughty Naughty" which ie headed by Enid Uennett. The heroine, who is the pretty daughter of a country banker, leaves her quiet home and goes to New York but subsequently returns to her home, taking with her a number of city ideas, which aetound the village. Th etory grips from the start.