ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 185, 1 May 1919, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

"OH! OH! DELPHINE!" Tho Royal Comic Opera Company presontcd again tho very bright and original musical comedy, "Oh! Oh! Delphine!" at tlio Grand Opera House- last niylit, and once- again a large audience was delighted with tho excellent presentation ot a show full of sparkle and gaiety. Tho funny man in the play is Mr. Phil Smith, an.l he has already established a reputation with tho theatre public of Welling, ton as a comedian with effective end original methods of getting ttte laughs where they belong. Tho music is tuneful always. Miss Gladys Moncrielf and Miss Olive Godwin are vocalists heard to much advantage, and they are both actresses accomplished in their art nnd experienced. Mr. Eeginald Roberts has a good part in the piece, and he makes the most of his opportunities. Very heavy booking is reported for the four revivals of "Katinka," which is to bo staged to-morrow evening. "Katinlta ,, is so evenly balanced in the genoral perspective between the histrionic ' actions and the operatic allurements that the piece swings onward in a flowing crescendo of approval that culminates in a great success. The atmosphere is engagingly and wittily merry, 'n'itli <i ve "- measured undercurrent, of poetic tenderness, and the performance ripples along blithely and tunefully from tlie rise to tho fall of tho curtain.'. Miss Florence Young, Miss Gladys Moncriefi, Miss Olive Godwin, Mr. Reginald Roberts, Mr. Jack Ralston, and Mr. Oliver Peacock have excellent singing parts, nnd there are innumerable comedy scenes in which Mr. Phil Smith and Leslie Holland are at their beat. Only four revivals can be staged of "Kati'nka," and the season will clo.w on Wednesday and Thursday next, when "The Pink Lady" will bo revived.

KING'S THEATRE. A new star, Miss Tallulnh Bankhard, New York's famous society beauty, ia appearing at the King's Theatre in conjunction with Mr. Tom Moore in. a Goldwyu production, "Thirty a Week." The supporting programme includes the Keystone comedy, "Lost, a Cook," the eighth episode of the serial, "The Scarlet Runner," tho last part of the scenic trip "From Fuirlie to Mount Cook," Hud an up-to-duto Gazette. Miss Anue Sullivan's singing invariably wins double encores. .EMPRESS THEATRE. . - ■■' How a man wus saved on the threshold of an electric chair by a miraculous stroko of good fortune is shown in "A Game witli Fate," the attraction this week at the Empress Theatre, in which Harry ftlorey and Betty Blythe have the leading, roles, Strong supporting items are also shown. Mr. Melyin sings nightly, "Keep, the Home Fires Burning.-" ' EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. "Back to the Woods," a Goldwyn ((ranin, is being shown: at Everybody's Theatre. Mabel' Nonnund, who is the star, is first seen as a. fashionable young lady in a big-city, and later as a school feacher in a small village. It is in the latter piece that all the humorous incidents occur. Episode nine of "The House of Hate" is included in the programme.