ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 5, 1 October 1919, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

, "* EMELtE POLINI SEASON. j Tho box plans will opeii at the Bristol | Piano Company this morning for the J. j mid N. Tait dramatic season, which, ow-1 ing to this new regulations regarding steamers taking five days between Sydney and Wellington, will now not open until Holiday next, flio steamer is. to arrive on Saturday with the company 011 board, but will have to wait in the stream until Sunday morning. "There will, however, be 110 doubt about A outlay's opening at the Grand Opera House, as the entire production is now availing the arrival of the company. Hiss. Enielie Pnlini will' first be seen in iier characterisation of the "fake" book agent, known to the detectives as "Do Luxe Annie," and the play is said to I bo full of mystery and thrills. The cast supporting the star will include Mr. Harmon j.ee, a noted American actor, and Miss Georgia Harvey, a' clever Canadian character actress, both of whom will be making their first appearance in New Zealand. Old favourites will include Hisses Olive .Wilton . and Esther Mitchell, Messrs. A. E. Greenaway, .Tolin Fernside, ,Tohn De Lncey, Victor Fitzherbert. Norman Pearce, JTnrconrt Hare, and Charloi Bertal. The. production is in three acts and seven scenes, and the settings arc said to bo novel, one being the exact replica of an American Pullman ear. "Eyes of Youth," with its many quick changes, by •. mechanical means, will follow "De Luxe Annie." "DAMAGED GOODS." "Damaged Goods," which illustrates the effects of stifling the truth, shows the physical ruin and social devastation that confront victims of the scourge. The subject is said to be delicately handled, and there is, according to the management, an absence of suggestion and taint, so often shown in sex problem plays; it does not parade evil that good may come of it, it does not linger over the morbid to titilate perverted tastes under the pretext-of preaching a great moral lesson. The initial screening, which will be for men only, takes place at the Town Hall next Saturday evening, and from Monday sessions for Indies will be' given in the. Concert Chamber, 1 The plans are at the Bristol.