ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 11, 8 October 1919, Page 5

ENTERTAINMENTS

"DE LUXE A-NME." That soundly-played mystery drama "Do Luxe Annie" attracted a largo and intensely interested audience to the Grand Opera House lust evening. The play is alive with interest from beginning to end, and tho manner in which the erring Annie is again restored to her better 6e'i.f is extremely fascinating. Tho play ends most inteiestingCy. (Annie, whose brain has been recently operated upon, is seen lying wan and weak in bed, her head bound up, a nurse in attendance, and tho surgeon on tho watch. Here Misg Polini's acting becomes a matter of voice control, and very wonderfully does she simnlato the weak, toneless voice of tho invalid—too tired to indulge in inflection. All in the room are waiting to see if tho operation has been successful. Alf. depends on the patient's tuiswes- to the question: "And what is the last thing, you remember before you became ill?" "Somebody snatching my brooch, away from me—then hitting me on. the head!" The doctor heaves a great sigh and beams with delight—tho woman's memory has been restored. Miss Poiini is excellent in the role of Annie, a character with.all the colours of the rainbow in its changing Inbods; and yet one that could hero and thero bo so very easily made ludicrous. Tho company is quite sound, good work being done 'by Miss Georgia Harvey, Miss Qiive Wilton, Messrs. John Femside, Harmnn Lee, A. E. Greonaway, end C. Bertal. Tho staging of the pday is most artistic. "De Luxe Annio" will be continued until next Monday evening, and on Tuesday "Eyes of Youth" will be staged for the first time here. The box plans for tho "Eyes of Youth" season will be opened at the Bristol Piano Co. on Friday morning. • "DAMAGED GOODS." The; current picturisation of Eugene Brieux's propaganda play "Damaged Goods," now being shoivn at the Town Ha*H and Concert Chamber simultaneously, deals with a Subject that Bhould ba veiled to no adult. In Sydney tho censor barred all children nnder 1G from attending tho theatre where the picture was shown; here the sexes are divided. The picture is a means of bringing home to the public the truth in respect to tho appalling prevalence of the red In the picture tho story is vividly told by skilled players, and thero is no lack of interest from end to end.