ENTERTAINMENTS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 253, 20 July 1921, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

COMIC OPERA SEASON. Each euocoeding Gilbert and SuUiTan attraction places a strain on the seating accommodation at the Grand Opera House, crowded houses being the rule. The final performance of "folanthe” waa given last evening, and was enjoyed to the full. Commencing at the matinee to-day, and continuing to-night and to-morrow evening, "H.M.S. Pinafore" will bo staged, with the following cost: —Mr. Charles Walenn as Sir Joseph Porter, Mr. James Hay as Ralph Raokstraw, Mr. Frederick Hobbs as Captain Corcoran, Mr. Albert Kavanagh as Pick Deadeye, Mr. John Ralston as the boatswain, gnd Mr. Jock Kinson ns the mate. Miss Patti Russell appears as Josephine, Miss Molly Tyrell as Buttercup, and Miss Beryl Walkely as Hebe. "H.M.S. Pinafore" will be preceded by "Trial, byJury," -kith Messrs. Charles Mettam, Albert Kavanagh, Jack Ralston, tyid Miss Grose Crotty in the lending roles. On. Friday evening and at the Saturday matinee "Princess Ida” will fill the bill, and on Saturday evening the company will make their farewell in a revival of the popular "Yeomen of the Guard." QUEEN’S THEATRE. Sir James Barrie ie the author of "The Twelve pound Look," which is now showing at the Queen’s Theatre. The story is of a girl who is unhappy with • her hueband, who eaves her allowance until she has the necessary .£l2 to purchase a typewriter, and then runs away to teat life on her own, determined to prevent the coming of "The Twelve Pound Look” into any pther womans eyes. Gertrude M'Coy is the star in the unique deteotive drama entitled "Angel, Esquire,” which is in support. KING’S THEATRE. Thia week’s feature at the King’s Theatre is Charles Ray in "Peaceful Valley *’ his first picture from his own studio’. He takes the part of a rustics lad, and in, that particular class of work is without rival. The rustic settings are beautiful, and the picture affords an hour of complete enjoyment. The announcement of next week’s change Mary Pickford in o f tho Hills, will be looked forward to by nil lovers of the klnema. Mies Pickford’s absence from the screen for over a year, and the fact that this is her first picture after her marriage, will give added interest to "Hearts o' the Hills," in which she plays an entirely new role —that of a mountain girl fighting her feudist battles and afraid of nobody nor anything. The plan opens at the Bristol to-dny, and the picture, for six nights only, will comnience on Friday. everybodyTtheatre, An interesting drama of wedded life is "My Husband’s Other Wife,” screening at Everybody’s Theatre this week. The tnain interest of the picture lies in the problem with which a husband is faced when the woman he had divorced attempts to fascinate him once more. Sylvia Breamer and a strong snpnorting cast present the play excellently. EMPRESS THEATRE. At the Empress Theatre the main' item ■f the current bill is a clever sensational pier, "The House of Intrigue." An unsophisticated girl falls into the hands of a gang of crooks, and is used by them n« a means of covering up their malpractices. Included in the supporting bill is a Snooky comedy entitled A Trayful of Trouble." COLOSSEUM ROLLER RINK. Few who once visit the Colosseum Rink are able to withstand the attractions of a second visit. Roller, skating Ims a fascination that makes it something of a craze, and this explains the remarkable way'in which the public continues to patronise the Vivian Street rink. The rink is competently managed, and beginners receive every attention and encouragement from the staff of inetructors. Each day is conveniently divided into four sessions. At night there is music from a good archestra. "CHU CHIN CHOW." A Melbourne critic writes of "Chu Chin Chow": "Nothing that has been written about 'Chu Chin Chow' in the preliminary notices, nothing that has been promised, has aroused anticipation of such a blend of sheer exquisite, beauty, fascination, poetical charm, and peifect chromatology as the reality proved. A gorgeous production,* not or colour, have been used in a descriptive sense. Words too poor, and misnomers that led almost to an erroneous. expectation. There ie not the gorgeous in the usual acceptance of th* term; nothing of not. that is, the crude, obtrusive sense of colour which strikes the eye. AU . is harmony, sumptuous, splendid, arresting. Yes, like the glow and colour ot the sky, of the peacock, the opal, the most beautiful, colourful things in Nature blended and harmonious, astoundInglv lovely, but neither gorgeous nor riotous. It is a wonderful mosaic of full, rich, subtly-blended colours, seen under the golden glow of warm sunshine, which forms visions of Eastern magic beauty, broken at intervals by exquisite little gems of intaglios which relieve the eve and captivate the imagination M does a perfect vivid little picture All the characters of the story move harmoniously and naturally, with appropriate and charming music from time to tinrn of haunting rhythm. The Wellington season will commence at the Grand Onera. House on Tuesday night next, and the box plans for the first six nights and two matinees will open at the Bristol this morning. There will be a. matinee every Wednesday and Satuiday throughout the season. SCOTTISH FATHThe Scottish Fair and Clan Gathering, which is to lie opened by Ito M orshii the Mayor (Mr. R. . A. M right M.P.) on Saturday night, is expected to eclipse anv carnival previouslv held m the city. For some months a large number of workers have been working assiduously, and a vast amount of articles, both useful and ornamental, have been made up. Various competitions will he held each evening, for which and useful prizes are offered. Raffles, for which a permit has hern secured from the Minister of Internal Affairs, will, as usual at a gathering of this description, be held each evening, and th* prizes for dime form an artistic and attractive display. Side-shows will form a novel and interesting feature, and each evening an elaborate programme will be presented. The convener. Air. J. C. Cusack, and the organising secretary, Mr. Alex. Sutheiland, of Invercargill, have left no atone unturned to present to the public something out of the ordinary. The proceeds are in aid of the Wellington Caledonian Society. The fair is to run for six nights in the Town Hall.