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AMUSEMENTS.

ORERA HOUSE, Bert La Blanc's Musical Travesty Sbars will continue their successful season at the Opera Ho'use to-night, when a new revuo entitled "In Watts" will be stagod. Ballets and musical items as usual will bo features of the production, and ample scope is given Bert La Blanc and Jako Mack for their humorous work. In the vaudeville portion of the programme a number of now artists will make their appearance. Tho list is headed by Los Legarts, two'clever gymnastic performers, who were imported by the Fuller management. Chadwick and Campbell, concertina experts, will mako their reappearance, and tho Arteeus will give an acrobatic turn in which a trained dog is introduced. A playlet will be given* by Lenuon and Hill, and new items by King and Thornton, m-asical sketch artists. EVERYBODY'S THEATRE. \ Vitagraph comedy-drama entitled " Crooky " will be the principal item in tho now programmo to bo shown at Theatre to-day. Frank Daniels, a clever and original American comedian, appears in the leading role. Tha picture describes tho humorous adventures of a Sing Sing convict who escapes from prison and, as the result of mistaken identity, is adniitted to society. Another star film is a Vitagraph drama, "The Turn oU Card, featuring Harry Morey. Iho ' baumont Graphic," containing the latest war news and showing the arrival ot British prisoners in Switzerland, and a beautiful scenic picture entitled " Upon the Alsace Heights, will also bo screened. GRAND THEATRE. Clara Kimball Young has established her reputation as a moving picture actress, and tho announcement that sho would appear on the screen at the Grand Theatre was one of tho attractions on Saturday. She took tho principal part in a drama entitled | Ine Yellow Passport," a story associated with tho operations of the infamous Black Hand organisation. In the story, Sonia Sokoloft, whom Miss Young represented, is a Russian girl. She escapes from massacres at Kiev by means ■ of a yellow passport, reaches America, goes on tho' stiiae and becomes popular and wealthy. Things go welt with her until her lover discovers that she possesses a vellow passport, which, on tho face of it, casts a slur on her reputation. In tho end, however, alter passing through many tribulations, she triumphs and enjoys tho happiness she deserves. Amongst other items on toe programme there were war pictures showing French operations on the Somme. The same films will be shown to-day and to-night, with the addition of another instalment of the " Broken Coin " serial. PICTURE SHOWS. The new programme which will be presented to-night at .His Majesty's Theatre contains as the principal attraction the D. W. Griffith production of the remarkable film, " A Child of tne Paris Streots," a thrilling story of" the under-world of Parisian life. Griffith,' the master mind who produced " j.llO Birth of a Nation," has selected several of the artists associated With him in that big picture, including Mao Marsh, Robert Harron and fully Marshall, and has succeeded, it is said, iu reaching a very high degree of realism.. A napped girl is trained to become &ii export thief by an Apache gang, and it •is the story ot her life and rescue from her awful surroundings that makes tne picture. The supporting films include '"'A Tour through the Ausabla Chasm," the latest " Pathe Gazette,'' an interesting picture of the Paris Zoo and an animated' cartoon comedy. At the Queen's Theatre to-day the neiv programmo will be headed by a film entitled " Far from the Madding Crowd," adapted from Thomas Hardy's novel. The picture is by the. Hepworth Company, and features the popular actress, Florence Turner. The story tells of an impulsive and capricious but fascinating woman, upon whom suffering and tragedy are brought by her own actions. Her inability to j refrain from torturing the people whom she captivates leads to misery and breaking hearts. The drama is said to be a very powerful one. and a feature of the picture is that it is acted amongst charming rural scenery in England. The supporting films will include " Tubby Turns tho Tables," a humorous picture, and tho latest "Pathe Gazette."

The new programme at Starland today will bo headed by a picture entitled " The Crippled Hand." Tho production, which is a five-act Bluebird feature, is partly a fairy story, detailing tho adventures of a modern Cinderella. The effect's obtained in the picture aro of a distinctly novel and cuter earning sort. Tho item second in importance on the list is a. romarkablo war subject, entitled " Tho Battle of tho Somme," from which ono may obtain a vivid impression of that great struggle. It illustrates tho advance by tho French, and shows tho terriblo bombardment of the German Hues that preceeded the forward movement. "Hearts Adrift/' a film in which the famous Mary Pickford takes the principal part, .will bo shown at., the Globo Theatre to-day. It, in stated that in the character of Nina, the castaway, Miss Pickford is seen in one of her best roles Several other pictures will be screened, including the " Gaumont Gra-ohic." '•' A Child of the Paris Streets," ' which was produced by D. W. Griffith, and features the well-known player ! Mae Marsh, will be shown at tho Sydenham Theatre this evening The story : deals with life in the underground : world of Paris. Scenic, topical and ! humorous films will also bo screened. j THE SHAKESPEAREAN SEASON. Tho Shakespearean company who will inaugurate a thirteen nights' season at tho Theatre Royal, commencing next Saturday evening, intend to present' six of Shakespeare's works on a highclass scale. For the leading roles Mr Allan Wilkio and Miss Fredißwyde Hunter-Watts, both well-known English Shakespearean artists, were specially engaged. Mr Wilkio has the distinction of taking the iirst fully-organ-ised and equipped Shakespearean company through India and the Far East.

This tour, originally booked for eighteen weeks, proved so successful that it was extended to eighteen months. Miss Hunter-Watts comes of a distinguished family. Sho has tho unique record of having her two great-grandfathers buried in Westminster Abbey, tho one on the maternal sido being John Hunter, " the father of scientific surgery;" and on the paternal side Isaac Watts, the famous hymn writer and theologian. The production on Saturday will bo Shakespeare's great tragi-comedy, "The Merchant of Venice." which will be staged for two nights. On Tuesday and Wednesday, October 3 and 4, "Hamlet" will bo presented, and on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 5, 6 and 7, Shakespeare's comedy "Twelfth Night" will bo .staged. Other plays to bo produced during the season will bo " Romeo and Juliet," "As You Like It" and "Othello." Tho bos plans for "The Merchant of Venice," "Hamlet" and "Twelfth Nisht" will open at Messrs Milner and Thompson's next Thursday morning, at nine o'clock.

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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17282, 25 September 1916, Page 9

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AMUSEMENTS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17282, 25 September 1916, Page 9

AMUSEMENTS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17282, 25 September 1916, Page 9

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