ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10167, 23 July 1924, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

HIS MAJESTY’S THEATRE.

“ LONG ODDS” AND “THE LEATHER PUSHERS.”

As Tony Waters, the heroine’s old father in “Long Odds,” a racing Master picture, Sam Austin is supposed to bo run over by a motor-car while on his way home witli a p&rcel of fried fish. Down in South London on the appointed day, Mr Austin accomplished a perfect fall on the tramlines for the benefit of the camera, whereupon a young fellow, who did not know any better, promptly rushed across the road and picked' him up again ! Mr Austin’s caustic remarks when he found himself on the pavement caused his rescuer to fade away, feeling-anything but the hero he had fancied himself. This film is supported at His Majesty’s Theatre to-night by the first of the series of “ The Leather Pushers productions, featuring events of the boxing ring. “ The Leather Pushers series has earned a high reputation everywhere it has been shown. Ihe executive of the Athletic Club will be the guests of the management tonight.

CHAUTAUQUA. THE JUGO-SLAV*ORCHESTRA. The Jugo-Slav Orchestra will provide the programme for the third session of the 1924 Chautauqua in Ashburton on Monday night next. Commenting on a performance, a Northern critic states; “It was certainly something unique in the musical world, and for that reason alone can he claimed to he of educational value. There is probably nothing more interesting than the study of music peculiar to any nation, and when the nation concerned is a little-known one, the study is the more engrossing. Only a favoured few are, in most cases, privileged to hear the folk songs of a country as sung by the people themselves, and the Chautauqua Association are to he congratulated on having secured tho fine Jugo-Slav Orchestra, which this, year provides one of the most interesting programmes. The handling by the performers of the Tamburica, the national musical instrument which for centuries has been heard in the fields and villages of their native land, is undoubtedly masterly. The Tamburica is a fourstringed instrument played by means of a plectrum, and has a very beautiful tone. What the thoughts of the old bards of Croatia (now; portion of Jugo>Slava), who, centuries ago, crooned their folk songs in villages and on the hillsides to the accompaniment of their ; quaint stringed instruments, would have been had they been told that future generations would travel thousands of miles across the seas with their songs and Tamburicas to entertain a strange people with their art it is difficult to say. That they did so, and very effectively too', is now; a matter of history, and it is indicative of the musical development of the world that overtures from grand opera are included in their repertoire.”