ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 243, 27 July 1935, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

MAJESTIC THEATRE. \ AVliile “Gold Diggers of 1935,” showing to-night and on Monday night, is funny, there is a serious romance running through the plot, with Dick Powell and Gloria Stuart portraying the lovers. Frank McHugh and Dorothy Dare also have a serio-comic love affair. Incidentally, Glenda Farrell, the only “lady gold digger” in the story, takes Hugh Herbert over Hie hurdles over a piece of change. Powell, a medical student who works as a clerk in a fashionable summer hotel, is engaged by Alive Brady, parsimonious wealthy widow, to escort her daughter, Gloria Stuart, on a round of festivities during the summer, as a regard for Gloria’s promise to marry Hugh Herbert, an eccentric millionaire who iv rites articles about snuff, in the “Fall.”

CINEMA BALL. One of many functions promoted to raise funds in connection with the Queen Carnival, which, in its turn, is to produce funds for the Allenton swimming hath, a cinema ball will be held in the Orange Hall on Monday evening. An energetic committee has had the arrangements in hand, and a very successful ball will be held. A variety of prizes for costumes will be presented, there will he novelty dances, an exhibition of tap-dancing and one of ballroom dancing.