ENTERTAINMENTS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 26, 12 November 1935, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS

CONCERT BY MAORI PARTY.

RATANA’S VISIT TO ASHBURTON,

The Maori concert party under* Mr Wiremu Te Ratana, of Wanganui, the celebrated Maori faith healer, which is touring in the South Island, presented a concert programme in St. Andrew’s Hall last evening. There was a good attendance, and the action songs, poi dances, hakas and dances symbolic of "ancient Maori legend and tradition given were enthusiastically received.

The seventeenth anniversary of the founding of the famous Ratana movement, which aims at the betterment of the Maori race, both spiritually and materially, was celebrated last weekend atTuahiwi, and the touring party, which comprised 100 members and came from the north for the celebration, made a brief stay in Ashburton on its way to Temuka, which was reached late last night. Prior to the concert the Ratana Morehu Silver Band paraded in the town and attracted considerable attention.

The programme was as follows: Selection, “Katana,” band; action song, “Kororia,” Roopu; poi dance, “Meadow La«k,” girlsj quartette, “Goblin Man,” Kerei, Huia, Peina and Patu; solo, “Tipiti,” H. Tirikatene; poi dance, “Long Poi,” band boys; comedy aet, “Bonzi, Bonza,” Kapo Pere; action song, “Tena Koutou e nga Iwi,” Roopu; tap dance, W. Waitai; rarotonga, Roopu; selection, “Invercargill,” band; action song, “Pa Te Ti Taha,” Roopu; poi dance, “Poi Patere,” girls; vocal trio, “Haere mai e Ko,” Kerei, Hui and Kopi; poi dance, short poi, boys; action song, “Haere mai Te Toki,” Roopu; patu display, Rongo, Haapu, Rau Homai and Waitai; grand taiaha display, ‘Nga Wa E War,” Roopu; grand hakas, Roopu; action song, “Kurahaupo,” Roopu.

ST. JAMES THEATRE. A new musical feature entitled “Dance Band,” a bright, fast-moving film, guaranteed, to dispel the blues of the most confirmed pessimist, will .; be shown at St. James Theatre tonight. “Buddy” Rogers, who makes his British debut in films, portrays the role of a dance hand leader, in which he is thoroughly at home, as it represents his actual occupation since his withdrawal from American films. The story concerns the adventures of Buddy Morgan, famous dance hand leader, who falls in love with Pat Shelley, herself the leader of a ladies’ band. There are excellent comedy inlavish modernistic settings, dance band spectacle, lots, of lilting music, songs , and specialty turns. MAJESTIC THEATRE Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland are teamed as the grand old married couple of the screen for the ninth time in “People Will Talk,” the new Paramount comedy which comes to the Majestic Theatre to-night and to-morrow night. The pair, who have impersonated the meek husband and domineering wife in such films as “Ruggles of Red Gap,” “The Pursuit of Happiness,” “Six of a Kind,” and half a dozen other comedy successes,'are reunited in a picture that gives them a greater opportunity than ever before to display their particular talent for squeezing the last possible drop of laughter out of every situation.