AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 251, 22 October 1924, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

NELLIE BRAMLEY COMPANY. Considerable interest is being: taken in the return visit of the Nellie Bramley Company, wtio will make tlieir appearance at His Majesty's Theatre on- Saturday in a One comedy-drama. "The Misleading- Lady." This is a play with an amusing: plot, plenty of heart interest, and unexpected sidelights on love. It deals with the taming: or a shrew by an up-to-date "cave man," who, althoug-h finding- his path a rough one. manages to get over his difficulties in an enjoyable manner. Miss Nellie Bramley and Mr. Ouy Hasting-s are the central figures, and they get every ounce out or the dramatic and tender moments. A rich comedy part is enacted by Mr. Arthur Cornell. Box plans, at Lewis R. Eady and Son, Ltd., opened to-day. "ASHES OF VENGEANCE." "Ashes or Vengeance," the costly production In which Norma Talmadge, Conway Tearle. Wallace Beery, and a host or others are featured, comes to the National on Friday. The story is laid in the time of Charles IX. or Fiance. Forty-eight massive sets, including one 335 feet long, reproducing the Louvre palace ballroom, and another showing- a whole quarter of the Paris or 1572, were built lor it. Thousands or actors on horseback and afoot, dressed in the van- coloured costumes of the period, take part in the production. AMUSEMENTS GUIDE. Entertainment Announcements see Page 16. OPERA HOUSE —Band-Box Revue Company and Vaudeville. TOWN HALL CONCERT CHAMBER —"A Desert Romance." PICTURE THEATRES. NATIONAL —LIoyd Hamilton and Ben Alexander in "A Seir-made Failure." STRAND —Fred Thomson in "The Dangerous Coward," Mrs. Walter Murdock (Harpist), and Miss Beryl Nettleton and Ballet. HIPPODROME —Eva IS'ovaK and Pauline Stark in "Missing Daughters." LYRlC —Thomas Melg-han in "The Confidence Man," and Corinne Grimth in "Lilies ol' the Field " TIVOLI —HeIm Chadwick in "Love or Women," and Mary Miles Minter in "South of Suva." PRINCESS —MiIdred Harris in "The Shadow 01 , the East," and May McAvoy in "The Forbidden Valley." EVERYBODY'S —Jackie Coogcn in "Long Live the King." GRAND—Anna Q. Kilsson In "Enemies or Children." . QUEEN'S —"Rocks of Valpre," and "Skin Deep." CAPlTOL —Priscillai, Dean in "The Storm Daughter," and Mary Anderson in "Too Much Married." BRITANNIA— "PIeasure Mad," and "The Bad Man." REGENT —Betty Compson in "Woman to Woman." BROADWAY —"South Sea Love." EMPRESS —VioIa Dana in "Rouged Lips," and "The Bad Man." WEST END —"God's Country and the Law," ARCADIA —"The Law Forbids." ALEXANDRA —"Chu Chin Chow." KlNO'S —George Arliss in "The Devil."