AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1926, Page 11

AMUSEMENTS.

! ■ | PARNELL PICTURES ! The Parnell Picture Show is no\> under new management, being leased by i Mr. McAuley, from Scotland. To-night a specially selected programme will ba i submitted, and will be headed by "Hearts and Spurs." a thrilling Western picture, adapted from the novel. "The Outlaw.'' An augmented orchestra will provide tha , music. | 'THE ONLY WAY." | The National and Lyric Theatres will , present, on Wednesday. June 23, the "double screen and stage"' entertainI ment that has just completed a memorable season at the (irand Opera Housa in Wellington, where packed houses | attended twice daily. The screen sec- ' tion of the "show" released the twelvereel British-made screen masterpiece, Sir John Martin Harvey in "The Only Way," adapted from Charles Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities." and taken from the original stage play in which Sir John Martin Harvey has figured so prominently on the London stage. The picture was made with British capital, and was the effort on the part of Eng- ; land to prove that England could proj duce as attractive a super-film as America. The result has been hailed with delight by the British Press and public. The "sta:re" section of the enJ tertainment is provided by the Sunbeam I Children of Sydney in a juvenile pantoi mime. "The Wedding of Baby Kerr." ! The party comprises some forty young j Australians, from the studio of Miss ■ Frances Scully, teacher of stage daneI ing in Sydney. The same production, it iis stated, was one of the biggest "winI ners" of the llaymarket Theatre in . Sydney and the Tivoli Theatre in Bris- ! bane. There is a team of juvenile aero- , bats, a "beauty"' ballet, and a "baby" . ballet, all appearing in New Zealand for ■ the first time. The principals include , Baby Kerr as the bride, Georgie Foster |as the groom, Stella Lamond as Auntie , Stella, Laurence Foran as Mr. Henpeck, i and Jackie Clark (the Australian ' Jackie Coogan) as best man.