AMUSEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 30, 6 February 1928, Page 10

AMUSEMENTS.

NEW HIPPODROME THEATRE.

«.S ading , •¥ ? rst ' elass vaudeville programme which the management of the Xew Hippodrome Theatre has arranged foi presentation this evening, there will be an entertainment by Ray Marson's popular Boston Dance Band. This will be the first appearance this combination has vet made away from the dance hall, and their reception by merry-makers who know it so one 11 Tbo P l t0 i be a VerV en thusiastic tl?f' l \ s knowu for its music at the dances m the Scots Hall. All the latest in dance hits will be featured. Then tliei e w ill be the appearance of "The 0 r,"?" also be presented for the first time. They will offer a pot pourri entertainment and musical revue Arthur Austin, the well-known comedian," w ill give the evening s entertainment much ot its humour, and Jack Herlitv will be seen m an exhibition of the latest Charleston and other new dance steps. Philip V , c w !jJ off er several song numbers, which will be given with a banjo accompaniment. Richard Talmadge's latest screen production, "The Better Man." will be the headline picture attraction.. In this exciting story the star has pientv of opportunity to display the athletic prowess which has made him so popular- with • fans j. He llas several chances to thrill his audience, and of these he makes the most. The story concerns a young Lnghsh nobleman, who, falling in love takes a position as a butler in the house ot the girl s uncle. The sequence is well maintained, and the theme has a most unusual and interesting climax. Talmadge has a strong supporting cast. On Wednesday both the New Hippodrome and Empress will present a double-feature bill of fare, the two big pictures being "Barbed Wire"' and "The Red Eagle." "Barbeil Wire," which is a Paramount adaptation of Sir Hall Caine's novel "The Woman of Knockaloe," stars Pola Negri and Clive Brook. It is a story of France, and Miss Negri appears as a girl on a farm which is used for a camp for German prisoners, of which Clive Brook appears as one. "The Red Eagle" is Universal's latest vehicle for that popular Western player Jack Hoxie. SWIMMING AT POINT CHEVALIER. Gay with the shouts of merry-makers, gay with music from a Panathrope phone in Dixieland Cabaret, gay with the \ brilliant spotlights which were played from ! the cabaret on to the waters, the small beach in front of Dixieland, at Point Chevalier was crowded last night with no fewer than two thousand merry-makers who had come to bathe.